He talks with us about the current blocks available, for ADO.NET and Exception Handling, and also gives us a sneak peek at the next bluebricks coming down the road, including a User Interface facade ...

Dino shares some valuable tips and insights into the innerworkings of ASP.NET security, IIS Impersonation, how VIEWSTATE is encoded, the serialization engine, how to store encrypted values in the registry, ...

Paul talks with Mark and Carl about ASP.NET performance tuning, tips, viewstate info, smart navigation, layout mode and more, and Paul shares some great insights and stories from the field. Lots of great ...

Carl and Mark talk to Andrew about data binding, data adapters, connected and dis-connected models, stored procedures, performance and encapsulation.

Carl and Mark talk with Ethan and Bob about the Good Old Days of the BASIC language, and some of their experiences early on in the first days of the industry, as well as PowerBASIC past, present, and ...

Stephen talks about the International .NET Association (INETA - www.ineta.org), relates his .NET success stories, and talks about design patterns, COM Interop, Performance Anxiety, ASP.NET Forms Authentication, ...

Bill talks with us again picking up where our last conversation with him left off, talking about ADO.NET concurrency, SQL database design, dealing with Data Adapters, and a few other interesting tangents. ...

Mark Dunn is on temporary leave in Redmond, WA this week teaching a beta Architecture class. Scott and Carl chat about .NET, C#, Reflection, Regular Expressions, Freeware, Code Sharing, Config Files, ...

Alan has a lot to say about programming, programmers, and focuses intently on what's wrong with programming as we know it. Why do businesspeople fear programmers? Is the construction of software managed? ...

Michele discusses the differences between programming in Java space vs. .NET from her own first hand experience.

This is the first of a series of shows we are going to do this year highlighting .NET Success Stories; companies that have implemented .NET applications successfully as either pilot projects or production ...

Ken talks about asynchronous calls, events, delegates, the next version of Microsoft Office, printing, C# vs VB.NET, being a control freak, Visual Studio.NET 2003, and training videos.

Carl and Mark talk with Nick about Mobile computing, and how .NET fully supports mobile devices. A surprise phone call from Tim Huckaby forces us to extend this lousy show for an extra half-hour, but ...

Scott talks about the human side of software development, the .NET Pet Shop wars; a now famous head-to-head battle between .NET and Java, and talks about his company, Vertigo Software, and the work that ...

Chris talks with Carl and Mark about COM and .NET components, finalizers, disposing, Smart Client Windows Forms Applications (we still don't know what to call these things), how to navigate sellsbrothers.com, ...

.NET Rocks! went on the road to VS.NET Connections, an awesome .NET developer conference in Orlando, FL that took place October 27-30, 2002. We have two hours of interviews with speakers and attendees, ...

Carl and Mark talk to bill about ADO.NET, DataAdapters, Yukon, Concurrency, JET (Bill Hates Jet), MSDE, DTS, and other critical stuff. This is classic Vaughn!This is also the genesis of the messy hair ...

Carl and Mark talk with Mark Anders about ASP.NET, Framework v1.1, Languages, IIS 6.0, and other great topics. This week we had some celebrity callers: Chris Sells and MSDN Regional Director Stephen ...

Carl and Mark have a great chat with Jonathan Zuck about protecting the free market system from anti-competitive legislation championed by companies that want to use Washington to limit the power and ...

Carl and Mark have an enlightening talk with Juval Löwy about COM+ Enterprise Services, and how they relate to .NET. If you thought Enterprise Services (COM+) was just about Transactions and Object Pooling, ...

This week Carl and Mark interview Billy Hollis, noted speaker and .NET expert. Billy and Rockford Lhotka had the first VB.NET book on the market from Wrox Press. Since then, Billy has taught VB.NET classes ...

This, our second show was recorded live from the Microsoft Offices in Waltham, MA at the montly meeting of the .NET User Group of Greater Boston. Carl and Mark interview Dan Appleman of Desaware, ...

Look out! It's .NET Rocks! In this, the premiere episode, Carl interviews Pat Hynds from Critical Sites, a Sun Partner, IBM Partner, and Microsoft Partner. He shares his insights into .NET and provides ...