Download Episode (mp3) In this show we answered a listener's question about the 32-bit vs. 64-bit nightmare that developers have to go through when trying to access Excel files from SSIS. And ...

Migrating .NET applications to .NET Core? The Windows Compatibility Pack can help! Carl and Richard talk to Immo Landwerth about the Windows Compatibility Pack, which is a NuGet package of NuGet packages ...

In this 268th episode, AC & CJ recorded a live interview at the SharePoint Fest conference in Seattle, Washington where they covered the latest news in the cloud space.Notes:News Microsoft We are taking ...

What the heck is Twitch, and why would you want to code on it? Carl and Richard talk to Jeff Fritz about his experiences building a TwitchTV livestream for coding with .NET. What started as an experiment ...

We continue our dive into Rob Conery's The Imposter's Handbook as Allen is Allen, Joe is Michael, Michael is Joe.

Windows 10 runs Linux natively! How is that possible? Scott talks to Microsoft's Tara Raj, the Program Manager for the Windows Subsystem for Linux. How does this technology work? Tara explains the internals ...

Sibonay Koo, a PM in the Azure Files team, talks to us about a new service that just went GA - Azure File Sync. She gives us use-cases for using the new service as well as tips and tricks for getting ...

How should developers get started with Azure? Carl and Richard talk to Adam Cogan about his nine knights of Azure - in order, a set of services in Azure that developers should start with. Right off the ...

In this 267th episode, AC and CJ catch up on some cloud news before discussing the state of app development with Azure AD.Notes:News Microsoft The Microsoft AI Idea Challenge – Breakthrough Ideas ...

Xamarin keeps evolving - are you using the latest? Carl and Richard talk to James Montemagno about his on-going work making life easier for Xamarin developers. The conversation starts out referencing ...

Principal PM Alex Uy gives us the inside scoop into the Azure FastTrack program that helps companies move their workloads to Azure with support from the Engineering teams.  Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode242.mp3 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/programs/azure-fasttrack   Other ...

Laura Frank Tacho is the Director of Engineering at CloudBees and has been working with Docker almost since its inception. She shares her experiences in running teams that constantly rely on and deploy ...

Download Episode (mp3) In this show, we talk about: How to Fix Orphaned DB Users Easily SSMS Auto-Recovery Feature Multi-Tenant Database Challenges Your DR Plan isn’t a Plan And much ...

Can Artificial Intelligence help protect the Earth? Jennifer Marsman says yes! Carl and Richard talk to Jennifer about her new role working with Microsoft Research on implementing machine learning systems ...

In this 266th episode, AC & CJ catch up on the latest cloud news after both hosts have been away traveling for the last three weeks. We cover the latest news in Azure CosmosDB, GCP and Microsoft related ...

How are applications being built for Hololens? While on the Modern Web Tour in Munich, Richard chatted with Jimmy Engstrom about his work building software for Hololens. The conversation starts out with ...

Joe's voice sounds funny, Allen has a theme, and Michael pours one out for Media Play as Michael's and Allen's impersonation of Joe is on point (#NailedIt).

On this episode Jen Looper and Diana Rodriguez discuss Vue Vixens an organization of people who identify as women and who want to learn Vue.js to make websites and mobile apps. Jen and Diana share their ...

Ben Wheeler teaches tech to kids ages 4 to 104. He talks to Scott about how to effectively teach technology, as well as the importance of social context around tech. Everyone's journey to tech is different. ...

Back at the beginning of WPF, before Silverlight, there was MVVM Light. While on the Modern Web Tour in Zurich, Richard sat down with Laurent Bugnion to talk about his work creating the open source toolkit ...

Deep Kapur, a Microsoft PM on the Azure team, gives us an great refresher on Service Fabric and breaks down the new Service Fabric Mesh offering for us.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode241.mp3 Some ...

Ready to add UX to your skills? While in Berlin at the Telerik Modern Web Tour, Richard interviews Jessica Engstrom on how developers can add UX skills to their repertoire. Sure, it would be nice to ...

Gautam Shah, an Azure Architect with Applied Information Sciences, talks to use about how Azure Automation can be used in Enterprises to automate almost anything.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode240.mp3 My ...

Julia Evans has been making comics and zines for years. You've likely learned "How to be a wizard programmer" from one of Julia's comics. She's a software developer at Stripe in her day job and on this ...

So many ways to build mobile apps - what works best for you? Carl and Richard talk to Matt Netkow about the past, present and future of PhoneGap and how the Progressive Web App is playing in the mobile ...