Keith and Woody found a bright new voice in the development world while at Codemash 2.0.0.9, RIA Developer John Stockton.  They sat down and discussed networking Silverlight applications.   Thanks to our guest this episode John Stockton is currently a RIA Developer at Ascentium where he builds Silverlight applications for major companies such as Microsoft and T-Mobile. His career has included building web applications for Fortune 500 companies such as GE, NEC, National City Bank and Sherwin Williams as well as government agencies like the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. John has recently been spreading the virtues of Silverlight by presenting at user groups, code camps and most recently the CodeMash conference. Last fall he also co-authored Silverlight 2 in Action with Chad Campbell. John’s blog is http://riathoughts.com/   Show Notes Silverlight 2 in Action book Windows Communication Foundation Developer Center  Download Show

Deep Fried Bytes attended and was a sponsor of the CodeMash 2.0.0.9 event in Sandusky, OH in January 2009. Keith and Woody had a chance to sit down with Mads Torgersen of the C# team at Microsoft to discuss the past, present and future of the C# language.  Thanks to our guest this episode Mads Torgersen is the Language PM for C# at Microsoft. He runs the C# language design meetings, takes the notes, maintains the language specification and that type of language lawyer activity. He also occasionally gets to go out and meet real customers, as well as some of the self-established customer spokespeople that populate events like CodeMash. Before joining Microsoft 3 years ago, Mads was almost a real academic, working as an Associate Professor at a Danish university and doing programming language research. During that time he ran a collaboration with Sun Microsystems to design and implement generic wildcards in Java. Mads blog is http://blogs.msdn.com/madst/   Show Notes Beta Programming Language Self Programming Language C# Language IronPython IronRuby F# Developer Center at MSDN Download Show

Keith and Woody were grateful to get a chance at PDC 2008 to sit down with two experts on Azure SQL Services, Niraj Nagrani and Nigel Ellis. They discussed how this new Microsoft Cloud computing initiative can help developers have better reliability and scalability to store and retrieve their data. Thanks to our guests this episode Niraj Nagrani is a senior product manager with the Microsoft SQL Server Technical Marketing team, where he is responsible for driving positioning, messaging, and evangelism of various features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to the IT pro audience. Nigel Ellis -- SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) Development Manager   Show Notes Azure SQL Services Home Azure Services Training Kit SQL Data Services Team Blog Azure SQL Services Forum SQL Data Services Dev Center Download Show

During PDC 2008, Michael Leworthy of the Windows Server group at Microsoft joined Keith and Woody to talk about what to expect from Windows Server 2008 R2 and discussed how developers have a world of new capabilities with the new server platform such as power management, virtualization and security. Thanks to our guest this episode Michael Leworthy is a Senior Product Manager within the Windows Server division for Windows Server 2008. With over 7 years experience at Microsoft, including 3 years within the Application Platform Division, has enabled him to spend time equally between infrastructure and developer solutions. This has provided a solid understanding of the needs of developers, knowledge workers and IT professionals in organization of all sizes. Michael attended the University of South Australia where he studied both B.Eng in Electrical Engineering and B.Sci in Computer Science.   Show Notes Introduction to Windows Server 2008 R2  Download Show

Keith and Woody found an old friend Dustin Campbell and a new friend Chris Smith at PDC 2008 to sit down and chat about F#, Functional Programming and Chris’ upcoming F# book. Thanks to our guest this episode Chris Smith works as a Software Design Engineer in Test at Microsoft, where he spends his time making sure F# is the most awesome programming language ever. Chris’ blog is http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith Dustin Campbell is a program manager in the Visual Studio Managed Languages group at Microsoft where he works primarily on the Visual Basic IDE experience. Before joining Microsoft, he developed much of the low-level plumbing of the award-winning CodeRush and Refactor! products at Developer Express. A regular speaker, Dustin is a noted authority in many advanced areas of the Microsoft .NET Framework and dives deep “under the hood” of any technology that he works with. Dustin is a language nut. Dustin’s blog is http://diditwith.net/   Show Notes F# at Microsoft Research  Microsoft F# Developer Center Download Show

During PDC 2008, Oliver Sturm joined Keith and Woody to talk about his new book Functional Programming in C# (due in 2009) and discussed how all C# developers have the power of functional programming at their fingertips today. The discussion went so deep there is a code example in the post to illustrate the concepts Oliver discussed. Thanks to our guest this episode Oliver Sturm is an experienced software architect, developer, trainer and author, and a language freak. He also thinks he's a nice guy, but he's prepared to accept other opinions on that. He is a C# MVP and he works for Developer Express as a Technical Evangelist and Lead Program Manager for the Frameworks Division. Oliver’s blog is http://www.sturmnet.org/blog   Code from the interview Func add = (x,y) => x + y; Func> addC2 = delegate(int x) { return delegate (int y) { return x + y; } }; Func> addC = x => y => x + y; var add5 = addC(5); add5(37); Show Notes DX Helmet video CodeRush Xpress for Visual Studio Download Show

Keith and Woody sat down with PreEmptive President Gabriel Torok to discuss the news that Microsoft is including PreEmptive’s Dotfuscator Community Edition in Visual Studio 2010. The guys also discussed how Dotfuscator can be used to assist with Feature Monitoring, Usage Expiry, and Tamper Defense. Thanks to our guest this episode Gabriel Torok is President of PreEmptive Solutions. He is a coauthor of JavaScript Primer Plus and of Java Primer Plus, both published by Macmillan. Gabriel has given talks and tutorials at software development conferences around the world.   Show Notes Dotfuscator Community Edition on MSDN Gabriel’s Channel 9 interview “Feature Monitoring, Usage Expiry and Tamper Defense in Visual Studio 2010” Press Release about Visual Studio 2010 to Include Dotfuscator Community Edition Download Show

In this episode Keith and Woody sit down with Mr. Performance, Rico Mariani, the Chief Architect for Visual Studio at Microsoft.  Rico has been at Microsoft for 20 years.  Before taking on his role as Chief Architect, he spent 5 years working on performance in one capacity or another.  He is a legend when it comes to performance and has an analogy for everything.   Thanks to our guest this episode   Rico Mariani is a Chief Architect for Visual Studio at Microsoft. Rico began his career at Microsoft in 1988, working on language products beginning with Microsoft® C version 6.0, and contributed there until the release of the Microsoft Visual C++® version 5.0 development system. In 1995, Rico became development manager for what was to become the "Sidewalk" project, which started his 7 years of platform work on various MSN technologies. In the summer of 2002, Rico returned to the Developer Division to take a position as Performance Architect on the CLR team. Rico's interests include compilers and language theory, databases, 3-D art, and good fiction. Rico’s blog is http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/   Show Notes Rico’s Channel 9 interview on Writing better, faster code Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications  Download Show

Keith and Woody had the pleasure of meeting the “Overlord” or Program Manager of Windows Azure at PDC Steve Marx. Steve sat down with the guys and discussed what Windows Azure is and what developers need to know about this cloud operating system that will help them with new applications and services in the Cloud. Thanks to our guest this episode Steve Marx is the Program Manager for Windows Azure. Steve's blog is http://blog.smarx.com/   Show Notes Windows Azure Windows Azure Blog Source Code from PDC Steve’s PDC session “Developing and Deploying our First Cloud Service” Download Show

One of the most exciting announcements from PDC was the news about C# 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. With all the excitement and discussion throughout the event about these new developer tools, we reached out to two experts in the fields. Charlie Calvert and Bill Wagner sat down with Keith and Woody to answer some questions and discussed their new books on LINQ and C# . We also have a short talk with Jason McConnell of the Surface team. Thanks to our guests this episode Charlie Calvert is the Community Program Manager for the Microsoft C# team. Working on outreach and bridge building to both external and internal teams through the web and live events, Charlie focuses his technical energies on LINQ. He has a degree in Journalism and Computer Science from the Evergreen State College. The author of ten technical books which have sold well over 100,000 copies, Charlie currently lives in the Seattle area where he enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking and skiing in the mountains. Charlie’s blog is http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie Bill Wagner, co-founder of SRT Solutions, has developed commercial software for the past twenty years, leading the design on many successful engineering and enterprise Microsoft Windows products. He now spends his time facilitating .NET adoption in clients’ product and enterprise development. Bill’s principal strengths include the C# language, the core framework, Smart Clients, and Service Oriented Architecture and design. ? In 2003, Microsoft recognized Bill’s expertise and appointed him Regional Director for Michigan. In 2005, he was re-appointed and also awarded Microsoft C# Most Valuable Professional (MVP) status. A frequent speaker and internationally recognized author, Bill has been a contributing editor, editorial board member and columnist for over a decade. Addison Wesley released his latest book, Effective C#, in 2004. He is a founding member of the Great Lakes .NET User Group and the Ann Arbor .NET Developers Group and actively contributes to the Ann Arbor Computer Society. Bill’s Blog is http://srtsolutions.com/blogs/billwagner/ Jason McConnell is a Surface Product Marketing Manager. He joined Microsoft Corporation in March of 2005 having spent 5 years with Microsoft Australia where he had been a community Developer Evangelist, ISV Developer Evangelist and Technology Specialist. He graduated from Monash University in 1995 and has held positions in the financial industry and the IT services industry prior to joining Microsoft. He enjoys seeing innovative software solutions change the way people work and live – for the better. He loves reading, music, good food, good wine and the company of good friends. Jason’s Blog is http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonmcc/ Show Notes Bill’s Book: More Effective C# Charlie's Book: Essential LINQ Anders Hejlsberg’s PDC recorded session on the future of C# Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP Feedback via Microsoft Connect C# Futures Downloads Charlie’s Blog Post with all the info on C# 4.0 Video: The Power of the Surface SDK Surface Team Blog Download Show