.NET Rocks!

Chris talks with Carl and Mark about Longhorn, Working at Microsoft, his book with Don Box, his new Windows Forms book, dealing with Printer Margins, passing command-line arguments to auto-deployed applications, linking assemblies, the new Matrix movie, whats new in Ghengis, and answers the age old question "to GAC or not to GAC?"

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Carl and Mark talk to Jorge about how developers think, their approach to problem solving, how Microsoft makes development too easy sometimes, and about how developers think of their role in their companies.

This is a fun interview. We even got to talk about music (Jorge is a bass player) and booze (of course!) in Peru


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Carl caught up with Ingo at the New Orleans Hilton during DevConnections, a conference where they were both speaking. Carl and ingo talk all about .NET Remoting, and Ingo shares some critical insights that come from his experiences with Remoting.

Ingo also talks about the new WSE (Web Service Extentions). Nicolas Landry stops by and talks about his experiences at DevConnections, Java compatibility with SOAP, SmartPhones, and other intersting tidbits.

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Russ talks with us about the Windows Server 2003 and Visual Studio.NET 2003 launch (recorded the same day), what's new in VS.NET 2003, upgrading, and what's new in the New England district

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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 layer, an application updater (using the BITS Background Internet Transfer Service), and a Configuration Manager block for dealing with config files, including code for persisting connection strings.



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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, inline code vs. CodeBehind, and Italian Rock bands. We also learn that Dino has an extreme distaste for barbeque.

Dino shares some topics of some of his best articles, including an ASP.NET control that generates a bar chart with pure html tables. He talks about one of the talks that he'll be doing at DevConnections in which he shows you how to write Plug-ins that users can add into your applications.

He also talked about his new 1000-page book, Programming Microsoft ASP.NET



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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 tips and information here.



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

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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 future, crazy tech-support calls, and other stories.

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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, ViewState, Caching, and the DataGrid control. The DataGrid Girl (www.datagridgirl.com) calls and yaks with Carl, Mark, and Stephen about the ASP.NET DataGrid.



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