.NET Rocks!

By Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell

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Migrating WCF and More to ....

02.25.2021

Do you have apps that need to move to .NET 5? Carl and Richard talk to Mark Rendle about his work on Visual Recode, which started out as a migration tool for WCF to gRPC, but has evolved to deal ...

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02.25.2021 Migrating WCF and More to .NET 5 with Mark Rendle Do you have apps that need to move to .NET 5? Carl and Richard talk to Mark Rendle about his work on Visual Recode, which started out as a migration tool for WCF to gRPC, but has evolved to deal ...
02.18.2021 Building Teams Apps with Hilton Giesenow Teams is extensible - wanna write some code? Carl and Richard talk to Hilton Giesenow about his work building Teams extensions - and there are a lot of options! The conversation starts out focusing on what Teams can do for ...
02.11.2021 A Very Serious Bot with Phil Haack Can a chatbot make your team development process better? Carl and Richard talk to Phil Haack about his work building Ab.bot, a chatbot designed to work in Slack and Discord to help with building software - call it ChatOps - ...
02.04.2021 Blazor Static Web Apps with Jeff Fritz What's a Blazor Static Web App, and why should you care? Carl and Richard talk to Jeff Fritz about how the new Azure Static Web App service can be combined with Blazor to do dynamic things on the client, without ...
01.28.2021 Entity Framework Core 5 with Julie Lerman What's new in Entity Framework Core 5? Carl and Richard chat with Julie Lerman about the latest in EF Core, stories from the trenches of data development and more! Julie talks about there not being an EF Core 4 (to ...
01.21.2021 Containers on Azure with Tom Kerkhove How many ways can you run containers on Azure? Carl and Richard talk to Tom Kerkhove about his experiences working with Azure container solutions. The conversation starts out talking about Azure Functions, which under-the-hood are handled in containers - but ...
01.14.2021 IdentityServer Update with Dominick Baier and Brock Allen Time for an Identity Server update! Carl and Richard talk to Dominick Baier and Brock Allen about Identity Server. The conversation starts out focused on the evolution of security over the internet in the first place, including an update to ...
01.07.2021 The State of Security in the Octoverse with Maya Kaczorowski How secure is your software? Carl and Richard talk to Maya Kaczorowski of GitHub about The State of the Octoverse Security Report - one of three annual reports coming from GitHub about how software is being built. Maya talks about ...
12.31.2020 Geek Out 2020 Happy New Year! To ring in the New Year, Carl and Richard talk Geek Out for a couple of hours! Topics include the Pandemic, Renewable Energy, the latest in Space and Electric Cars. Yeah, that's right, all the hits in ...
12.24.2020 .NET 5 with Scott Hunter .NET 5 is shipped! What happens now? As part of the .BLD() Tech Talks XXL event in the Netherlands, Carl and Richard streamed interviewing Scott Hunter about .NET 5. The conversation turns to how the scope of .NET 5 focused ...
12.17.2020 Building a Flight Simulator in C# with Laura Laban What does it take to make a flight simulator in C#? On a smartphone? Carl and Richard talk to Laura Laban about her experiences building Infinite Flight - starting with the Windows Phone in 2011! The conversation follows the history ...
12.10.2020 Building a TwitchBot in Blazor with Georgia Nelson What can you use Blazor for? Carl and Richard talk to Georgia Nelson about GifBot, a Twitch bot Georgia has built using a variety of tools and languages (including Java) and today is C# and Blazor. Georgia talks about evolving ...
12.03.2020 NUKE 5.0 with Matthias Koch With a new version of .NET out, it's time for a new version of Nuke! Carl and Richard talk to Matthias Koch about Nuke V5 - synchronizing the version number of Nuke with the version of .NET. Matthias talks about ...
11.26.2020 Hello World the Film with Shawn Wildermuth Ever pivoted halfway through a software project? It happens in filmmaking too! Carl and Richard talk to Shawn Wildermuth about his experience making Hello World the Film. Shawn talks about starting out wanting to make a love story about being ...
11.19.2020 The Microsoft Open Source Sandbox with Aaron Stannard Can you make open source projects in the Microsoft ecosystem and live to tell the tale? Carl and Richard talk to Aaron Stannard about his view of the Microsoft open-source ecosystem, including the challenges of building and maintaining Akka.NET. Aaron ...
11.12.2020 The ROI of Good UX Design with Billy Hollis Good user interface design makes your company money! Carl and Richard talk to Billy Hollis about his latest work around understanding the return on investment that exists with user interface design. Billy talks about a spreadsheet he's been using in ...
11.05.2020 Cake 1.0 with Mattias Karlsson Cake is shipping! Carl and Richard talk to Mattias Karlsson about Cake, aka C# Make. First on the show in 2016, Cake has been through a lot - all the twists and turns of .NET Core, becoming a cross-platform product ...
10.29.2020 The Business Case of AI and Data Science with Joel Hulen and Kyle Bunting Everyone wants AI - but where's the business value? Carl and Richard talk to Joel Hulen and Kyle Bunting about building machine learning models and what they can do for business. The conversation starts out with the typical AI-destroys-the-world debate, ...
10.22.2020 The .NET Foundation Evolves with Layla Porter A new .NET Foundation board is elected - what does it mean for you? Carl and Richard talk to Layla Porter about her new role on the .NET Foundation board and the goals of the foundation to grow its membership, ...
10.15.2020 Migrating .NET Applications to Azure with Mike Richter The pandemic is sending a lot of work to the cloud - are you ready to move? Carl and Richard talk to Mike Richter about his work helping companies move .NET applications into the cloud. Mike starts out with the ...
10.08.2020 GitHub Codespaces with Anthony van der Hoorn Can a development environment be online? Carl and Richard talk to Anthony van der Hoorn about GitHub Codespaces - the consolidation of a number of online development solutions from Microsoft including Visual Studio Online. Anthony talks about unifying the online ...
10.01.2020 When Your Experiment Gets Popular with Jamie Rees What happens when an open-source experiment becomes software people care about? Carl and Richard talk to Jamie Rees about his experiences creating Ombi - an open-source project that helps people managing Plex servers to handle requests from friends and family ...
09.24.2020 Learning Dapr with Haishi Bai Build better distributed apps with Dapr! Carl and Richard talk to Haishi Bai about his work on Dapr, the open-source framework for building microservices with an event-driven, portable runtime. Haishi talks about the challenges of building modern distributed apps, with ...
09.17.2020 Machine Learning in 2020 with Zoiner Tejada Machine Learning has been around for years, what does it look like today? Carl and Richard chat with Zoiner Tejada about how he approaches machine learning today, starting with a focus on data. The bulk of the work for using ...
09.10.2020 Starting with Xamarin with Theodora Tataru What do you do when COVID-19 cancels your internship? Write an app! Carl and Richard talk to Theodora Tataru about her experience creating an application using Xamarin to help with tracker her college grades. Theodora talks about learning the tools, ...
09.03.2020 The Microsoft 365 APIs with Glenn Block What are the Microsoft 365 APIs and what can you do with them? Carl and Richard chat with Glenn Block about his new role at Microsoft, working with Graph. Glenn talks about how Graph actually serves are a part of ...
08.27.2020 Building Serverless .NET Apps on AWS with Robb Schiefer Sure you can build .NET apps on Azure - but what about Amazon AWS? Carl and Richard talk to Robb Schiefer about his work building .NET Apps on AWS. Robb digs into the various reasons you might use AWS, while ...
08.20.2020 F# Update with Philip Carter F# turns five - not five years old (it's more than ten years old!) - but version five! Carl and Richard talk to Phillip Carter from the F# team about what's coming in F# 5. Phillip talks about the past ...
08.13.2020 Show 1700! It's Show 1700! For a bit of fun, Carl and Richard invited the six most frequent guests on .NET Rocks over the past eighteen years - Michele Bustamante, Rocky Lhotka, Billy Hollis, Kathleen Dollard, Tim Huckaby, and Phil Haack. The ...
08.06.2020 Adding Identity to Your Applications with Christos Matskas and John Patrick Dandison What is the right way to secure your applications? Carl and Richard talk to Christos Matskas and John Patrick Dandison about the various security offerings made by Microsoft for application developers. Christos and JD talk about Azure Active Directory B2C ...
07.30.2020 OpenSilver with Giovanni Albani Got Silverlight apps? Carl and Richard talk to Giovanni Albani about the OpenSilver project - building an open-source version of Silverlight that runs without a plugin, using WebAssembly. Giovanni talks about companies he has communicate with that have Silverlight apps ...
07.23.2020 The Open Source Ecosystem, .NET Foundation, and Microsoft with Sebastien Lambla Grenades with love! Carl and Richard talk to Sebastien Lambla about the state of the .NET open source ecosystem today, the role that Microsoft plays in it, and what the .NET Foundation could do in the future! Seb talks about ...
07.16.2020 C# 9 with Mads Torgersen What's coming in C# 9? Carl and Richard talk to the Mads Torgersen, the leader of the C# team, about the rapidly approaching C# 9. Mads explains that with .NET 5 coming in the fall, he felt there should be ...
07.09.2020 ASP.NET Core API Endpoints with Steve Smith Ready to simplify and organize your MVC app? Carl and Richard talk to Steve Smith about his open-source project called ASP.NET Core API Endpoints. Steve digs into the problems around the controller part of MVC - as a project gets ...
07.02.2020 Testing using nDepend with Patrick Smacchia How do you do static testing in your applications? Carl and Richard talk to Patrick Smacchia of nDepend - one of the original testing products for .NET, stretching back to the very beginning! Patrick talks about how nDepend has grown ...
06.25.2020 Elements Mercury with Marc Hoffman Are there alternative versions of VB.NET? Soon! Carl and Richard talk to Marc Hoffman of RemObjects Software about Elements, their cross-platform compiler for Oxygene (Object Pascal), C#, Java, Swift, Go and soon, VB.NET. Marc discusses the relationship between platforms and ...
06.18.2020 .NET Multi-Platform App UI with Scott Hunter Ready to go to Maui? Carl and Richard talk to Scott Hunter about the .NET Multi-Platform App UI or MAUI for short. Scott talks about how the next versions of .NET are focused on unifying the elements that go into ...
06.11.2020 The State of VB.NET with Kathleen Dollard Is VB.NET dead? Kathleen Dollard says No! Carl and Richard talk to Kathleen about a recent blog post from Microsoft about VB.NET not coming to .NET 5. Kathleen talks through the decision-making process that led to the blog post - ...
06.04.2020 Testing Blazor Apps with Egil Hansen How do you test your Blazor app? Carl and Richard talk to Egil Hansen about bUnit, an open-source testing framework designed to work with Blazor - both the server-side Razor components and the WebAssembly client. Egil talks about building bUnit ...
05.28.2020 Building Apps using Uno with Kenzie Whalen What's your cross-platform development solution? Carl and Richard talk to Kenzie Whalen about the Uno Platform, where you write C# and XAML for Windows and are able to deploy via Xamarin to iOS and Android... and to browsers via WebAssembly ...
05.21.2020 APIs in the 2020s Panel How are shared APIs evolving in the new decade? From the online version of NDC Porto, Carl and Richard chatted with panelists Shawn Wildermuth, Irina Scurtu, and Heather Downing about the right things to do around APIs. Are you just ...
05.14.2020 Chocolatey with Rob Reynolds Time for some chocolatey goodness! After seven years, Rob Reynolds is back chatting with Carl and Richard about the Windows application package manager that you want to use! Since the last show in 2013, Chocolatey has grown up, become a ...
05.07.2020 AFWerx Challenge with Heather Wilde Ready for a challenge? Carl and Richard talk to Heather Wilde about her work with the Air Force on innovation projects called AFWerx. Heather talks about the different kinds of projects that the Air Force is interested in, and how ...
04.30.2020 There is a Silver Bullet with Mark Seemann Are there Silver Bullets in Development? Carl and Richard chat with Mark Seemann about the 1986 Fred Brooks essay No Silver Bullet. Mark argues that there are silver bullets - but do we notice them? The conversation dives into technology ...
04.23.2020 Versioning in a Pandemic with Jon Skeet Jon Skeet is the first show recorded since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared - so its pretty far ranging! Carl and Richard discuss Carl's recovery from the virus, and then chat with Jon about what life is like for him ...
04.16.2020 CSLA .NET Version 5.1.0 with Rocky Lhotka What's up with CSLA? Carl and Richard talk to Rocky Lhotka about his ubiquitous framework for managing business rules and user interfaces. Rocky talks about the latest version with support for Blazor, along with many other popular UI solutions including ...
04.16.2020 CSLA .NET Version 5.1.0 with Rocky Lhotka What's up with CSLA? Carl and Richard talk to Rocky Lhotka about his ubiquitous framework for managing business rules and user interfaces. Rocky talks about the latest version with support for Blazor, along with many other popular UI solutions including ...
04.09.2020 Azure for Government with Vishwas Lele Did you know there is a separate Azure for government? Carl and Richard talk to Vishwas Lele about his work with Azure Government, specifically the version for the US Government. Vishwas explains that there are a number of data centers ...
04.02.2020 jQuery is Obsolete with Chris Love Still using jQuery? Chris Love asks why! Carl and Richard chat with Chris Love about modern web development; and the fact that what jQuery does today is largely built into JavaScript. Chris talks about the state of JavaScript back in ...
03.26.2020 GitHub Actions with Enrico Campidoglio What are GitHub Actions, and why should you care? Carl and Richard talk to Enrico Campidoglio about how GitHub evolves under Microsoft and the addition of GitHub Actions to expand CI/CD capabilities directly in GitHub. Enrico talks about how typically ...

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.NET Rocks! episodes:

Migrating WCF and More to .NET 5 with Mark Rendle

Building Teams Apps with Hilton Giesenow

A Very Serious Bot with Phil Haack

Blazor Static Web Apps with Jeff Fritz

Entity Framework Core 5 with Julie Lerman

Containers on Azure with Tom Kerkhove

IdentityServer Update with Dominick Baier and Brock Allen

The State of Security in the Octoverse with Maya Kaczorowski

Geek Out 2020

.NET 5 with Scott Hunter

Building a Flight Simulator in C# with Laura Laban

Building a TwitchBot in Blazor with Georgia Nelson

NUKE 5.0 with Matthias Koch

Hello World the Film with Shawn Wildermuth

The Microsoft Open Source Sandbox with Aaron Stannard

The ROI of Good UX Design with Billy Hollis

Cake 1.0 with Mattias Karlsson

The Business Case of AI and Data Science with Joel Hulen and Kyle Bunting

The .NET Foundation Evolves with Layla Porter

Migrating .NET Applications to Azure with Mike Richter

GitHub Codespaces with Anthony van der Hoorn

When Your Experiment Gets Popular with Jamie Rees

Learning Dapr with Haishi Bai

Machine Learning in 2020 with Zoiner Tejada

Starting with Xamarin with Theodora Tataru

The Microsoft 365 APIs with Glenn Block

Building Serverless .NET Apps on AWS with Robb Schiefer

F# Update with Philip Carter

Show 1700!

Adding Identity to Your Applications with Christos Matskas and John Patrick Dandison

OpenSilver with Giovanni Albani

The Open Source Ecosystem, .NET Foundation, and Microsoft with Sebastien Lambla

C# 9 with Mads Torgersen

ASP.NET Core API Endpoints with Steve Smith

Testing using nDepend with Patrick Smacchia

Elements Mercury with Marc Hoffman

.NET Multi-Platform App UI with Scott Hunter

The State of VB.NET with Kathleen Dollard

Testing Blazor Apps with Egil Hansen

Building Apps using Uno with Kenzie Whalen

APIs in the 2020s Panel

Chocolatey with Rob Reynolds

AFWerx Challenge with Heather Wilde

There is a Silver Bullet with Mark Seemann

Versioning in a Pandemic with Jon Skeet

CSLA .NET Version 5.1.0 with Rocky Lhotka

CSLA .NET Version 5.1.0 with Rocky Lhotka

Azure for Government with Vishwas Lele

jQuery is Obsolete with Chris Love

GitHub Actions with Enrico Campidoglio

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