The Tablet Show

Carl and Richard talk to Robert Evans about his work helping get Windows 8 applications certified into the Windows Store. The conversation starts out talking about the Windows 8 App Labs, a roving group of Windows 8 professionals and tools that travel from city to city helping developers be successful building Windows 8 applications. Robert then digs into the most common reasons that applications submitted to the Store fail to get certified. This show is a checklist of things you need to take care of to be successful in the Windows Store!

Carl and Richard chat with the ever-prolific Atley Hunter about his Christmas break, where he built 40 Windows 8 applications in less than two weeks! Atley talks about building almost 150 applications in 2012, and the differences between Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 application design. Talk about an inspiration!

Carl and Richard talk to Rey Bango about the state of JavaScript, IE, tablets, Windows 8. Rey talks about the ubiquity of jQuery and how other libraries could have been as dominant, but for whatever reason are not. The conversation also digs into the movement against plug-ins, and whether or not plug-in free is really practical. Rey also discusses the challenges of anti-IE web sites, and how you can change your user agent to discover that many webKit only sites work just fine in IE10.

Carl and Richard talk to Wally McClure about building mobile applications for iPhone and Android using MonoTouch and Mono for Android (respectively). The conversation starts out with Wally's original interest in the Mono tools, being able to leverage his code and skills in C# for mobile development. From there Wally drills into the challenges of tooling across platforms (testing frameworks, etc) as well as dealing with fragmentation of operating systems and SDKs - a bigger issue in Android than iOS, but still an issue.

Carl and Richard talk to Luke Wroblewski about his experiences with mobile UI design. Luke talks about the fundamental changes going on with devices and UIs and how we need to stop thinking about keyboard and mouse interactions, and deal with large screen, small screen and short focus applications.

At the Sunnyvale stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard sat down with Mary Jo Foley to talk about the state of the tablet world. The conversation started out with a discussion about the sudden departure of Steven Sinofsky from Microsoft - good news or bad? Always controversial and outspoken, Mary Jo digs into the rumors and the facts around the changes at Microsoft, how things look for the future and how important the tablet is to Microsoft going forward.

While in Irvine, CA on the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard talked to Paul Sheriff about architecture in a heterogeneous world. The conversation starts out digging into Paul’s long history of building software that can stand the test of time – being able to tolerate changes and add new features without having to do the ‘big rewrite.’ Paul discusses the various patterns of architecture that can handle a diversity of clients as well as the realities of unreliable connectivity and distribution.

While at the San Diego stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard talked to Beth Massi about the latest version of LightSwitch. With LightSwitch HTML Client Preview 2 you can use LightSwitch to build response web apps that scale automatically from smart phone mobile form factor up to full size large screen desktops. LightSwitch is getting more versatile with every update!

While at the Phoenix stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard talked to Shawn Wildermuth about his experiences with PhoneGap. The conversation starts out with a recap of his experiences around developing mobile and tablet applications on iOS, Android as well as WP7, WP8 and Windows 8. Shawn digs into the particulars about building common-source-code projects with GitHub and Adobe's PhoneGap-As-A-Service. He also discusses start-up strategies using PhoneGap as well as native development.

While at the Dallas stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard talked to Miguel Castro about what it takes to redesign applications to be Windows 8 Store style applications. Miguel talks about his experience redesigning UIs and looking at the way applications are going to function in the future. Combined with some great questions from the audience, this show gives you a look at what it takes to get your existing applications working in Windows 8 in the modern app style.