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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

Keith and Woody grabbed a few other podcasters to have a roundtable discussion on the last day of Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in October 2008. The discussion was very lively and after you listen to this first part head over to the Herding Code podcast to listen to the conclusion of the discussion from PDC.   Thanks to our guests this episode Jeff Atwood lives near Berkeley, CA with his wife, two cats, and far more computers than he cares to mention. He's been a Microsoft Windows developer since 1992. His blog is http://codinghorror.com. His podcast is http://blog.stackoverflow.com/ Kevin Dente is a software developer at Global 360, an enterprise BPM vendor. He lives in Oakland, California, with his fabulous wife (who is a top notch web designer) and adorable daughter (not that I'm biased or anything). His blog is http://weblogs.asp.net/kdente Jon Galloway is an ASP.NET developer living in California. He writes about ASP.NET, software development and other geeky stuff on his blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/. Scott Koon has been programming professionally since about 1995. By day he work mainly in the .NET space, and by night he is an experimenter. He considers the ability of a developer to communicate with other developers and customers a high priority; which is why Scott first started keeping an online journal back in 1998. His blog is http://www.lazycoder.com/weblog/ Download Show

Keith and Woody wrap up their talk with Linux developer, open source advocate and law student Luis Villa who was an early developer of Gnome to discuss Gnome, the Open Source community and even about intellectual property and the law. Thanks to our guest this episode Luis is a law student at Columbia Law School. His studies focus on the overlap of law and technology, including intellectual property, telecommunications, privacy, and e-commerce, and outside of class he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Law School Science and Technology Law Review. Before school, he spent a year at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center as 'geek in residence', working on a variety of projects, including StopBadware.org and the h2o educational web software project. Prior to that, he was at Ximian and Novell, managing and working on Linux-based desktop projects with global teams, including the Evolution PIM, the GNOME 2.0 release (in collaboration with Sun), and the Ximian and Novell Linux Desktops. Outside of law school, Luis remains involved in software, serving on the GNOME Foundation's Board of Directors. Luis's undergraduate education was at Duke University, where he majored in political science and computer science. While at Duke, Luis attended over one hundred basketball games while wearing a devil mask, and co-authored Extreme Mindstorms: An Advanced Guide To Lego Mindstorms. Undergrad is Computer Science. Got started in computers in '85.  Started off as double major in Political Science in Mechanical Engineering.  Was a programming class as part of engineering, and thought it was more fun.  A guy down the hallway installed Linux on his machine, and started finding out about Linux stuff.  This was during the heated MSFT case and talk about Microsoft as a monopolist.  He was interested in the alternative.  One night he was writing a one page paper, word crashed eight or ten times. Luis’ blog is http://tieguy.org/blog/ Show Notes Gnome Foundation Open Source Licenses mentioned in show: General Public License 3.0 BSD Microsoft Public License (ms-Pl)  Apache Affero General Public License Apple Public Source License Apple’s use of UNIX Open Source at Microsoft Miguel de Icaza Nat Friedman Keith’s story about buying iTunes music legally Download Show

Keith and Woody sit down with Linux developer, open source advocate and law student Luis Villa who was an early developer of Gnome to discuss Gnome, the Open Source community and even about intellectual property and the law. Thanks to our guest this episode Luis is a law student at Columbia Law School. His studies focus on the overlap of law and technology, including intellectual property, telecommunications, privacy, and e-commerce, and outside of class he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Law School Science and Technology Law Review. Before school, he spent a year at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center as 'geek in residence', working on a variety of projects, including StopBadware.org and the h2o educational web software project. Prior to that, he was at Ximian and Novell, managing and working on Linux-based desktop projects with global teams, including the Evolution PIM, the GNOME 2.0 release (in collaboration with Sun), and the Ximian and Novell Linux Desktops. Outside of law school, Luis remains involved in software, serving on the GNOME Foundation's Board of Directors. Luis's undergraduate education was at Duke University, where he majored in political science and computer science. While at Duke, Luis attended over one hundred basketball games while wearing a devil mask, and co-authored Extreme Mindstorms: An Advanced Guide To Lego Mindstorms. Undergrad is Computer Science. Got started in computers in '85.  Started off as double major in Political Science in Mechanical Engineering.  Was a programming class as part of engineering, and thought it was more fun.  A guy down the hallway installed Linux on his machine, and started finding out about Linux stuff.  This was during the heated MSFT case and talk about Microsoft as a monopolist.  He was interested in the alternative.  One night he was writing a one page paper, word crashed eight or ten times. Luis’ blog is http://tieguy.org/blog/ Download Show

Sara grew up in traditional software practices, but for over a year she’s been working on a team at Microsoft that uses Agile practices.  Keith and Woody sit down with Sara to discuss what she’s doing with the proceeds of her new book, a great story, as well as how she’s adjusted to Agile ways over the past year. Thanks to our guest this episode Sara Ford is the Program Manager for CodePlex, Microsoft’s open source project hosting site. Prior to joining CodePlex, she worked 6 years on the Visual Studio Core Team. Her roles on the Visual Studio Core Team included running the Power Toys for Visual Studio as open source projects on CodePlex, testing the Visual Studio environment, and driving the effort to make Visual Studio 2005 accessible to developers who are blind or have low-vision. She continues to run the Visual Studio Tip of the Day on her blog. Sara’s blog is http://saraford.net/   All proceeds from Sara’s book go to support residents of Hurricane Katrina.  Buy a copy today: Download Show

The latest version of the .Net Framework includes a technology called LINQ.  Developers are digging their teeth into it and Deep Fried Bytes is here to help with them work out the KINQs in LINQ.  Keith and Woody sit down with Jim Wooley and discuss the truths, gotchas and a few rusty washers about LINQ. Thanks to our guest this episode Jim is a Microsoft MVP and has been working with .Net since the initial PDC bits in 2000, releasing his first application 1 week before the .Net 1.0 go-live. He has been active evangelizing LINQ since it's announcement in 2005. Jim is actively involved in the Atlanta developer community and is a frequent speaker. He is a co-author of the recently released “LINQ in Action” http://linqinaction.net/. Jim's blog is http://www.thinqlinq.com   Show Notes geekSpeak recording: LINQ Migration Strategies with Jim Wooley  Download Show

Even the best developers on the planet have concerns about how fast new technology is being released and the impact it is having on today’s developers.  Do you feel overwhelmed and are afraid that you are getting behind learning new Microsoft technologies like WPF, WCF, WF and Silverlight?  Keith and Woody sat down with Billy Hollis and had a therapy session to get down to why and how we can cope with learning these new technologies. Thanks to our guest this episode Billy Hollis has authored and co-authored many books, including the first  book ever published on Visual Basic .NET and many other .NET oriented books. He's a frequent speaker at industry events like TechEd, Professional Developer Conference (PDC), VSLive, VSConnections, Patterns and Practices Summit, and many others. Billy is a member of the Microsoft Regional Directors, a group of third party luminaries that Microsoft recognizes as having the highest level of expertise in Microsoft technologies. Billy was selected as Regional Director of the Year in 2001. Billy is also a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) in Visual Basic. Billy is one of the original members of the INETA speakers bureau. INETA is the International .NET Association of user groups. Through INETA, Billy speaks to user groups all over the country. Billy was selected as a Software Legend in 2002. Billy’s website is at http://www.dotnetmasters.com/   Show Notes Billy’s DNRTV episode Download Show

Home server is an exciting consumer based product that is intended to be a solution for homes with multiple connected PCs to offer file sharing, automated backups, and remote access.  Keith and Woody sit down with Jonas Svensson and Brendan Grant of the Home Server team to discuss the product and new Power Pack 1 release. Developers will also learn how to create Home Server plugins. Thanks to our guests this episode Jonas Svensson, Community Program Manager, is responsible for the customer connection, beta and support interactions for the Windows Home Server team.  As an Community PM, he works with end users, program managers, testers and developers to improve the community and support experiences   Prior to his current role, Jonas was a Supportability Program Manager and Escalation Engineer in the Consumer Windows Support Organization. Brendan Grant, Software Development Engineer recently joined the team because of his external experience with the extensibility model of Home Server after releasing several add-ins for it and currently works on expanding the extensibility story around Windows Home Server. Previous to joining the team and Microsoft Brendan worked for an electronics firm in South Dakota specializing in digital television. http://blogs.msdn.com/brendangrant   Show Notes Microsoft Home Server HP MediaSmart Server KeepVault Microsoft Windows Home Server 32 Bit 1 Pack - OEM List of Home Server Add-ins Technical Briefs Backup Drive Extender Remote Access Home Networking Home Server History Microsoft ‘Quattro’: Fourth time’s the charm DHCP4WHS Web Folders 4 WHS Add-in Templates C# VB.NET Download Show

At DevLink 2008 Keith and Woody sat down with Joe Stagner to discuss security best practices for software developers.  Along the way many different ideas and topics came up like comparing a security development expert to a professional prize fighter.  Listen as Joe relates how his IT law enforcement background helped him build his vision of keeping the Bad Hackers out of  applications and systems. Thanks to our guest this episode   Joe Stagner, Microsoft’s Opinionated Misfit Geek,  joined Microsoft in 2001 as an ISV Development Technical Advisor and is now a Senior Program Manager on the Developer Tools & Platforms Team. His development experiences have afforded him the opportunity to create commercial software applications across a wide diversity of technical platforms from Mainframes, through UNIX and Linux, to Microsoft Technologies on the Intel and Mobile computing platforms. In recent years, Joe has been focused on Highly-Performant, Geoscalable web application architectures, multi-platform interoperability (especially PHP) and writing secure code. Joe's blog is at www.MisfitGeek.com   Show Notes www.securedeveloper.com Jason "The Trooper" Bonacorsi FightingSkills.com ASP.net Microsoft Connect Download Show

Now that Silverlight 2 is at the Olympics and making a big splash, we wanted to explore this fascinating technology more. Microsoft Silverlight 2 is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.  Keith and Woody wrap up their conversation with Shawn Wildermuth about the past, present and future of Silverlight 2 and get into some of the truths about this exciting technology. Thanks to our guest this episode Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), MCSD.NET and is the founder of Wildermuth Consulting Services, LLC, a company that is dedicated to delivering architecture, mentoring and software solutions in the Atlanta, Georgia area.  He is also a speaker on the INETA Speaker’s Bureau and has appeared at several national conferences to speak on a variety of subjects.  He is currently teaching Silverlight across the country during his Silverlight Tour (http://www.silverlight-tour.com). Shawn is also the author of several books including the book "Pragmatic ADO.NET" for Addison-Wesley, and is also the co-author of four Microsoft Certification Training Kits for MS Press, as well as the upcoming book, “Prescriptive Data Architectures”. He has been writing articles for a number of years for a variety of magazines and websites, including MSDN, MSDN Online, DevSource, InformIT, Windows IT Pro, The ServerSide .NET, ONDotNet.com and Intel’s Rich Client Series. Shawn has enjoyed building data-driven software for more than twenty years. He can be reached at his website at http://www.wildermuthconsulting.com. Shawn's blog is at http://wildermuth.com   Show Notes Silverlight Adobe Flash Adobe Flex Adobe AIR Mono Project MonoDevelop IDE XBAP Click-Once Deployment  PlayReady DRM ADO.NET Data Services Summer Olympics on Silverlight 2 Download Show

Now that Silverlight 2 is at the Olympics and making a big splash, we wanted to explore this fascinating technology more. Microsoft Silverlight 2 is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.  Keith and Woody sit down with Shawn Wildermuth about the past, present and future of Silverlight 2 and get into some of the truths about this exciting technology. Thanks to our guest this episode Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), MCSD.NET and is the founder of Wildermuth Consulting Services, LLC, a company that is dedicated to delivering architecture, mentoring and software solutions in the Atlanta, Georgia area.  He is also a speaker on the INETA Speaker’s Bureau and has appeared at several national conferences to speak on a variety of subjects.  He is currently teaching Silverlight across the country during his Silverlight Tour (http://www.silverlight-tour.com). Shawn is also the author of several books including the book "Pragmatic ADO.NET" for Addison-Wesley, and is also the co-author of four Microsoft Certification Training Kits for MS Press, as well as the upcoming book, “Prescriptive Data Architectures”.  He has been writing articles for a number of years for a variety of magazines and websites, including MSDN, MSDN Online, DevSource, InformIT, Windows IT Pro, The ServerSide .NET, ONDotNet.com and Intel’s Rich Client Series. Shawn has enjoyed building data-driven software for more than twenty years. He can be reached at his website at http://www.wildermuthconsulting.com. Shawn's blog is at http://wildermuth.com   Show Notes Silverlight Adobe Flash Adobe Flex Adobe AIR Mono Project MonoDevelop IDE XBAP Click-Once Deployment  PlayReady DRM ADO.NET Data Services Summer Olympics on Silverlight 2 Download Show

Learn how the Microsoft.com operations team meets the demands for one of the top 5 websites on the Internet today.  The team supports the server product teams at Microsoft by "dogfooding" products such as Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and IIS7 years before being released to customers.  Keith and Woody sit down with Brad LeRoss and Jim Dobbin of the MSCOM team discuss the Microsoft.com architecture and infrastructure, history of the team, the process of content delivery and a few funny stories. Thanks to our guests this episode   Brad LeRoss, Group Manager, runs a team of database engineers that are responsible for the database systems that run Microsoft.com. He and his team provide architectural guidance, drive operational efficiencies, deploy, and support database solutions. His team also strives to showcase Microsoft’s database platform and solutions for customers, and other operations teams. Prior to his current role, Brad worked in Microsoft Services to ensure SQL Server training and readiness content was available for the Microsoft field. Before that Brad worked as a database administrator supporting Microsoft’s internal IT systems. Brad joined Microsoft in 1996 and has experience with all versions of Microsoft SQL Server in enterprise environments. Jim Dobbin is the manager of the Microsoft.com Operations Debug Team supporting the various sites that make up Microsoft.com.  He has been at Microsoft since 1998.  Prior to working with MSCOM operations he worked on Microsoft’s PSS Critical Problem Resolution team as an Escalation Engineer.   Show Notes TechNet: Resources for IT Professional Microsoft.com Engineering Operations Team Microsoft.com Operations Blog Microsoft.com Operations Performance Analysis of IIS 7.0/Windows Server 2008 The Tasty Morsels Found In Dogfood… MSCOM OPS Top 10 Changes In IIS7.0 Hyper-V IIS 7 Windows Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 Download Show