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In this episode, Keith and Woody sit down with Kevin Pilch-Bisson to discuss Roslyn, the codename for the new C# and VB compilers coming to .NET. Thanks to our guest this episode Kevin Pilch-Bisson is a development lead at Microsoft. He leads the team responsible for the Visual Studio integration of C# and Visual Basic in Roslyn. Before working on Roslyn he was on the C# IDE team for over 8 years working on features like IntelliSense, Colorization, Refactoring, and Formatting. Prior to joining Microsoft, Kevin earned a computer engineering degree at the University of Waterloo. Outside of work, he has a beautiful wife and three children, and enjoys running. Kevin can be found on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/pilchie Show Notes Introducing the Microsoft “Roslyn” CTP Microsoft “Roslyn” CTP Home Download Roslyn Project Download Show

In this episode, Keith and Woody sit down with Jim Wooley to discuss what developers need to know before developing WinRT applications for Windows 8. Thanks to our guest this episode By date, Jim Wooley is a consultant for Slalom Consulting, In his free time, Jim is a frequent speaker, INETA Regional Speaker, MVP, and author of "LINQ in Action". He is always striving to stay at the forefront of technology and enjoys the thrill of a new challenge. He has been active evangelizing LINQ since it's announcement in 2005. In addition, he attempts to pass on the insights he has gained by being active in the community, including organizing and speaking at code camps and regional events, including DevLink, DevWeek, CodeMash, CodeStock, VS Live, and MIX. Jim can be found on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/jimwooley Jim blogs at http://www.thinqlinq.com/ Show Notes Previewing Windows 8 Building Windows 8 blog BUILD Conference session – Lap Around Windows Runtime BUILD Conference session - Ten Tips When Writing a Hybrid Language Metro style Application Download Show

In this episode, Woody sits down with developer and technologist Ted Neward to discuss his views from Microsoft's BUILD conference and where he predicts Windows 8 and WinRT are going for consumers and developers. Thanks to our guest this episode Ted Neward is an Architectural Consultant with Neudesic, LLC as well as the Principal with Neward & Associates. He speaks on the conference circuit, including the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium tour, discussing Java, .NET and XML service technologies, focusing on Java-.NET interoperability, programming languages, and virtual machine technologies. He has written several widely-recognized books in both the Java and .NET space, including the recently- released “Professional F#” and widely-acclaimed “Effective Enterprise Java”. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. Ted can be found on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/tedneward Ted blogs at http://blogs.tedneward.com/ Show Notes Previewing Windows 8 Building Windows 8 blog Download Show

In this episode, Keith and Woody sits down with developer Derik Whittaker to talk about the migrating Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 applications to Windows 8 Metro and Derik's outlook on the future of developing for Windows 8 Metro Style apps. Thanks to our guest this episode Derik is a Software Architect working at 3 BirdsMarking, which is a social marketing start-up company, helping build out a world calls Silverlight application .  Recently Derik has been focused on building Windows Phone 7 and rich Silverlight applications.  He has over 11 years of experience developing, mentoring and leading Microsoft based products for a wide variety of different professional fields.  Derik has been awarded the MVP award in C# for the past 4 years, he is also a member of the ASPInsiders group.  He has been working exclusively with .Net since its inception and has professional experience in both VB.net as well as C#. He is also a follower and believer in the Agile methodologies and has wide array of experience using various Agile techniques in the real world. Derik can be found on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/DerikWhittaker Derik blogs at http://www.dimecasts.net/ Show Notes Previewing Windows 8 Building Windows 8 blog Developing Windows 8 apps Download Show

In this episode, Woody sits down Don Smith, Microsoft Sr Program Manager on the Patterns & Practices Group, to discuss Project Silk. Thanks to our guest this episode Don Smith is a Senior Program Manager on the patterns & practices team at Microsoft. In his six years with p&p he has produced developer guidance related to web services, Visual Studio extensibility and software factories, agile team practices, application architecture, data access, and most recently client-side web development with HTML5 and JavaScript. In his first six years at Microsoft Don was an Application Development Consultant where he helped internet and enterprise customers build and deploy their solutions and he’s been a staunch customer advocate ever since. Don continues to apply his passions to web development technologies and scenarios including the area of mobile web development. He loves to be contacted by customers so feel free to make a connection on Twitter (@locksmithdon), his blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/donsmith) or email (dons@microsoft.com). Philip’s can be found on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/locksmithdon Show Notes Project Silk Project Silk on CodePlex HTML5 Single-page Interfaces Modular JavaScript with Plugins, and Widgets QUnit JQuery UI JQPlot Download Show

In this episode, Keith sits down with Philip Laureano to discuss the black art of IL (Intermediate Language) Rewriting and how this little known .NET knowledge can have a huge benefit for your projects. IL Rewriting is also a very geeky skill to impress your developer friends. Thanks to our guest this episode Philip Laureano is the author of LinFu, an open source framework for implementing AOP design by contract, dynamic proxies, mixins, inversion of control, and universal event handling on the Common Language Runtime. He is also the author of Hiro, the world's first and 'fastest' IOC container that is written in pure IL. On his spare time, you can usually find him hacking his own compiler and implementing the CLR Metadata specifications for fun. Philip has been professionally writing software in general since 1999, and coding in IL since 2005. Philip currently works as a Senior Developer for Readify, an IT consulting company in Australia. Philip’s blog is at http://plaureano.blogspot.com Philip’s can be found on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/philiplaureano Show Notes NotifyPropertyWeaver Mono Cecil LinFu Download Show

In this episode, Keith sits down with Beth Massi to discuss LightSwitch. LightSwitch is a simplified, self-service development tool that enables developers to build business applications quickly and easily for the desktop and cloud. Thanks to our guest this episode Beth Massi is a Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Visual Studio BizApps team who build the Visual Studio tools for Azure, Office, SharePoint as well as Visual Studio LightSwitch. Beth is a community champion for business application developers and is responsible for producing and managing online content and community interaction for the BizApps team. She has over 15 years of industry experience building business applications and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Beth’s blog is at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/ Beth can be found on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/BethMassi Check out Beth’s interviews on Channel 9 at http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/funkyonex Show Notes LightSwitch Home on MSDN LightSwitch Starter Kits DevExpress Extensions for LightSwitch Microsoft Store Discount for LightSwitch $199 Download Show

In this episode, Keith and Woody sit down with Chris Love to discuss the merits and future of the Mobile Web. Chris shares his insight and vision on why developers should prepare and develop mobile web apps using HTML5 instead of create native mobile apps. Thanks to our guest this episode Chris Love has been professionally developing for nearly 20 years. He has architected and developed solutions for several hundred manufacturing, startups, banking, small businesses and enterprise customers in that time. Currently he is Tellago’s Mobility Practice lead and works on Tellago Studios projects as well as consulting with customers relating to mobile and web solutions. Chris is a 4 time ASP.NET MVP award winner and is a member of the ASP Insiders group. He regularly blogs, tweets and speaks at user groups, code camps and just about anywhere else that will have him and he can fit in his schedule. He has also authored a pair of ASP.NET books for Wiley Press. He specializes in creating modern web solutions leveraging jQuery, ASP.NET, HTML5 and Service Oriented Architecture. Mobile has become his passion in recent years as the growth and opportunities in the mobile market allow him a vast new world to explore and innovate. Chris' blog is at http://Professionalaspnet.com Chris can be found on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ChrisLove   Show Notes Working Group - http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/ Notification Group - http://www.w3.org/2010/web-notifications/ Geolocation Group - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2009Nov/0026.html Web Applications Group - http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/ Touch API - http://www.w3.org/TR/touch-events/ Media Capture - http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/camera/ Device Orientation - http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source-orientation.html Battery Status - http://www.w3.org/TR/battery-status/ Calendar API - http://www.w3.org/TR/calendar-api/ Contacts API - http://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-api/ Permissions for Device Access API - http://www.w3.org/TR/api-perms/ File System API - http://www.w3.org/TR/file-system-api/ Gallery API - http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/gallery/ Device Access Control - http://www.w3.org/TR/dap-policy-reqs/ Tasks API - http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/tasks/ Ink Markup - http://www.w3.org/TR/InkML/ Download Show

In this episode, Keith and Woody sit down with the James Bender and Jeff McWherter, the authors of the book “Professional Test Driven Development with C#: Developing Real World Applications with TDD (Wrox Professional Guides) ”, to get some real world advice for developers that want to use Test Driven Development when developing great software. Thanks to our guest this episode Jeff McWherter is a Partner/Director of Development at Gravity Works Design. Jeff is a graduate of Michigan State University and has over 12 years of professional software development experience. Jeff is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD), Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA), Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD), and Microsoft Technology Specialist (MCTS). In 2010 Jeff was awarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the third year in a row. Jeff is also a published author, with Testing ASP.NET Web Applications (Wrox Press) and Professional Test Driven Development with C# (Wrox Press). Jeff is very active in developing programming communities across the country, speaking at conferences and organizing events such as the Lansing Give Camp, which pairs developers with non-profit organizations for volunteer projects. Jeff’s blog is at http://www.gravityworksdesign.com/Blog.aspx Jeff can be found on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/jmcw James is the Vice President of Technology at Improving Enterprises in Columbus, OH. James has been involved in software development and architecture for 16 years. He has worked as a developer and architect on everything from small, single-user applications to Enterprise-scale, multi-user systems. His specialties are .NET development and architecture, TDD, SOA, WCF, WF, cloud computing, and agile development methodologies. He is an experienced mentor and author. James is a Microsoft MVP. James is an active member of the development community. He is the current president of the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group (www.condg.org), is on the board of the Columbus Ohio Give Camp and is the senior editor of first-party content for nplus1.org, an educational website aimed toward architects and aspiring architects. James book "Professional Test Driven Development with C#: Developing Real World Applications with TDD" will be released in May 10th and is available for pre-order on Amazon now. James’ blog is at http://jamescbender.com/bendersblog James can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/JamesBender Show Notes Professional Test Driven Development with C#: Developing Real World Applications with TDD (Wrox Professional Guides) Link to Jeff’s other book: “Testing ASP.NET Web Applications (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) ” Uncle Bob’s book: “Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship ” MBUnit NUnit MSTest Moq Rhino Mocks Download Show

In this episode, Keith Elder sits down with Nikita Polyakov to discuss features available in the Windows Phone 7 Mango release for developers. The up and coming Mango release has over 500 new features and incorporates new live tile features, notifications, full camera access and many other things. Listen in as Nikita outlines how Deep Fried Bytes could build a Windows Phone 7 application and take advantage of all of the new features for developers in Mango. Thanks to our guest this episode Nikita Polyakov is from Tampa, Florida he blogs at www.NikitaPolyakov.com and can be found chatting up a storm on Twitter at  Twitter.com/NikitaP Nikita is the Windows Phone 7 Development Microsoft MVP of the Year 2011, a speaker and community organizer. Nikita works for AgileThought as a Senior Consultant building custom software for various customers. Nikita is an avid Windows Phone expert who also enjoys Graphic Design, User Experience and Marketing/Advertising topics. Nikita is one of the authors in process of updating to Mango the Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Application Development in 24 Hours. Show Notes For more information about Windows Phone 7 please go to: http://WindowsPhone.com For developer hub please go to: http://create.msdn.com For SketchFlow prototyping please read here: http://geekswithblogs.net/campuskoder/archive/2011/06/10/145808.aspx Download Show

In this episode, Woody sits down with Dave Giard to discuss the concepts of Data Visualization and how developers can learn from the teachings of Edward Tufte. Thanks to our guest this episode David Giard has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies since 1993. He is a Microsoft MVP; an INETA mentor; and the President of the Great Lakes Area .Net User Group. David has presented at many of the conferences and user groups around the Midwest. He is a recovering certification addict and holds an MCTS, MCSD, MCSE, and MCDBA, as well as a BS and an MBA. He is the host and producer of the mildly popular online TV show Technology and Friends. You can read his latest thoughts at www.DavidGiard.com. David lives in Michigan with his two teenage sons. Dave’s blog is at http://davidgiard.com/ Dave's videocast is Technology and Friends Dave can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/DavidGiard   Show Notes Book: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward R. Tufte) David’s Slidedeck from his Data Visualization talk Data Visualization, Part 1: Introduction to Data Visualization Data Visualization, Part 2: Graphical Excellence Data Visualization, Part 3: Graphical Integrity Data Visualization, Part 4: Context Data Visualization, Part 5: Data-Ink Data Visualization, Part 6: Chart Junk Download Show

In this episode, Keith and Woody sit down with two members of the Entity Framework team to discuss the Code First update in Entity Framework 4.1 and why developers should be excited about this new feature. Thanks to our guests this episode Tim Laverty is a program manager lead in the Business Platform Division working on the Entity Framework. He is responsible for helping build next generation data access technologies from Microsoft. Tim has contributed to the design of a wide range of features for the Microsoft Data Platform including System.Data, System.XML, and Visual Studio Data Tooling. Tim is an industry vet having worked in government, agriculture, games, and commercial software. Tim can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/timlaverty Tim’s email is timlav@microsoft.com Jeff Derstadt is a developer lead on the Data Frameworks team at Microsoft and is involved with the Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, and datajs projects. His focus is on improving the developer experience around connecting to and accessing data. Jeff has been a part of the EF team since its inception and is currently working on adding features to the next version. Prior to working on data access frameworks, Jeff worked in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft making it possible for Microsoft servers to integrate with DB2 and host file systems. When not at Microsoft, Jeff enjoys participating in triathlons, house building projects, and spending time with his family. Jeff can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/jeffders Jeff’s email is jeffders@microsoft.com Show Notes Entity Framework team blog Entity Framework Feature Suggestions Forum Download Show

In this episode, Keith and Woody sit down with Jeremy D. Miller to discuss the importance of importance of conventional programming and how it can save time and improve the qualities of your development projects. Jeremy gives the guys a lot of examples and we chat about many open source projects for .NET developers. Thanks to our guest this episode Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest ISV in Austin.  Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap tool for Dependency Injection with .Net, StoryTeller for supercharged acceptance testing in .Net, and one of the principal developers behind FubuMVC. Jeremy’s blog is at http://codebetter.com/jeremymiller Jeremy can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/jeremydmiller Show Notes FubuMVC Fluent Nhibernate Entity Framework 4.1 Jeremy’s GitHub Martin Fowler’s Domain-Specific Languages Book Glimpse StoryTeller StructureMap TopShelf Owin Kayak OpenWrap Fiddler Download Show

In this episode, Keith and Woody sit down with Buck Woody of Microsoft to discuss what big changes are coming to people in the IT world and how the Cloud will be part of that change. Thanks to our guest this episode Buck Woody (blog | twitter) is a Senior Technical Specialist for Microsoft, working with enterprise-level clients to develop computing platform architecture solutions within their organizations. With over twenty-five years professional and practical experience in computer technology, he is also a popular speaker at TechEd, PASS and many other conferences; the author of over 500 articles and five books on databases; and teaches a Database Design course at the University of Washington. Buck’s blog is at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/ Buck can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/buckwoody Show Notes Buck’s Azure Training Plans Windows Azure Learning Plan - Architecture Download Show

In this episode Keith and Woody sit down with Michael Eaton, an independent software consultant for over ten years, to help others thinking about becoming an independent software consultant. Michael provides tons of tips including how to manage money, what to charge clients, how much to save for taxes, health insurance, accounting, time tracking tools and tons of other great tips. Thanks to our guest this episode Michael is a software developer primarily interested in developing solutions for clients using Microsoft tools and technologies He is a  strong believer in Test Driven Design, Continuous Integration and incremental delivery to ensure customers get high-quality and robust solutions that work for them. Michael’s blog is at http://mjeaton.net/blog  Michael can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mjeaton Michael can be found on LinkedIn at http://linkedin.com/in/mjeaton Show Notes AgileZen – managing tasks with clients Harvest – time tracking and invoicing Outright – accounting made simple (big picture view of the business) Tripit – tracking travel and trips ShoeBoxed – tracking expenses Evernote – notes (although Michael uses pen and paper still) Download Show