Why Postgres? and why now? with Claire Giordano

Scott and Carl talk with Shawn Burke on the culmination of his many-year-old plan to get parts of the source of the .NET Framework released. With Visual Studio 2008, a simple process will allow developers to STEP INTO the .NET Framework Source from the IDE. This'll be a great debugging and learning tool.

26 Syys 200721min

Every copy of Windows Vista Home Premium and above has Media Center on it. Have you run your copy? Turns out that you can develop your own '10 foot apps' (that can be run with a remote from your couch) with Visual Studio Express or even Notepad. Scott talks to Charlie Owen to find out how.

21 Syys 200731min

Scott adds some much needed detail to last weeks show. Is developing on 64-bit in .NET tricky? What gotchas do you need? Who should move to 64-bit? Recorded from his hotel room the night before Scott goes to work at Microsoft.

10 Syys 200735min

Carl and Scott are both running 64-bit Vista while others wait. Was it the right decision?

7 Syys 200725min

Scott's been poking around with LINQ to XML and reports his findings to Carl about life with XDocuments and XElements. They also talk about the bridge classes that link (no pun intended) System.Xml and System.Xml.Linq.

31 Elo 200717min

Scott and Carl talk about Scott's 2007 Ultimate devoloper and power users tool list.

25 Elo 200731min

Scott and Carl talk about Scott's Family's recent move to Google Apps and Carl considers moving to Live Custom Domains. What are the benefits of moving your life into the cloud?

17 Elo 200725min

Scott chats with Robert Pickering, author of Foundations of F#. We ask the question 'Why F#?' and talk about functional languages and some of the features of F# that make it a great introduction to FP for .NET programmers.

10 Elo 200736min