CodeCast
112 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 13 years ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsCodeCast is The Late Night Show for .NET Developers, put on by CODE Magazine and your hosts Ken Levy, Gary Short, and Markus Egger
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CodeCast Episode 62: GiveCamp with Chris Koenig
January 06, 2010 05:00CodeCast Episode 62: GiveCamp with Chris Koenig In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Chris Koenig, a developer evangelist for Microsoft in the Dallas, Texas offices. This is an in-depth discussion about the history, status, and roadmap for GiveCamp events in various cities. GiveCamp was an idea hatched by Chris a few years ago, and now there are many GiveCamp events organized around the country with expansion plans this year. GiveCamp is a weekend long event where software devel...
CodeCast Episode 61: RIA Services with Silverlight and more
December 24, 2009 05:00CodeCast Episode 61: RIA Services with Silverlight and more In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss Microsoft RIA Services. RIA (Rich Internet Applications). Microsoft describes RIA Services as simplifying the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and cus...
CodeCast Episode 60: Visual Studio 2010 editor with Chris Granger
December 18, 2009 05:00CodeCast Episode 60: Visual Studio 2010 editor with Chris Granger In this episode of CodeCast, KenLevy interviews Chris Granger, program manager on the VS platform team at Microsoft, working on the new VS IDE editor (WPF based). Chris goes in-depth on the new VS 2010 editor including many of the cool features native to the editor as well as under-the-hood extensions architecture using the Visual Studio SDK. With the new managed editor API extensions and WPF/XAML based UI, a new generation o...
CodeCast Episode 59: VS 2010 SDK and Extension Manager with Quan To
December 17, 2009 05:00CodeCast Episode 59: VS 2010 SDK and Extension Manager with Quan To In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Quan To, senior program manager on the VS platform team at Microsoft. This is a follow-up discussion enhancements to the current and upcoming versions of the Visual Studio 2010 SDK for creating free and product based extensions. Also discussed is the new Extension Manager in VS 2010 for browsing (via WPF UI) and installing free VS extensions hosted on visualstudiogallery.com....
CodeCast Episode 58: msdn.com content and strategy with Kerby Kuykendall
December 16, 2009 05:00CodeCast Episode 58: msdn.com content and strategy with Kerby Kuykendall In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Kerby Kuykendall who is the lead site manager for msdn.com at Microsoft. The discussion includes recent msdn.com developer center UI updates, the latest msdn.com content/nav taxonomy, differences between msdn.com dev centers, strategy of pre-sales (microsoft.com) vs. post-sales (msdn.com) vs. beta/CTP sites vs Channel 9 vs asp.net/silverlight.net. Tips like viewing lite ...
CodeCast Episode 57: Expression for Silverlight and WPF
December 11, 2009 05:00CodeCast Episode 57: Expression for Silverlight and WPF In this episode of CodeCast, Markus Egger and Ken Levy discuss a short re-cap of the recent DevConnections and PDF conferences, and talk in depth about using Expression with Visual Studio for WPF and Silverlight development, including the upcoming update to Expression for Silverlight 4. Links · Microsoft Expression – http://microsoft.com/expression · Microsoft PDC videos online - http://microsoftpdc.com/videos Len...
CodeCast Episode 56: Videos on msdn.com with Jeremy Kelley
December 05, 2009 05:00CodeCast Episode 56: Videos on msdn.com with Jeremy Kelley In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Jeremy Kelley of Microsoft, who is a program manager on the msdn.com team. Jeremy discusses the state and future of videos (How-Do-I videos, screencasts, etc) hosted on msdn.com dev centers and TechNet sites, how they relate to Channel 9 videos that also use Silverlight, various formats, and roadmap plans for 2010 with videos on msdn.com. Guest · Jeremy Kelley – Blog, http:/...
CodeCast Episode 55: TechEd Europe 2009 Review and Silverlight 4
December 01, 2009 05:00CodeCast Episode 55: TechEd Europe 2009 Review and Silverlight 4 In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy and Gary Short summarize TechEd Europe 2009, and discuss in depth the recent announcements of upcoming features included in Silverlight 4 and new scenarios it will open up for developers. Some of the new features coming in Silverlight 4 include extended out of browser functionality, offline DRM, elevated trust applications, group policy file support, UAC client support, COM access, ActiveX...
CodeCast Episode 54: PDC 2009 Review
November 25, 2009 05:00CodeCast Episode 54: PDC 2009 Review In this episode of CodeCast, Markus Egger and Ken Levy discuss the various Microsoft news and announcements from PDC 2009. Videos of conference keynotes and sessions are online at http://microsoftpdc.com/Videos. Links · Microsoft PDC - http://microsoftpdc.com Length: 44:27 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])
CodeCast Episode 53: UML, VS 2010, .NET 4.0 with Kevin McNeish
November 18, 2009 05:00CodeCast Episode 53: UML, VS 2010, .NET 4.0 with Kevin McNeish In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Kevin McNeish on the topics of using UML for both team and individual .NET developers, as well as many key highlights of what’s new in Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and .NET Framework 4.0 (including new support for UML). Guest · Kevin McNeish - http://oakleafsd.com Links · Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 – http://microsoft.com/visualstudio Length: 54:54 Posted @ 11:...
CodeCast Episode 52: Windows 7 for Developers
November 06, 2009 05:00CodeCast Episode 52: Windows 7 for Developers In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss in-depth many new features and tips on functionality in Windows 7 for developers using and programming with Windows 7. Links · Windows Developer Center – http://msdn.com/windows · Top 10 Tips Working Developers Should Know about Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman) Length: 63:36 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])
CodeCast Episode 51: Software Project Management with Mike Yeager
October 31, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 51: Software Project Management with Mike Yeager In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Mike Yeager of EPS Software. Mike is responsible for overall operations and project management at the Houston offices (EPS U.S.) and discusses the end to end aspects of software project management from proposals to working with clients to managing a software team to keeping developers up with new and evolving technologies. Guest · Mike Yeager - Twitter: http://twitter...
CodeCast Episode 50: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 with Doug Seven
October 23, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 50: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 with Doug Seven In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Doug Seven, senior product manager at Microsoft, on the recent news and announcements for the new Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 download along with the changes for both Visual Studio Product SKUs and MSDN Subscription levels for next year. Guest · Doug Seven – Blog: http://www.dougseven.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/dseven Links · Visual Studio 2010 – http://mi...
CodeCast Episode 49: Using Code Templates and Refactoring with Visual Studio
October 14, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 49: Using Code Templates and Refactoring with Visual Studio In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short discuss the benefits, productivity, scenarios, and tools in using code templates and refactoring in Visual Studio development. Links · Code Snippet Editor - http://www.codeplex.com/SnippetEditor · CodeRush, CodeRush Xpress, and Refactor - http://devexpress.com Length: 51:50 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])
CodeCast Episode 48: iPhone Development for .NET Developers
October 02, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 48: iPhone Development for .NET Developers In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss in depth an overview of iPhone and iPod Touch development: getting started, perquisites, Xcode, Cocoa framework, Objective C, MonoTouch, and other related topics such as submitting apps to the Apple iTunes application store. Links · Apple Developer Connection - http://developer.apple.com · iPhone Development Training for .NET de...
CodeCast Episode 47: WPF and Silverlight with Walt Ritscher
September 25, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 47: WPF and Silverlight with Walt Ritscher In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Walt Ritscher discussing WPF, Silverlight, Expression Blend, Surface, and other related topics. Guest · Walt Ritscher - Blog: http://blog.waltritscher.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/WaltRitscher Links · Shazzam - http://shazzam-tool.com · Programming WPF · Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .Net 3.5 · Pro WPF: Win...
CodeCast Episode 46: Upcoming Microsoft PDC 2009
September 18, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 46: Upcoming Microsoft PDC 2009 In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss the various technology topics expected be included at the upcoming Microsoft PDC 2009 conference in Los Angeles. Links · Microsoft PDC – http://microsoft.com/pdc · PDC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/PDC09 · CODE Training – http://codemag.com/training · Markus Egger’s blog post: Developer/Contractor Work and Training Oppo...
CodeCast Episode 45: Development Constraints with CSS, HTML, HTML 5
September 15, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 45: Development Constraints with CSS, HTML, HTML 5 In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss web development constraints of CSS, HTML and upcoming HTML 5. In the brief tech news segment, the topics include recent Apple announcements including the new iPhone/iPodTouch OS 3.1 firmware and iTunes 9 update. Links · HTML 5 draft – http://w3.org/TR/html5 · HTML 5 demos- http://html5demos.com Length: 48:06 Posted @...
CodeCast Episode 44: Virtualization with Brian Randell
September 11, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 44: Virtualization with Brian Randell In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Brian Randell on Windows virtualization using Microsoft Virtual PC (VPC), Windows Virtual PC (WVPC), and Hyper-V. VMWare and virtualization of Windows on a Mac are topics also included in the discussion. Guest · Brian Randell: Blog: http://mcwtech.com/cs/brianr Twitter: http://twitter.com/BrianRandell Links · Microsoft Virtual PC – http://microsoft.com/windows/virtua...
CodeCast Episode 43: Real-time vs. Cached Search, CODE in Kindle Format
September 04, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 43: Real-time vs. Cached Search, CODE in Kindle Format In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss news on Apple, Zune HD, The Lost Symbol coming to eBook (same day as hardback), Windows phone 6.5, CODE and CODE Focus magazines on Kindle format, Xiine, upcoming new CODE Magazine website, and the latest issue of CODE magazine. Then in the main topic, an in-depth chat on real-time vs. cached search when using public search engines as w...
CodeCast Episode 42: Project Complexity, Snow Leopard, CODE Mag on Kindle
August 28, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 42: Project Complexity, Snow Leopard, CODE Mag on Kindle In this episode of CodeCast has Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discussing project complexity on the Microsoft platform in comparison with tools and technologies on the LAMP stack. These days, there are a gazillion layers and technologies in development with database, data access, business objects, services, models, view models, controllers, views, WPF, Silverlight, JavaScrispt, HTML, AJAX, unit tests, integrat...
CodeCast Episode 41: Windows Live and Live Services with James Senior
August 25, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 41: Windows Live and Live Services with James Senior In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy and interviews James Senior, Web Platform Evangelist at Microsoft. James discusses various news, products, and technologies for Windows Live for both users and developers, and various Live Services for customization and platform development. Guest · James Senior – Blog: http://jamessenior.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/jsenior Links · Windows Live Essentials do...
CodeCast Episode 40: Developer Methodologies, Windows Live, and Tech News
August 22, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 40: Developer Methodologies, Windows Live, and Tech News In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short discuss news around Windows Phone (formerly Windows Mobile), PowerBuilder 12 released by Sybase based on the free Visual Studio Shell runtime, Apple related news, GPS apps for iPhones, eBook reader content, and recent Windows Live Essentials updates. The main discussion topic is development methodologies such as agile. Links · Agile Manifesto – ht...
CodeCast Episode 39: CodePlex with Sara Ford
August 20, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 39: CodePlex with Sara Ford In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Sara Ford, “the” program manager for CodePlex at Microsoft. Sara discusses her past 8 years at Microsoft leading up to her current role on the CodePlex team, what’s new around CodePlex, how the CodePlex team uses agile development practices, prioritizing new features to CodePlex, and details on the CodePlex roadmap including high priority features. The chat concludes with Sara’s participation at re...
CodeCast Episode 38: Windows 7 for Devs, Digital Software Purchases
August 14, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 38: Windows 7 for Devs, Digital Software Purchases In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short Topics have discussions including the recent major update to Xbox Live and trends around multi-touch applications. A major topic in the discussion is the release of Windows 7 including resources for developers around Win7. Another big topic in this episode is current technology and future trends around purchasing software electronically including e...
CodeCast Episode 37: ASP.NET MVC with guest Rick Strahl
August 04, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 37: ASP.NET MVC with guest Rick Strahl In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short are joined by returning special guest host Rick Strahl. The primary discussion, starting at marker 22:48, is on ASP.NET MVC, including what it is, what it’s for, how it relates to ASP.NET web forms, and a chat about what’s new in the V2 preview version. News discussion topics include Google CEO Eric Schmidt stepping down from the Apple board of directors, the ...
CodeCast Episode 36: Chrome OS, eBooks with guest Rick Strahl
July 31, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 36: Chrome OS, eBooks with guest Rick Strahl In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short are joined by returning special guest Rick Strahl. Discussions include latest news for CODE Magazine, Chrome OS, cloud based apps and services, mini-notebooks, eBook readers and content, Windows Marketplace for Mobile, with industry news and forecasting on these various topics. Guests · Rick Strahl – Blog: http://west-wind.com/weblog, Twitter:...
CodeCast Episode 35: TechEd Aus/NZ and Field Evangelists with Andrew Coates
July 24, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 35: TechEd Aus/NZ and Field Evangelists with Andrew Coates In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Andrew Coates discussing fall TechEd in Australia and New Zealand, as well as how .NET developers can benefit getting to know people from their regional Microsoft field offices and technical evangelists. Guests · Andrew Coates - Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat, Twitter: http://twitter.com/coatsy Links · TechEd Australia - http://www.msteched.com...
CodeCast Episode 34: Surface, Win7 Multi-Touch, iPhone SDK with Dr. Neil Roodyn
July 22, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 34: Surface, Win7 Multi-Touch, iPhone SDK with Dr. Neil Roodyn In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Dr. Neil Roodyn with an extended conversation on a variety of topics including the Microsoft Surface, upcoming Windows 7 multi-touch applications, iPhone SDK, WPF, Silverlight, Expression Blend, Windows SDK, natural interface UI/UX design, Twitter, and more. Guests · Dr. Neil Roodyn - Blog: http://roodyn.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/DrNeil Links · ...
CodeCast Episode 33: Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3
July 21, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 33: Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss recent trips, latest CODE magazine issue, Silverlight 3, Expression Blend 3 RC, SketchFlow, and the early Office 2010 beta. Hosts · Ken Levy – Blog: http://mashupx.com/blog, Twitter: http://twitter.com/KenLevy · Markus Egger – Blog: http://markusegger.com/blog, Twitter: http://twitter.com/MarkusEgger Links · Silverlight 3 – http://sli...
CodeCast Episode 32: Roadmap for VB, C#, and F# with Luca Bolognese
July 18, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 32: Roadmap for VB, C#, and F# with Luca Bolognese In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discussing Kindle and Sony eBook readers, upcoming Microsoft Zune HD, Visual Studio 2010 beta. Then in the guest interview, Ken interviews Luca Bolognese who is the group program manager at Microsoft on the Visual Studio languages team. Luca talks about the roadmap for and co-evolution of VB, C#, and F# languages beyond Visual Studio 2010. Guests...
CodeCast Episode 31: Google Wave, Apple, Bing.com with Ken Levy and Gary Short
July 17, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 31: Google Wave, Apple, Bing.com with Ken Levy and Gary Short In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy and Gary Short discuss summer news for developers. Topics discussed include event news, Google Wave, Apple news, Bing.com, and WolframAlpha.com. Guests · Ken Levy – Blog: http://mashupx.com/blog, Twitter: http://twitter.com/KenLevy · Gary Short - Blog: http://garyshortblog.wordpress.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/GaryShort Links · Google Wave – ...
CodeCast Episode 30: CodeRush Xpress with Gary Short
July 10, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 30: CodeRush Xpress with Gary Short In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Gary Short on the new CodeRush Xpress for C# and VB, a new free light version of CodeRush by DevExpress. CodeRush Xpress is available for Visual Studio 2008 including many editor, productivity, and refactoring features from the full version of CodeRush, with a new version being worked on for future release supporting Visual Studio 2010. Guests · Gary Short – Blog: http://garyshort...
CodeCast Episode 29: Dynamic Language Features in C# 4.0 with Alexandru Ghiondea
July 03, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 29: Dynamic Language Features in C# 4.0 with Alexandru Ghiondea In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Alexandru Ghiondea who is a QA test engineer on the C# compiler team focused on the area of new dynamic language features in C# 4.0 (Visual Studio 2010). Alexandru discusses how the new dynamic features in C# 4.0 relates to dynamic features of VB, how C# 4.0 will improve areas such as COM programming support (dynamic methods, late binding of COM, etc)., and how C...
CodeCast Episode 28: Adding Features to C# and VB Compilers with Sam Ng
June 26, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 28: Adding Features to C# and VB Compilers with Sam Ng In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Sam Ng who is a developer on the C# compiler team at Microsoft, discussing processes for adding new features to the C# compiler and language, including new features coming in Visual Studio 2010. Guests · Sam Ng – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/samng Links · Channel 9: Inside C# 4.0: dynamic typing, optional parameters, covariance and contravariance Lengt...
CodeCast Episode 27: Extensible Start Page in Visual Studio 2010 with Noah Coad
June 19, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 27: Extensible Start Page in Visual Studio 2010 with Noah Coad In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Noah Coad who is a program manager on the Visual Studio Platform team. Noah is working on bringing various VS IDE UI components into WPF for VS 2010, and discusses his efforts on the new Visual Studio 2010 IDE including the cool new customizable and extensible WPF/XAML based Start Page. Guests · Noah Coad - Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc, Twitter: htt...
CodeCast Episode 26: IronRuby with Jimmy Schementi
June 12, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 26: IronRuby with Jimmy Schementi In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Jimmy Schementi who is a program manager on the IronRuby team at Microsoft. Jimmy discusses his role on the IronRuby team, how IronRuby relates to Microsoft’s other .NET program languages, scenarios for using IronRuby, and Microsoft’s roadmap for IronRuby. Guests · Jimmy Schementi – Blog: http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/jschementi Links · IronR...
CodeCast Episode 25: Advanced .NET Programming with Eric Lippert
June 05, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 25: Advanced .NET Programming with Eric Lippert In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Eric Lippert who is a senior software design engineer at Microsoft. Eric has been working at Microsoft on developer tools and languages since 1996, and has assisted with the design and implementation of VBScript, JScript, JScript .NET, Windows Script Host, Visual Studio Tools for Office and C#. Some of the many questions and topics Eric discusses include: What forces influence ...
CodeCast Episode 24: MDSN Forums and msdn.com with Jeremy Kelley
May 29, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 24: MDSN Forums and msdn.com with Jeremy Kelley In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Jeremy Kelley of Microsoft, who is a program manager on the MSDN Forums team. Jeremy discusses the state and future of MSDN forums, the msdn.com dev centers, developer feedback, and other community related topics for developers on the Microsoft platform. Guests · Jeremy Kelley – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/JeremyKelley, Twitter: http://twitter.com/Fizzlenik Links · ...
CodeCast Episode 23: VS 2010 Extension Manager and Visual Studio Gallery
May 22, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 23: VS 2010 Extension Manager and Visual Studio Gallery In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Quan To and Anthony Cangialosi of the Visual Studio Platform team at Microsoft. The discussion goes into new details about the Extension Manager in Visual Studio 2010 and the enhancements to the Visual Studio Gallery (http://visualstudiogallery.com) to allow hosting extensions online allowing them to be installed from within the VS IDE. Also discussed, enhancements to th...
CodeCast Episode 22: F# with Chris Smith
May 15, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 22: F# with Chris Smith In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Chris Smith from Microsoft’s F# language team on F#, functional programming, his new F# book, F# for VS 2008, upcoming F# inclusion in VS 2010, and why F# is useful to C# and VB developers. Guests · Chris Smith – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith, Twitter: http://twitter.com/aChrisSmith Links · Programming F# by Chris Smith · F# Developer Center – http://msdn.com/fsharp ...
CodeCast Episode 21: .NET, Java, Oracle-Sun, New IT Cold War with Ted Neward
May 08, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 21: .NET, Java, Oracle-Sun, New IT Cold War with Ted Neward Ken Levy interviews Ted Neward in an in-depth 71 minute discussion around the impact of Oracle buying Sun Microsystems and how it relates to Java, MySQL, Microsoft, .NET programming languages, IBM, and other companies and topics related in the IT world. Guests · Ted Neward (@ 27:28) – Blog: http://blogs.tedneward.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/TedNeward Length: 01:12:28 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ...
CodeCast Episode 20: Biz Apps Team and VB with Beth Massi
May 06, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 20: Biz Apps Team and VB with Beth Massi Co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss Expression and XAML, and tech/gadget talk on the upcoming iPhone 3.0 OS and the upcoming ZuneHD. The show interview is Ken interviewing Beth Massi, Microsoft, program manager on Microsoft’s BizApps team in the VS group. Beth discusses her work over the past two years at Microsoft on the VB team and now on the BizApps team, and chat about some cool new features and content in Vis...
CodeCast Episode 19: Windows Mobile Dev Community with Constanze Roman
May 01, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 19: Windows Mobile Dev Community with Constanze Roman In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss event news (including DevTeach), tech news (Oracle/Sun merger), and an in-depth chat about WPF and Silverlight. The interview for this show includes Ken Levy chatting with Constanze Roman, community PM for the Windows Mobile DevX team, discussing content and community for Windows Mobile developers. Topics · Constance Roman (...
CodeCast Episode 18: IronPython and Dynamic Languages with Harry Pierson
April 24, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 18: IronPython and Dynamic Languages with Harry Pierson This episode includes Ken Levy interviewing Microsoft’s IronPython program manager Harry Pierson, a part 2 from CodeCast #13. This is an extended in depth discussion with Harry giving examples of how dynamic languages are useful to any VB or C# developer, and how the next version of VS (version 2010) will include new features for integrating dynamic language programming within a VB or C# project. Topics · Har...
CodeCast Episode 17: Visual Basic 2010 Preview with Lisa Feigenbaum
April 17, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 17: Visual Basic 2010 Preview with Lisa Feigenbaum This episode includes Ken Levy with a part 2 interview with Microsoft’s VB community program manager Lisa Feigenbaum. Lisa discusses many of the cool new features coming in the VB 2010 language and compiler, and some new VS 2010 IDE features. Also discussed is VB within Microsoft’s family of various .NET programming languages. Topics · Lisa Feigenbaum – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam, Twitter: http://twitter.c...
CodeCast Episode 16: MVPs and Connected Systems Community with Ed Hickey
April 10, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 16: MVPs and Connected Systems Community with Ed Hickey In this episode of CodeCast, hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short talk in depth about Microsoft’s MVP Program, plus what’s new with CODE Magazine branding and production including plans for the Kindle format publication. In tech and gadget news, the hosts discuss Skype for iPhone and Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Mobile marketplace plans. In this shows interview, Ken Levy interviews Microsoft’s Ed Hickey, commun...
CodeCast Episode 15: Oslo and M with Paul Vick
April 03, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 15: Oslo and M with Paul Vick In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss recent event news (MIX09 and DevConnections) and upcoming events (TechEd and PDC). Also discussed is news around Silverlight, Expression Blend, ASP.NET MVC, and IE 8.0. Then Ken Levy interviews Paul Vick (developer and architect at Microsoft). Paul discusses his history at Microsoft working on the Access and VB teams, and also chats about DSLs and the modeling ...
CodeCast Episode 14: Expression and MDSN Developer and Design Centers
March 20, 2009 04:00CodeCast Episode 14: Expression and MDSN Developer and Design Centers In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Lori Dirks, community program manager at Microsoft on Expression team, and another interview with Laurie Moloney who is a site manager on Microsoft’s MSDN.com website team. These interviews include news, strategy, and other topics related to the Expression and MSDN developer/designer center websites. Topics · Lori Dirk (@ 2:16) – http://expression.microsoft....
CodeCast Episode 13: IronPython and Dynamic Languages
March 06, 2009 05:00CodeCast Episode 13: IronPython and Dynamic Languages In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss upcoming developer event news and dynamic languages. This show’s interview is with Ken discussing IronPython with Harry Pierson, a program manager on Microsoft’s dynamic languages team. Topics · Harry Pierson (@ 13:50) – Blog: http://devhawk.net, Twitter: http://twitter.com/devhawk Links · TechEd 2009 – http://msteched.com (L.A., May 11-15, 2009) ...