SearchVB.com's monthly podcasts give site members a chance to listen to the latest news in .NET development. These downloadable segments feature interviews with experts in the field, news roundups and commentary from SearchVB.com editors.
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Podcast 13: An introduction to Microsoft Astoria (Nov. 2, 2007)
Astoria is a Microsoft project geared toward Web APIs for data access. It makes heavy use of the ADO.NET Entity Framework data model. This tipcast, offers an introduction to this new data model and how it is able to leverage REST. Listen on your PC or download to your favorite mobile device.
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Podcast 12: The Visual Studio 2005 SP1 update for Windows Vista (June 28, 2007)
Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista a couple months ago, but with all the big news about Silverlight and Visual Studio Orcas, there's a good chance developers may not have noticed. This podcast revisits the service pack and highlights three points of note. Listen on your PC or download to your favorite mobile device.
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Podcast 11: Silverlight in the Web development spotlight (May 4, 2007)
Brian Goldfarb of Microsoft offers an introduction to Silverlight, the tool for building rich Internet applications formerly known as Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere, and explains what developers are able to do with it. Listen on your PC or download to your favorite mobile device.
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Podcast 10: ASP.NET AJAX gurus explain the framework inside and out (April 3, 2007)
Two authors of the forthcoming ASP.NET AJAX in Action, David Barkol and Rama Krishna Vavilala, chat with SearchVB.com about the ins and outs of the framework. Topics include the JavaScript library within ASP.NET AJAX, the separate set of controls and extensions known as the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, and the framework's robust server-side programming model. Listen on your PC or download to your favorite mobile device.
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Podcast 9: .NET Development and Windows Vista (Feb. 16, 2007)
Windows Vista is finally here, and with it comes a new UI for the Office suite, a more robust SharePoint and plenty "plumbing" code that need not be rewritten time and time again. Bill Steele and Anand Iyer, two MSDN developer evangelists, recently talked to SearchVB.com about these new features and what they will mean for .NET developers.Listen on your PC or download to your favorite mobile device.
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Podcast 8: Events highlight .NET 3.0, Ajax and Visual Studio (Nov. 3, 2006)
It was a busy month of October at SearchVB.com. Three different conferences -- the .NET 3.0 Roadshow, the Ajax Experience and VSLive -- recently came to the Boston area. Along with free T shirts, pens and notepads, site editor Brian Eastwood took away from each conference several lessons for better development. Listen on your PC or download to your favorite mobile device.
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Podcast 7: What readers said about the state of Visual Basic (Aug. 4, 2006)
Each year SearchVB.com conducts a reader survey to get a sense of what's important to .NET development community. In this podcast, site editor Brian Eastwood takes a brief look at who SearchVB.com readers are and what they do and shares the thoughts of two readers -- one who sees growth in C# development and one who hopes developers can climb the corporate ladder and become IT advocates. Listen on your PC or download to your favorite mobile device.
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Podcast 6: Craig McMurtry on Windows Communication Foundation 101 (June 19, 2006)
One of the hottest selling books at Tech Ed was Windows Communication Foundation Hands-on! from Sams Publishing. In this podcast, associate editor Brian Eastwood chats with Craig McMurtry, one of the book's authors, about the address-binding-contract model and other basics for working with WCF. Listen on your PC or download to your favorite mobile device.
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Podcast 5: At Tech Ed, .NET 3.0 makes an appearance (June 16, 2006)
Associate Editor Brian Eastwood covers David Chappell's presentation on .NET 3.0, formerly known as WinFX. Listen on your PC or download to your favorite mobile device.
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Podcast 4: Reaction to the Tech Ed 2006 keynote (June 12, 2006)
Site Editor Jack Vaughan offers his thoughts on Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie's keynote address, in which he identified software as a service as the next major tech disruption. Other Microsoft leaders touted system and security improvements. Listen on your PC or download to your favorite mobile device.
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Podcast 3: Mike Gunderloy on the pros and cons of Atlas (May 5, 2006)
Atlas offers a large set of frameworks and class libraries, mainly so .NET folks need not become JavaScript experts overnight. However, contributing columnist Mike Gunderloy tells us, developers should keep a few things in mind before they rush headlong into Atlas. Listen on your PC or download to your favorite mobile device.
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Podcast 2: MIX06, Patterns & Practices and Apple opens a window (April 11, 2006)
SearchVB.com editors Jack Vaughan and Brian Eastwood offer insight into two recent Microsoft events -- the design pattern oriented patterns & practices Summit and the MIX06 show for Web developers and designers. Listen on your PC or download to your favorite mobile device.
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Podcast 1: VB 6, VB.NET and a 'feet' of development (March 6, 2006)
This podcast examines Microsoft's evolving opinion of VB developers, the benefits and costs of making the move to VB.NET and Microsoft's support for VB 6 applications in Vista. We also offer our take on new technology coming out of Redmond that should "step up" your productivity. Listen on your PC or download to your favorite mobile device.
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