Wednesday, November 24, 2010
CodeCast Episode 97: Microsoft Tag with Didier Caron

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Didier Caron of Sparked in the Netherlands. Didier goes through a detailed introduction of Microsoft Tag, various scenarios of how he has used Tag as a developer at Sparked and for the SDN.nl developer events, creating Tags, scenarios for a wide variety of use cases for Tag, and .NET developer APIs using the Microsoft Tag SDK.

Guest

Length: 43:15

Direct download: CodeCast_097.mp3 - Size: 40MB

Categories: Microsoft Tag

Wednesday, November 17, 2010
CodeCast Episode 96: Cloud Computing with Remi Caron

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Remi Caron of Sparked in the Netherlands, and is also president of SDN.nl. Remi discusses in-depth the cloud computing for .NET developers including hosting, application architecture, application hosting (Azure), databases in the cloud (SQL Azure), and the paradigm shift in the business model of the user side of cloud-based applications.

Guest

·         Remi Caron: @The_Undutchable, Blog: http://remicaron.wordpress.com

Links

·         http://microsoft.com/cloud

·         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

·         http://sdn.nl

Length: 55:04

Direct download: CodeCast_096.mp3 - Size: 56MB

Categories: Cloud Computing, Azure, SQL Azure

Sunday, November 07, 2010
CodeCast Episode 95: LightSwitch Scenarios with Beth Massi

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Beth Massi, a senior program manager at Microsoft on the BizApps team who build the Visual Studio tools for Azure, Office, SharePoint, and Visual Studio LightSwitch. Beth is also a community champion for business applications and Visual Basic developers. In this episode, Beth discusses the overall architecture of LightSwitch, the various phases of developing a LightSwitch application, options for a variety of deployment methods, and a range of scenarios for .NET and non-professional developers for using LightSwitch.

Guest

·         Beth Massi - Blog: http://BethMassi.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/BethMassi

Links

·         LightSwitch Developer Center – http://msdn.com/lightswitch

Length: 55:04

Direct download: CodeCast_095.mp3 - Size: 50MB

Categories: LightSwitch, Visual Studio 2010

Wednesday, November 03, 2010
CodeCast Episode 94: PDC 2010 Summary - Silverlight, Azure, Async for C#/VB

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Gary Short and Markus Egger discuss news and announcements from PDC 2010, including the changes in strategy for future versions of Silverlight, Azure, and the announcement of the new Async programming features coming in the next versions of the C# and VB languages.

Links

·         Silverlight and PDC message from Microsoft

·         http://player.microsoftpdc.com

·         http://msdn.com/vstudio/async  

Length: 55:23

Direct download: CodeCast_094.mp3 - Size: 51MB

Categories: PDC, Silverlight, Azure, C#, Visual Basic, Async