Friday, March 19, 2010
CodeCast Episode 74: MIX10 News on WinPhone7, Silverlight 4, and IE 9

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss the three primary news and announcement details from MIX10 – Windows Phone 7 Series developer story, Silverlight 4, and Internet Explorer 9 (HTML5 and CSS3).

Links

·         MIX10 session videos

·         IE 9 test drive

·         Windows Phone 7 developer center

·         Windows Phone 7 development blog

·         Silverlight 4 tools

·         @MSDN on Twitter

Length: 01:06:56

Direct download: CodeCast_074.mp3 - Size: 61MB

Categories: MIX10, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Internet Explorer, IE 9

Thursday, April 02, 2009
CodeCast 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 language M in his new role on the Oslo team.

Topics

·         Paul Vick (@ 21:52) – Blog: http://panopticoncentral.net, Twitter: http://twitter.com/paulvick

Links

·         MIX09 Videos - http://videos.visitmix.com

·         IE8 CODE Focus Magazine – http://code-magazine.com/focus

·         Oslo developer center – http://msdn.com/oslo

Length: 38:13

Direct download: CodeCast_015.mp3 - Size: 35MB

Categories: MIX, MIX 09, DevConnections, DevConnections 2009, TechEd, TechEd 2009, PDC, PDC 2009, Events, Silverlight, Expression Blend, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, Internet Explorer, DSL, M, Oslo

Thursday, February 19, 2009
CodeCast Episode 12: Visual Basic and the VB Community

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss Internet Explorer 8, Windows 7 beta, Kindle and Sony eBook readers, and Visual Studio 2010. Ken has two in-depth interviews on the topic of Visual Basic, .NET languages, and the VB community. The first interview is with VB community program manager Lisa Feigenbaum and the second is with VB program manager Dustin Campbell.

Topics

·         Lisa Feigenbaum (@ 20:32) – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam, Twitter: http://twitter.com/lisafeig

·         Dustin Campbell (@ 35:15) – Blog: http://diditwith.net, Twitter: http://twitter.com/dcampbell

Links

·         IE8 issue of CODE Focus magazine – http://code-magazine.com/focus

·         Internet Explorer 8 – http://microsoft.com/ie

·         Windows Live Essentials - http://download.live.com

·         Amazon Kindle – http://amazon.com/kindle

Length: 50:07

Direct download: CodeCast_012.mp3 - Size: 46MB

Categories: Windows 7, Windows, Internet Explorer, Sony Reader, Kindle, Visual Basic, CODE Focus, Live

Thursday, November 13, 2008
CodeCast Episode 4: State of .NET, IE8, ASP.NET MVC, and O'Reilly Media

Hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss the new State of .NET events, IE8, ASP.NET MVC, followed by an interview from PDC with two editors from O'Reilly Media. More on ASP.NET MVC can be found at http://asp.net/mvc.

• Interview (@ 27:40): John Osborn and Laurel Ruma from O'Reilly Media discussing new books, eBooks, Safari, and more. http://oreilly.com/. John is on Twitter at http://twitter.com/johnatoreilly/ and Laurel is at http://twitter.com/laurelatoreilly.

The exit music is from Rick Strahl's band Two Bit Thief, song is City Boys - http://west-wind.com/music/Two%20Bit%20Thief/.

Length: 38:18

Direct download: CodeCast_004.mp3 - Size: 35MB

Categories: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, eBooks, Internet Explorer, PDC, PDC 2008, Events, State of .NET

Thursday, November 06, 2008
CodeCast Episode 3: PDC, C#, IE8, and Surface

In this third CodeCast show, hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss a quick final summary of PDC 2008, then introduce a series of interviews with folks from Microsoft interviewed at PDC:

• Interview 1 (9:29): C# community and C# 4.0 0 - Charlie Calvert - http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie
  
• Interview 2 (21:51): IE 8 for developers - Pete LePage - http://blogs.msdn.com/petel
  
• Interview 3 (29:26): Surface - Robert Levy - http://blogs.msdn.com/surface

The exit music is from Rick Strahl's band Anti-Trust, song is No Privacy - http://west-wind.com/music/anti-trust/

Length: 42:24

Direct download: CodeCast_003.mp3 - Size: 39MB

Categories: C#, PDC, Internet Explorer, Surface, PDC 2008, Events