Tuesday, February 08, 2011
CodeCast Episode 102: Surface 2.0 with Dr. Neil Roodyn

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Dr. Neil Roodyn on the news around the new Microsoft Surface 2.0 announced and shown at CES 2011. Topics include the new Surface 2.0 hardware, software, and scenarios the new version opens the door to, as well as possible use cases for integrating a Surface and a Kinect device.

Guest

·         Dr. Neil Roodyn - Blog: http://roodyn.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/DrNeil, nsquared - http://nsquared.com.au

Links

·         http://surface.com

·         http://twitter.com/MSSurface

Length: 56:10

Direct download: CodeCast_102.mp3 - Size: 51MB

Categories: Surface, Kinect

Wednesday, January 12, 2011
CodeCast Episode 100: 2010 Year in Review

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Markus Egger and Ken Levy discuss 2010 year in review including the following topics: Windows 7, Azure, Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, Lync, Async CTP, Bing, Windows Live Essentials 2011, IE 9, Silverlight, Kin, Windows Phone 7, Tablet/Slate PCs, Kinect, Surface, Microsoft executives/employee exodus, Microsoft retail stores. Near the end of the show, Ken and Markus review their 2010 predictions and goals, then make new ones for 2011.

Links

·         Markus Egger: @MarkusEgger

·         Ken Levy: @KenLevy

Length: 01:28:27

Twitter: @CodeCast

Direct download: CodeCast_100.mp3 - Size: 81MB

Categories: Windows 7, Azure, Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, Lync, Bing, Windows Live Essentials, IE 9, Silverlight, Windows Phone, Tablet PC, Kinect, Surface

Monday, September 20, 2010
CodeCast Episode 90: Surface and Multi-Touch UI 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, multi-touch applications, Bing Translator, and the Messenger Connect SDK. This discussion is a follow-up from a related CodeCast show with Dr. Neil (#34, July 2009).

Guest

·         Dr. Neil Roodyn - Blog: http://roodyn.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/DrNeil

Links

·         nsquared - http://nsquared.com.au

·         http://surface.com

·         http://twitter.com/MSSurface

·         Bing Translator - http://www.microsofttranslator.com/

·         Messenger Connect – http://dev.live.com

Length: 01:13:54

Direct download: CodeCast_090.mp3 - Size: 68MB

Categories: Surface, Bing, Messenger Connect

Thursday, September 24, 2009
CodeCast 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: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 3.0

·         Expression Blend

·         Microsoft WPF and Windows Forms Site

Length: 55:17

Direct download: CodeCast_047.mp3 - Size: 51MB

Categories: WPF, Silverlight, Expression, Surface

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
CodeCast 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

·         nsquared - http://nsquared.com.au

·         http://surface.com

·         http://twitter.com/MSSurface

Length: 61:00

Direct download: CodeCast_034.mp3 - Size: 56MB

Categories: Windows 7, Surface, Multi-Touch, NUI, iPhone, iPhone SDK, Silverlight, Expression Studio, Expression Blend, Twitter, Windows

Thursday, January 08, 2009
CodeCast Episode 9: 2008 Year in Review

Our special 2008 year in review episode with hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger, joined by special guest co-host Rick Strahl of West Wind Technologies.

Topics

·         Visual Studio (@ 2:37)

·         Languages (@ 6:28)

·         SQL Server (@ 10:15)

·         Windows (@ 12:57)

·         WPF/Silverlight (@ 18:10)

·         SOA/WCF (@ 24:56)

·         IIS/ASP.NET (@ 29:55)

·         VSX (@ 36:07)

·         Tablet/Touch/Surface (@ 40:20)

·         Mobile (@ 43:07)

·         Browsers (@ 51:14)

·         Social Networking/Media and Web 2.0 (@ 59:02)

·         The "one big thing" in 2008 discussion (@ 1:05:57)

·         Our 2009 new year's resolutions for business discussion (@ 1:08:24)

Links

·         CoDe Magazine – http://codemag.com

Length: 1:12:52

Direct download: CodeCast_009.mp3 - Size: 67MB

Categories: Visual Studio, SQL Server, Windows, WPF, Silverlight, IIS, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, VSX, Surface, Tablet PC, NUI, iPhone, iPod, Windows Mobile, CODE Magazine

Thursday, December 18, 2008
CodeCast Episode 7: Twitter, F#, WPF, Surface

In episode 7, co-hosts Markus Egger and Gary Short join Ken Levy discussion news, programming languages increasing in usage such as F#, and using Twitter within a business environment. This episode interview iclues Markus Egger interviewing Tim Huckaby from VS DevConnections 2008 discussing WPF and the Microsoft Surface.

Interview

·         Tim Huckaby (@ 29:27): Tim Huckaby

News and gadget links

·         F# - http://msdn.com/fsharp

·         Twitter

Book Links

• Foundations of F# on Amazon.com

Length: 39:59

Direct download: CodeCast_007.mp3 - Size: 37MB

Categories: F#, WPF, Surface, Twitter, DevConnections 2008, DevConnections

Thursday, November 27, 2008
CodeCast Episode 5: VSX, VSIP, Aggiorno, DBI-Tech Controls

This 5^th episode of CodeCast includes host Ken Levy with a new segment on news and gadgets, and three interviews all related to VSX and VSIP (Visual Studio Extensibility and Visual Studio Industry Partners). Interviews are with Microsoft and with two different Microsoft partners who are VSIP members. Missing from this show are co-hosts Markus Egger and Gary Short who where both at various conferences and other travel.

Interviews

·         Terry Clancy (@ 9:19) http://msdn.com/vsx, http://msdn.com/vsip,  http://visualstudiogallery.com/

·         Federico Zoufaly (@ 18:44): Aggiorno

·         Alan Sheed (@ 25:00): DBI-Technologies

News and Gadget links

·         Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1

·         Live Search SDK, http://dev.live.com

·         Windows Live Agents 5.1

·         Microsoft .NET Services SDK

·         Azure Services Training Kit - PDC Preview

·         Microsoft Surface Data Sheet

·         Microsoft Store

·         Safari Books Online

·         Microsoft Downloads

·         Microsoft Download (Silverlight beta version)

·         Zune Client 3.1

·         Zune Pass

There is no exit music from a community band in this episode but we will include more in random future episodes as it becomes available to us. We are working on improvements to the audio recordings both in studio and with interviews. These interviews were all recording at PDC, and we have improved our recording techniques since then for interviews. We will try to keep each show at around 30 minutes each like this one. episode 7 we should be out of what we might consider CodeCast beta mode. J

Length: 30:27

Direct download: CodeCast_005.mp3 - Size: 28MB

Categories: VSX, VSIP, Azure, Surface, Microsoft Store, Safari, Zune

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

Thursday, October 23, 2008
CodeCast Episode 1: The Pilot

Welcome to the CodeCast, the Late Night Show for .NET Developers, with your hosts Ken Levy, Gary Short, and Markus Egger.

This episode introduces the podcast, the hosts, CoDe Magazine, as well as previews the upcoming PDC 2008 (Microsoft Professional Developer Conference) and several of the technologies expected to make an appearance at the event.

Links for references made in the show:

1. Microsoft Surface video referenced in episode 1: http://snurl.com/4j9jv
2. Xiine URL as referenced in the show: www.Xiine.com

For the special CoDe Magazine subscription offer mentioned in the show, click here.

Direct download: CodeCast_001.mp3 - Size: 41MB

Categories: CODE Magazine, Surface, Xiine, PDC, PDC 2008, Events