Monday, November 30, 2009
CodeCast 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 support, DLL access, file access APIs, cross-domain, and web browser HTML control with plug-ins. The discussion on Silverlight 4 segment starts at minute marker 15:22.

Links

·         Silverlight 4 Beta - http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta

·         TechEd Europe 2009 - http://www.microsoft.com/europe/TechEd

Length: 35:43

Direct download: CodeCast_055.mp3 - Size: 33MB

Categories: TechEd 2009, Silverlight

Thursday, July 23, 2009
CodeCast 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/australia/Public

Length: 14:39

Direct download: CodeCast_035.mp3 - Size: 13MB

Categories: TechEd, TechEd 2009, TechEd Australia, Evangelists, Events

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, March 05, 2009
CodeCast 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)

·         DevTeach – http://devteach.com (Vancouver, June 8-12, 2009)

·         IronPython Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/ironpython (includes DLR resource and download links)

·         IronPython Studio - http://codeplex.com/IronPythonStudio

·         CODE Magazine article – Introducing IronPython by Harry Pierson

Length: 33:45

Direct download: CodeCast_013.mp3 - Size: 31MB

Categories: Dynamic Languages, IronPython, TechEd, TechEd 2009, CODE Magazine