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 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

Tuesday, November 04, 2008
CodeCast Episode 2: Live from PDC 2008

In our second episode of CodeCast we have Ken Levy, Gary Short, and Markus Egger report live from Microsoft PDC 2008 in Los Angeles, October 27-30. This show is about 30 minutes and broken into 3 discussion segments discussion the various news and buzz at this year's Microsoft PDC (Professional Developer Conference).

This show exits with music from the community: Rick Strahl's band Anti-Trust with a song called Day By Day. http://www.west-wind.com/music/Anti-Trust/.

Upcoming CodeCast episodes will include various additional PDC interviews with Microsoft employees, Microsoft partners, and community members.

Sessions from PDC are all online at http://microsoft.com/pdc. The next PDC has been announced for next year in L.A. again, November 17-20 2009.

Length: 31:48

Direct download: CodeCast_002.mp3 - Size: 29MB

Categories: PDC, PDC 2008, Events