Thursday, May 28, 2009
CodeCast Episode 24: MDSN Forums and msdn.com with Jeremy Kelley

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Jeremy Kelley of Microsoft, who is a program manager on the MSDN Forums team. Jeremy discusses the state and future of MSDN forums, the msdn.com dev centers, developer feedback, and other community related topics for developers on the Microsoft platform.

Guests

·         Jeremy Kelley – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/JeremyKelley, Twitter: http://twitter.com/Fizzlenik

Links

·         MSDN Forums: http://forums.msdn.com

Length: 24:25

Direct download: CodeCast_024.mp3 - Size: 22MB

Categories: MSDN

Thursday, May 21, 2009
CodeCast Episode 23: VS 2010 Extension Manager and Visual Studio Gallery

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Quan To and Anthony Cangialosi of the Visual Studio Platform team at Microsoft. The discussion goes into new details about the Extension Manager in Visual Studio 2010 and the enhancements to the Visual Studio Gallery (http://visualstudiogallery.com) to allow hosting extensions online allowing them to be installed from within the VS IDE. Also discussed, enhancements to the current and upcoming versions of the Visual Studio SDK for creating free and product based extensions.

Guests

·         Quan To – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/quanto

·         Anthony Cangialosi – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/acangialosi, Twitter: http://twitter.com/acangialosi

Links

·         Visual Studio Gallery – http://visualstudiogallery.com

·         VSX Team Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam

·         VSX on Twitter – http://twitter.com/VSX

Length: 34:49

Direct download: CodeCast_023.mp3 - Size: 32MB

Categories: Visual Studio Gallery, VSX, Visual Studio

Thursday, May 14, 2009
CodeCast Episode 22: F# with Chris Smith

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Chris Smith from Microsoft’s F# language team on F#, functional programming, his new F# book, F# for VS 2008, upcoming F# inclusion in VS 2010, and why F# is useful to C# and VB developers.

Guests

·         Chris Smith – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith, Twitter: http://twitter.com/aChrisSmith

Links

·         Programming F# by Chris Smith

·         F# Developer Center – http://msdn.com/fsharp

Length: 28:21

Direct download: CodeCast_022.mp3 - Size: 26MB

Categories: Languages, C#, F#, Visual Basic, Visual Studio

Thursday, May 07, 2009
CodeCast Episode 21: .NET, Java, Oracle-Sun, New IT Cold War with Ted Neward

Ken Levy interviews Ted Neward in an in-depth 71 minute discussion around the impact of Oracle buying Sun Microsystems and how it relates to Java, MySQL, Microsoft, .NET programming languages, IBM, and other companies and topics related in the IT world.

Guests

·         Ted Neward (@ 27:28) – Blog: http://blogs.tedneward.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/TedNeward

Length: 01:12:28

Direct download: CodeCast_021.mp3 - Size: 66MB

Categories: Oracle, Sun, Java, MySQL, Languages, IBM

Tuesday, May 05, 2009
CodeCast Episode 20: Biz Apps Team and VB with Beth Massi

Co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss Expression and XAML, and tech/gadget talk on the upcoming iPhone 3.0 OS and the upcoming ZuneHD. The show interview is Ken interviewing Beth Massi, Microsoft, program manager on Microsoft’s BizApps team in the VS group. Beth discusses her work over the past two years at Microsoft on the VB team and now on the BizApps team, and chat about some cool new features and content in Visual Studio 2010.

Topics

·         Beth Massi (@ 27:28) – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi

Links

·         VB Team Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam

·         VB Developer Center – http://msdn.com/vbasic

·         VSTO Developer Center – http://msdn.com/vsto

·         Beth Massi on Channel 9

Length: 42:00

Direct download: CodeCast_020.mp3 - Size: 38MB

Categories: XAML, Expression Blend, Expression Studio, Visual Basic, Visual Studio, Office Development, Channel 9