Thursday, June 25, 2009
CodeCast Episode 28: Adding Features to C# and VB Compilers with Sam Ng

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Sam Ng who is a developer on the C# compiler team at Microsoft, discussing processes for adding new features to the C# compiler and language, including new features coming in Visual Studio 2010.

Guests

·         Sam Ng – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/samng

Links

·         Channel 9: Inside C# 4.0: dynamic typing, optional parameters, covariance and contravariance

Length: 30:38

Direct download: CodeCast_028.mp3 - Size: 28MB

Categories: Languages, C#, Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2010, Channel 9

Thursday, June 18, 2009
CodeCast Episode 27: Extensible Start Page in Visual Studio 2010 with Noah Coad

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Noah Coad who is a program manager on the Visual Studio Platform team. Noah is working on bringing various VS IDE UI components into WPF for VS 2010, and discusses his efforts on the new Visual Studio 2010 IDE including the cool new customizable and extensible WPF/XAML based Start Page.

Guests

·         Noah Coad - Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc, Twitter: http://twitter.com/noahcoad

Links

·         Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Start Page Customization

Length: 12:45

Direct download: CodeCast_027.mp3 - Size: 12MB

Categories: , XAML, WPF, VSX, Visual Studio

Thursday, June 11, 2009
CodeCast Episode 26: IronRuby with Jimmy Schementi

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Jimmy Schementi who is a program manager on the IronRuby team at Microsoft. Jimmy discusses his role on the IronRuby team, how IronRuby relates to Microsoft’s other .NET program languages, scenarios for using IronRuby, and Microsoft’s roadmap for IronRuby.

Guests

·         Jimmy Schementi – Blog: http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/jschementi

Links

·         IronRuby homepage: http://ironruby.net

·         Jimmy Schementi on Channel 9: Inside IronRuby

Direct download: CodeCast_026.mp3 - Size: 39MB

Categories: Languages, IronRuby, Dynamic Languages, Channel 9

Thursday, June 04, 2009
CodeCast Episode 25: Advanced .NET Programming with Eric Lippert

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Eric Lippert who is a senior software design engineer at Microsoft. Eric has been working at Microsoft on developer tools and languages since 1996, and has assisted with the design and implementation of VBScript, JScript, JScript .NET, Windows Script Host, Visual Studio Tools for Office and C#.

Some of the many questions and topics Eric discusses include: What forces influence language designers when (1) choosing what features go into a language and (2) deciding how those features are exposed to the user? Why is LINQ syntax structured they way it is relative to standard SQL? How does the C# compiler functionality reflect how C# programming is thought of and designed? What process does Microsoft use in general to decide what goes into the next major release of the languages?

Guests

·         Eric Lippert – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert

Links

·         Eric Lippert on Channel 9

Length:43:34

Direct download: CodeCast_025.mp3 - Size: 40MB

Categories: Languages, LINQ, SQL Server, C#, Channel 9