.NET Rocks! is an Internet Audio Talk Show for Microsoft .NET Developers.
How many ways can you run containers on Azure? Carl and Richard talk to Tom Kerkhove about his experiences working with Azure container solutions. The conversation starts out talking about Azure Functions, which under-the-hood are handled in containers - but you don't control those containers at all. You can run Web Apps in Containers or use the Az…
.
.NET Rocks!


1
IdentityServer Update with Dominick Baier and Brock Allen
57:00
57:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
57:00
Time for an Identity Server update! Carl and Richard talk to Dominick Baier and Brock Allen about Identity Server. The conversation starts out focused on the evolution of security over the internet in the first place, including an update to OAuth - version 2.1. Then the conversation turns to IdentityServer itself, and how to sustain and grow develo…
.
.NET Rocks!


1
The State of Security in the Octoverse with Maya Kaczorowski
51:00
51:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
51:00
How secure is your software? Carl and Richard talk to Maya Kaczorowski of GitHub about The State of the Octoverse Security Report - one of three annual reports coming from GitHub about how software is being built. Maya talks about how software vulnerabilities are found and fixed, including the amazing statistic that vulnerabilities on average exist…
Happy New Year! To ring in the New Year, Carl and Richard talk Geek Out for a couple of hours! Topics include the Pandemic, Renewable Energy, the latest in Space and Electric Cars. Yeah, that's right, all the hits in one show! Richard talks about how our understanding of COVID-19 has evolved, and the impact of genetic technology and new vaccine con…
.NET 5 is shipped! What happens now? As part of the .BLD() Tech Talks XXL event in the Netherlands, Carl and Richard streamed interviewing Scott Hunter about .NET 5. The conversation turns to how the scope of .NET 5 focused in on how to help projects move from the standard framework onto .NET 5. Scott also dives into the ever-improving performance …
.
.NET Rocks!


1
Building a Flight Simulator in C# with Laura Laban
54:00
54:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
54:00
What does it take to make a flight simulator in C#? On a smartphone? Carl and Richard talk to Laura Laban about her experiences building Infinite Flight - starting with the Windows Phone in 2011! The conversation follows the history of using C# in smartphones, from WinPhone 7 through to MonoTouch, MonoGame, and Xamarin! Laura discusses the challeng…
.
.NET Rocks!


1
Building a TwitchBot in Blazor with Georgia Nelson
55:00
55:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
55:00
What can you use Blazor for? Carl and Richard talk to Georgia Nelson about GifBot, a Twitch bot Georgia has built using a variety of tools and languages (including Java) and today is C# and Blazor. Georgia talks about evolving the bot from version to version, looking for ways to make it easier for Twitch streamers to use. From WinForms to WPF to Bl…
With a new version of .NET out, it's time for a new version of Nuke! Carl and Richard talk to Matthias Koch about Nuke V5 - synchronizing the version number of Nuke with the version of .NET. Matthias talks about the philosophy of Nuke, focusing on creating builds using C# with package references and class inheritance. This leads to a conversation a…
.
.NET Rocks!


1
Hello World the Film with Shawn Wildermuth
53:00
53:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
53:00
Ever pivoted halfway through a software project? It happens in filmmaking too! Carl and Richard talk to Shawn Wildermuth about his experience making Hello World the Film. Shawn talks about starting out wanting to make a love story about being a programmer - and how anyone could be one. Until he discovered that it wasn't true: That getting into soft…
.
.NET Rocks!


1
The Microsoft Open Source Sandbox with Aaron Stannard
1:07:00
1:07:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:00
Can you make open source projects in the Microsoft ecosystem and live to tell the tale? Carl and Richard talk to Aaron Stannard about his view of the Microsoft open-source ecosystem, including the challenges of building and maintaining Akka.NET. Aaron talks about Microsoft being good producers of open source but not good consumers of open source - …
.
.NET Rocks!


1
The ROI of Good UX Design with Billy Hollis
56:00
56:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
56:00
Good user interface design makes your company money! Carl and Richard talk to Billy Hollis about his latest work around understanding the return on investment that exists with user interface design. Billy talks about a spreadsheet he's been using in presentations to actually look at the cost associated with bad UI designs, that require more keystro…
Cake is shipping! Carl and Richard talk to Mattias Karlsson about Cake, aka C# Make. First on the show in 2016, Cake has been through a lot - all the twists and turns of .NET Core, becoming a cross-platform product - it's not easy to be a good build system! But things are stable now and version 1 is released. Mattias talks about how Cake fits into …
.
.NET Rocks!


1
The Business Case of AI and Data Science with Joel Hulen and Kyle Bunting
1:04:00
1:04:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:04:00
Everyone wants AI - but where's the business value? Carl and Richard talk to Joel Hulen and Kyle Bunting about building machine learning models and what they can do for business. The conversation starts out with the typical AI-destroys-the-world debate, recognizing that these tools are just that, tools. Using them responsibly is important, but so i…
.
.NET Rocks!


1
The .NET Foundation Evolves with Layla Porter
50:00
50:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
50:00
A new .NET Foundation board is elected - what does it mean for you? Carl and Richard talk to Layla Porter about her new role on the .NET Foundation board and the goals of the foundation to grow its membership, bring more open source projects into the fold, support the maintainers of those projects and to broaden the reach of .NET everywhere. Layla …
.
.NET Rocks!


1
Migrating .NET Applications to Azure with Mike Richter
58:00
58:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
58:00
The pandemic is sending a lot of work to the cloud - are you ready to move? Carl and Richard talk to Mike Richter about his work helping companies move .NET applications into the cloud. Mike starts out with the hard truth, that moving your virtual machines into the cloud can get expensive. Better to take advantage of the Azure platform, starting wi…
.
.NET Rocks!


1
GitHub Codespaces with Anthony van der Hoorn
55:00
55:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
55:00
Can a development environment be online? Carl and Richard talk to Anthony van der Hoorn about GitHub Codespaces - the consolidation of a number of online development solutions from Microsoft including Visual Studio Online. Anthony talks about unifying the online dev environment for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code - recognizing that the two too…
.
.NET Rocks!


1
When Your Experiment Gets Popular with Jamie Rees
51:00
51:00
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
51:00
What happens when an open-source experiment becomes software people care about? Carl and Richard talk to Jamie Rees about his experiences creating Ombi - an open-source project that helps people managing Plex servers to handle requests from friends and family for more content. Jamie talks about creating Ombi as an experiment with NancyFX that soon …