.NET Rocks! – .NET Success Stories

This is the first of a series of shows we are going to do this year highlighting .NET Success Stories; companies that have implemented .NET applications successfully as either pilot projects or production projects. Microsoft Download Link…

Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity” CTP2

“Velocity” is a distributed in-memory application cache platform for developing scalable, high-performance applications. “Velocity” can be used to cache any common language runtime (CLR) object and provides access through simple APIs. The key aspects of “Velocity” are distributed cache performance, scalabily, and availability. Microsoft Download Link…

.NET Rocks! – Glenn Block and Brian Noyes on Prism

While at TechEd 2008 in Orlando Carl and Richard recorded this interview with Glenn Block from Microsoft and Brian Noyes from iDesign about the Prism project, formally named Composite Application Guidance, which promises to simplify and organize WPF development projects. Microsoft Download Link…

.NET Rocks! – James Kovacs Inverts our Control!

James Kovacs talks about the Castle Windsor project, and gives the clearest definitions of Inversion of Control (IOC) containers, Dependency Injection, and the reasons why we need to think about these techniques. Critical listening for all .NET developers. Microsoft Download Link…