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In this episode Woody sat down two members of the Patterns & Practices Cloud Guidance team at Microsoft to discuss Azure and the ways to get legacy applications to the Cloud. Also discussed during the interview was SQL Azure and Identity and Security in Azure. Thanks to our guests this episode Scott is a Developer Lead in the patterns & practices group at Microsoft. He led the development team that created that group’s recently released...

In this episode Keith and Woody sit down with Jim Zimmerman to discuss how Jim builds Facebook applications using Windows Azure. Jim was an important developer that worked and released the Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook project on Codeplex. The project was released to give the community a good starter kit for getting Facebook apps up and running in Windows Azure. Thanks to our guest this episode Jim Zimmerman has been an ASP.NET MVP for four...

In this episode Woody sat down shortly after Silverlight 4 was updated in May 2010 with John Papa. The keys to this update was to get both the WCF RIA Services v1.0 and the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 officially released and into developers hands. Woody and John discussed these updates and also how developers can learn more about designing and developing great RIA applications with Silverlight 4. Thanks to our guest this episode ...

In this episode Keith and Woody sat down at PDC09 with two members of the Windows Server AppFabric team, Ford McKinstry and Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, to discuss the new server feature. Windows Server AppFabric is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on IIS. Thanks to our guests this episode Ford McKinstry is from the Application Server Group at Microsoft where he...

In this episode Keith and Woody sat down with Andrew Duthie to discuss how the development community can keep track of user groups, code camps and conferences across the United States.  Andrew is the creator of Community Megaphone and he shares why he created the site, its goal, and the benefit to those organizing or looking for events to attend.Thanks to our guest this episode   G. Andrew Duthie, aka .net DEvHammer,...

In this episode, Woody sat down with Mike Flasko at MIX10 to chat about OData that was announced on the second day of the conference. OData is an open protocol for sharing data. It provides a way to break down data silos and increase the shared value of data by creating an ecosystem in which data consumers can interoperate with data producers in a way that is far more powerful than currently possible, enabling more applications to make sense of a broader set of data.Thanks to our guest this episode ...

Have you always wanted to learn more about debugging your software? Or just really want to know what your software is doing especially when it has bugs? We have a treat for you. In this episode, Keith and Woody sat down with Scott Walker to get some tips and tricks for setting up a debugging environment first and then how to use the tools properly to fix those nasty errors your customers and users keep having.Thanks to our guest this episode ...

In this episode, Keith and Woody sat down with Matt Winkler, the Program Manager for the Workflow Foundation team at Microsoft, to discuss Workflow Foundation 4.0.  We learn from Matt how this release the team revisited the core of WF to increase performance and productivity as well as provide the best experience for developers adopting WF and to enable WF to continue to be a strong foundational component that you can build on in your applications.Thanks to our guest this episode ...

Ever wonder how your favorite features from C#, VB.NET and F# get selected, implemented and finally reach your fingers? We did too and we found a great person to get the behind the scenes story from Building 41 in Redmond. In this episode, Keith and Woody sat down with Luca Bolognese, former Group Program Manager at Microsoft, to discuss how the languages team decides which features to include in the .NET languages.  We learn also what is coming in NET 4.  Join us for this episode as we...

In this episode Keith and Woody sat down with Udi Dahan, the creator of NServiceBus, to discuss and learn more about this open source messaging framework for designing distributed .NET enterprise systems. The guys chat about how to work with NServiceBus and the best practices with the framework.Thanks to our guest this episode Udi Dahan is The Software Simplist, an internationally renowned expert on software architecture...