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Have you checked out Azure Container Apps lately? Carl and Richard talk to Paul Yuknewicz and Jan Kalis about how they have sped up startup time with Container Apps using a feature called Express, and then on to the big news - Sandboxes. Sandboxes let you experiment with Azure Container Apps with managed identity to access Azure Connectors to all sorts of resources, both within Azure and outside it - Salesforce, SAP, etc. It's an effective and secure strategy for building applications, but also for experimenting with agents - at no point does the agent actually have control of any credentials. If you haven't looked at ACA lately, you need to check out these latest features!

DNSimple has a CLI! Carl and Richard talk to DNSimple CEO Anthony Eden about the evolution of the DNSimple CLI in today's software market. DNSimple provides DNS, domain registrar, and certificate services - so why does it need a CLI? Anthony talks about earlier experiments with CLIs for folks who didn't want to use the web interface. But today, large language models change the game and work best with a CLI - those specific commands mean more accurate results from LLMs, which make for a powerful natural language interface experience. The conversation covers the new tooling around LLMs, how the registrar market has evolved, changes to certificates, and ICANN's recent announcement of new gTLDs. DNSimple continues to evolve with the times! Check the show notes for a link for ten dollars off anything at DNSimple!

Do data centers in space make any sense? Time for a rare summer-time Geek Out! Richard chats with Carl about all the hype surrounding building orbital data centers for AI workloads. Richard points out that enthusiasm for this idea surged in the fall of 2025, when the backlash against ground data centers peaked. But could you actually make the orbital data centers work? The conversation works through a reasonable satellite design, covering off the details of power, cooling, communications, and satellite management. But how many satellites would be enough? This leads to an exploration of Kessler Syndrome, where orbital debris gets out of control - and what we can reasonably do about it. Which leads to another idea - how do we make ground-based data centers not suck?

Can tooling make event sourcing implementations easier? Carl and Richard talk to Einar Ingebrigsten about his work on cratis.io - a set of open-source tools for implementing event sourcing in your application. Einar discusses the foundational elements of event sourcing and the common implementation patterns he developed at Cratis. With extensive support for .NET, Cratis provides tooling for data storage, event response, replay management, and much more. Also in development is Cratis Studio for collaborating visually on an event model - and generating the code in the process. 

Is it time to build your own agent harness? Carl and Richard talk to Emmz Rendle about her work on Daemonic AI, which gives you more control over which models and tooling you use to build software with agents. Emmz talks about the upcoming rug pull in AI software development tools, where prices are rising, and services are being restricted. Having enough control to choose when to run locally becomes key to being productive at a reasonable price. Being able to pick-and-choose what agents and configurations to use for each of the agent roles you want to implement is super powerful - check out the GitHub project and take it for a spin!

What settings, configurations, and workflows do you use for every .NET app? Carl and Richard talk to Scott Sauber about his list - from organizing folders by feature, to logging, security, and testing. Scott talks about enforcing rules like treating warnings as errors so you won't ignore important warnings, and validation in the build, to make applications more reliable. Each of these items represents some work, but in the end, your application will be higher quality and more reliable. Which ones are you already doing?

Large Language Models can generate a lot of text - but is it any good? Carl and Richard talk to Vishwas Lele about his ongoing efforts at pWin.ai to build tools for responding to government RFPs. Vishwas focuses on the quality problem - both the quality of the incoming RFP and the quality of the responding proposal. How do you determine the key requirements of an RFP reliably? And when it comes to the response, how do you provide measurable results for a response? The conversation digs into a change in workflow that benefits the RFP process regardless of tooling - and gives hints to the patterns of success with LLMs!

Ready to go nano? Carl and Richard talk to José Simões about the open source .NET nanoFramework - a community-driven project to provide .NET for embedded systems. José talks about the evolution from the .NET microFramework, to something even smaller, while at the same time, microcontrollers have gotten much more powerful. The conversation looks beyond the hobbyist and educational uses of these systems into commercial IoT applications. The development cycle is one you'll recognize, working in Visual Studio (or Visual Studio Code) and executing against an emulator, or to the actual controller via USB. And yes, you can set breakpoint in the controller!

Francesco Balena talks about his groundbreaking work in migrating VB6 applications to VB.NETSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Donald Farmer about Project Gemini, which brings Analysis Services to Excel in a very elegant way.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Shawn Wildermuth talks about the importance and significance of declarative User Interfaces in the context of WPF and Silverlight.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Mark Miller and Billy Hollis go head to head on User Interface. The conversation ranges from WPF and Silverlight to Visual Studio and Blend to whatever else they felt like talking about...Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Software Transactional Memory (shipping as part of .NET 4.0) represents the next generation in writing code that utilizes multiple cores. The best part is, the code gets much more simple!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

MLB is back to talk to Carl and Richard about the Claims-Based Security Model.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Steven Borg talks about his experiences delivering solutions with Microsoft Team System, with a special focus on automated builds.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Philip Japikse talks about his experiences working on Hope Mongers, a volunteer-run asp.net-based website that brings charity projects together with donators.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This conversation with Kent Tegels starts with SSIS and goes from there, like most good .NET Rocks! shows.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Leon Gersing about his love affair with Ruby, which he so elequently spoke of as an audience member at DevLink in Nashville (show #476).Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Today's show is a previously recorded conversation with Martin Woodward about Team System.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Jonathan Carlson, Bob Davidson, David Heckerman, and Carl Kadie from Microsoft Research about their efforts to find vaccines for HIV using Microsoft technologies.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Ben Hall and Jeff McWherter talk with Carl and Richard about testing ASP.NET applications.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

John Petersen talks about software patents, End User License Agreements, contracts, and other pains in the backside that we'd rather not think about.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Chris Menegay is back to talk about using Team Foundation Server for ALM (Application Lifecycle Management).Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Recorded live at devLink in Nashville, Tennessee. Billy Hollis, Kathleen Dollard, Jim Holmes, and Josh Holmes (no relation) discuss the issue of the complexity of software development. Several .NET celebrities in the audience also chimed in.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

James Kovacs is back to talk about how the idea of Convention over Configuration has transformed the way we think about software development, leading to better usability and productivity.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Christian Gross talks about the nascent death of the professional speaker. What is happening to the big technical conferences? How does that fare for the pro speaker? Are the glory days over? Does anyone care?Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Steve Evans talks to Richard and Carl about what developers need to know on the IT side of technology.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Vishwas is back to talk about his experiences programming for Microsoft Windows Azure. Vishwas did a port of the famous DinnerNow website using the Azure cloud computing platform.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Nate Kohari about lean project management, and Zen, a lean project management tool.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Brad Cunningham talks about developing touch-based applications, and the various technologies manufacturers are using for touch-based applications.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Alert listener and iPhone developer Glenn Howes gives us the real story on iPhone development from a different perspective.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Emre Kiciman and Mark Friedman talk about bringing AjaxView to Visual Studio. Emre previously talked about AjaxView on .NET Rocks when it was a Microsoft Research project to enable developers to profile the behavior of JavaScript on the browser. Since then, AjaxView has been developed as the Microsoft Visual Studio AJAX Profiling Extensions. Mark as part of the Studio team focused on making AjaxView work in Studio. The conversation not only digs into what AjaxView can do for a developer, but the challenges of bringing a research project to the mainstream.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Ananth B talks about Brahma, an open-source library written for the .NET 3.5 framework (in C# 3.0), to provide high level access to parallel streaming computations on a variety of processors. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Roman Schindlauer on Complex Event Processing (CEP) and Microsoft's Platform for CEP using SQL Server.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Aaron Erickson talks with Carl and Richard about the various 7 anti-patterns of the tech consulting business. His book is a veritable survival guide for consultants.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Brian Noyes talks about Workflow Foundation 4.0Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Pual Stubbs from Microsoft talks about the marriage of Silverlight and Sharepoint.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Forte is back talking about all the options .NET developers have for data access, and gives some guidelines as to when to use what.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Scott Ambler from IBM talks about the Agile Process Maturity Model, which defines three levels of Agile methodology.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Michael Stiefel is back to talk about the realities of Cloud Computing including offerings from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Azure.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talked to Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack live on stage at the Norweigian Developer's Conference last week about new and cool toys and technology.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Sahil Malik tells us what every developer should know about Sharepoint.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

TweetSharp is a .NET library for developing Twitter applications. Yeah, that's what I thought too until we talked to these guys! You'll want it.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

We catch up with Paul Randal, previously with the Microsoft SQL Server team, about all the little details of SQL Server all developers should know.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rory Blyth comes back to .NET Rocks! with stories of a .NET developer turned iPhone developer. Learn how the other half lives!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Peter Vogel talks about code generation pros, cons, technologies, and strategies from Visual Studio to T4Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Eric Lee from Microsoft talks about his experiences developing live demos for the likes of Steve Ballmer. Then he digs into his codeplex project, WinForms to WPF. Check it out on codeplex!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Daniel Simmons is back this time to talk about the new features of ADO.NET Entity Framework version 4.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

The .NET dudes talk to Nicholas Blumhardt about Autofac, an IoC container that uses lambda expressions in C# 3.0 to create components.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Nickolas Gustafsson and Josh Phillips about Axum, a new language developed specifically for parallelism.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations