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The one and only Billy Hollis comes to dnrTV from the PDC in Los Angeles to show us some basics of XAML and also some things you may not know.

Bio
Billy Hollis and Rockford Lhotka had the first VB.NET book on the market from Wrox Press. Since then, Billy has taught VB.NET classes and done consulting for major companies, as well as authoring (or co-authoring) at least 8 books on .NET. He is the MSDN Regional Director (RD) for Tennessee, and was RD of the year in 2001. He authors many articles, including a regular column at MSDN called Adventures in VB.NET

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James Kovacs shows very clearly how to code up a simple IoC container with just a few lines of code illustrating the concepts of dependency injection, dependency inversion, and inversion of control (IoC).

Bio
James Kovacs is an independent architect, developer, trainer, and jack-of-all-trades, specializing in agile development using the .NET Framework. He is passionate about helping developers create flexible software using test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, object-relational mapping, dependency injection, refactoring, continuous integration, and related techniques. He is a founding member of the Plumbers @ Work podcast, which is syndicated by MSDN Canada Community Radio. He has published articles in MSDN Magazine – most recently “Loosen Up: Tame Your Software Dependencies for More Flexible Apps” in the March 2008 issue. James is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) – C# Architecture and card-carrying member of ALT.NET, a group of software professionals continually looking for more effective ways to develop applications. He received his Masters degree from Harvard University.

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Bill Wagner is back in dnrTV land to show us some of the more elusive features found in C# 3.0.

Bio
Bill Wagner, co-founder of SRT Solutions, has developed commercial software for the past twenty years, leading the design on many successful engineering and enterprise Microsoft Windows products. He now spends his time facilitating .NET adoption in clients’ product and enterprise development. Bill’s principal strengths include the C# language, the core framework, Smart Clients, and Service Oriented Architecture and design. ? In 2003, Microsoft recognized Bill’s expertise and appointed him Regional Director for Michigan. In 2005, he was re-appointed and also awarded Microsoft C# Most Valuable Professional (MVP) status. ? A frequent speaker and internationally recognized author, Bill has been a contributing editor, editorial board member and columnist for over a decade. Addison Wesley released his latest book, Effective C#, in 2004. He is a founding member of the Great Lakes .NET User Group and the Ann Arbor .NET Developers Group and actively contributes to the Ann Arbor Computer Society.

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Brian Noyes returns to dnrTV with the new Composite Application Guidance for WPF from Microsoft called Prism. Brian shows Carl and Mark Miller how to use Prism with a basic sample application that he codes from scratch.

Bio
Brian Noyes is Chief Architect with IDesign, Microsoft's Regional Director for Virginia and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Brian's latest book is Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce(TM), for Addison Wesley. Brian publishes articles in a variety of publications and speaks at international conferences and events including Microsoft TechEd US, Europe, and Malaysia, Visual Studio Connections, and DevTeach. Brian is a top-rated speaker on the INETA Speakers Bureau and travels the country frequently speaking to developer user groups. Brian got started with programming to stimulate his brain while flying F-14 Tomcats in the Navy, graduating from Top Gun and U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. You can always find out the latest things Brian is up to through his blog.

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Miguel Castro returns to the dnrTV screen to show us how to get the best out of Windows Communication Foundation. Miguel extholls the virtues of doing WCF projects from scratch, and not using the Visual Studio templates.

Bio
Miguel A. Castro is a .NET Consultant, Author, Speaker, and Trainer with over 20 years of IT experience. He has a background in full automation solutions encompassing all aspects of a project’s life cycle, including data gathering, architecture, design, development, documentation, and training. He is also a Microsoft MVP in the area of Visual Developer C#, recently awarded for 2005.

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This week Scott Cate shows us his CloudDB product called EasyDB.com. EasyDB.com is a community database with a web interface that can be accessed by .NET applications. Scott shows us how to use it from the ground up and includes something special for dnrTV viewers.

Bio
Scott Cate is the President of myKB.com, Inc., in Scottsdale, Arizona. myKB.com is a technology company specializing in commercial ASP.NET applications. ? His product line includes myKB.com (Knowledge Base Software), kbAlertz.com (Microsoft Knowledge Base Notifications), and EasySearchASP.net (a Pluggable Search Engine for ASP.NET sites). Scott also runs AZGroups.com (Arizona .NET User Groups), one of the largest and most active user group communities in the country, and is a member of ASPInsiders.com, a group devoted to giving early feedback to the Microsoft ASP.NET Team. ? Scott has also been awarded the ASP.NET MVP for five years in a row, from 2004-2008. In addition, Scott has co-authored an AJAX book titled "Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET" and the non-fiction novel "Surveillance" ( http://surveillance-the-novel.com ).

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Rockford Lhotka returns to dnrTV this week to wrap up his two part series on the latest version of his CSLA .NET Framework. Rocky steps us through the details of interacting with a a data source and also some of the new LINQ to XML features.

Bio
Rockford Lhotka is the author of numerous books, including the Expert Visual Basic .NET & C# Business Objects books. He is a Microsoft Software Legend, Regional Director, MVP and INETA speaker. Rockford speaks at many conferences and user groups around the world and is a columnist for MSDN Online. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners dedicated to solving today's most challenging business problems using 100% Microsoft tools and technology.

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Beth Massi makes her dnrtv debut this week. We've had Beth on DNR before talking about XML Literals but now we get to see what it's all about. Beth shows us some interesting ways to apply her magic.

Bio
Beth is an Online Content and Community Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team responsible for managing and producing content for business application developers and driving community features onto MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com/). She also produces content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), Channel 9 (http://channel9.msdn.com/), and a variety of other developer sites. As a Visual Basic community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events.

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Following up on the last show, Dan Simmons demonstrates using the Entity Framework with ASP.NET applications and web services.

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Daniel Simmons is dev manager for the Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL team where his mission is to build a team and a product that will fundamentally change the way we build data-centric software. He has been at Microsoft for 10 years working on a variety of products. Before coming to Microsoft he worked as a consultant, founded an ISP and engaged in various other software pursuits.

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Microsoft developer Dan Simmons makes his dnrTV debut this week, introducing us to the ADO.NET Entity Framework.

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Daniel Simmons is dev manager for the Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL team where his mission is to build a team and a product that will fundamentally change the way we build data-centric software. He has been at Microsoft for 10 years working on a variety of products. Before coming to Microsoft he worked as a consultant, founded an ISP and engaged in various other software pursuits.

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Our good friend Rocky Lhotka stops by to show us his latest developments in CSLA .NET. Rocky walks us through some of the new features and the reasons behind them. This episode deals mostly with re-factoring and code consolidation.

Bio
Rockford Lhotka is the author of numerous books, including the Expert Visual Basic .NET & C# Business Objects books. He is a Microsoft Software Legend, Regional Director, MVP and INETA speaker. Rockford speaks at many conferences and user groups around the world and is a columnist for MSDN Online. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners dedicated to solving today's most challenging business problems using 100% Microsoft tools and technology.

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Billy Hollis comes to the dnrTV Screen this week to show us some clever ways to make a clean, efficient user interface in Windows Presentation Foundation.

Bio
Billy Hollis and Rockford Lhotka had the first VB.NET book on the market from Wrox Press. Since then, Billy has taught VB.NET classes and done consulting for major companies, as well as authoring (or co-authoring) at least 8 books on .NET. He is the MSDN Regional Director (RD) for Tennessee, and was RD of the year in 2001. He authors many articles, including a regular column at MSDN called Adventures in VB.NET

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Brent VanderMeide continues his series on scopes this week with details on multi-level nested scopes.

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Brent VanderMeide is a self-proprietor software engineering consultant at Code Impressions. As a software architect / sr. software engineer Brent has 9 years of experience creating innovative business applications. Brent often finds himself in the architect role of software. Everywhere he goes he brings innovative processes and solutions. Always on the cutting edge he loves learning the latest patterns and practices and applying which patterns fit the best for a particular solution. Brent has applied his software architecture and development skills for many large corporations including Intel, Micron, U.S. National Park Services, Johnson Controls International, Universal Studios, Sprint, and R.H. Donnelly Publishing & Advertising. With an extensive knowledge of the .Net framework, Brent has served solutions for all these clients using Microsoft’s .Net technology.

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Brent VanderMeide shows how to use database transaction scoping, incliding how to create and use your own scope class.

Bio
Brent VanderMeide is a self-proprietor software engineering consultant at Code Impressions. As a software architect / sr. software engineer Brent has 9 years of experience creating innovative business applications. Brent often finds himself in the architect role of software. Everywhere he goes he brings innovative processes and solutions. Always on the cutting edge he loves learning the latest patterns and practices and applying which patterns fit the best for a particular solution. Brent has applied his software architecture and development skills for many large corporations including Intel, Micron, U.S. National Park Services, Johnson Controls International, Universal Studios, Sprint, and R.H. Donnelly Publishing & Advertising. With an extensive knowledge of the .Net framework, Brent has served solutions for all these clients using Microsoft’s .Net technology.

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This week Mark Miller brings his Graphical User Interface Expertise from your ears to your eyes. Mark expands on his recent .NET Rocks! show pertaining to the same subject with great tips and visual demos.

Bio
Mark has been developing software since the early 1980s. He spent the 12 years preceeding 2004 coding developer tools, which are his -- figuring out how to make developers more efficient. He was awarded the "Spirit of Delphi" by Borland. He created CodeRush for Delphi in 1997, and it has won numerous reader's choice awards. He also created reAct, a component test program generator; and the CDK (Component Developer Kit) for Delphi. He created XL8, a translation software package, and created the motion control system for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stage show. What can we say, he's a developer's developer.

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Carl returns to the dnrTV screen this week with his audio processing .NET code. This show focuses on recording and playing raw uncompressed audio data.

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Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Garys VB Home Page. Carl is also the MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut(www.microsoftregionaldirectors.com), an MVP for Visual Basic, host of .NET Rocks! and Mondays, and CEO of Pwop Productions, which provides podcasting services.

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Carl steps into the spotlight this week to show us his MIDI Router project that he has been working on for a few years. The latest extension of this .NET program takes the player piano concept to a whole new level! Brother Jay makes his dnrTV debut as guest host.

Bio
Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Garys VB Home Page. Carl is also the MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut(www.microsoftregionaldirectors.com), an MVP for Visual Basic, host of .NET Rocks! and Mondays, and CEO of Pwop Productions, which provides podcasting services.

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Mark Dunn returns to the dnrTV screen this week to introduce us to managing long term activities in Workflow with persistence.

Bio
Mark has over 20 years of experience in the disciplines of software engineering, database administration, and project management. Software that Mark developed for the radio industry is still in use today. He was a lead developer on the team that created Tapscan, a well-known Arbritron ratings analysis package that has dominated that industry for many years. ? Microsoft recently honored Mark by awarding him MVP status for his contributions to the Visual Studio .Net community. Mark also co-founded .Net Rocks, an Internet radio program for .Net developers recognized in over 80 countries and now hosted by Microsoft on the MSDN site. ? Mark is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Application Developer, Solution Developer for .Net, and Database Administrator.

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This week our old friend Miguel Castro stops by the studio to show us a concise yet complete demo on ASP.NET security using Http Handlers.

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Miguel A. Castro is a .NET Consultant, Author, Speaker, and Trainer with over 20 years of IT experience. He has a background in full automation solutions encompassing all aspects of a project’s life cycle, including data gathering, architecture, design, development, documentation, and training. He is also a Microsoft MVP in the area of Visual Developer C#, recently awarded for 2005.

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Mark Miller is back on dnrTV this week! Mark shows you how to be the Charlie Parker of code writing with Dev Express's CodeRush with Refactor!

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Mark has been developing software since the early 1980s. He spent the 12 years preceeding 2004 coding developer tools, which are his -- figuring out how to make developers more efficient. He was awarded the "Spirit of Delphi" by Borland. He created CodeRush for Delphi in 1997, and it has won numerous reader's choice awards. He also created reAct, a component test program generator; and the CDK (Component Developer Kit) for Delphi. He created XL8, a translation software package, and created the motion control system for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stage show. What can we say, he's a developer's developer.

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Donald Farmer shows off SQL Server 2008 Data Mining and the Data Mining Add-Ins for Office 2007.

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Donald Farmer has worked in the Microsoft Business Intelligence team for 6 years. He has worked on both the Analysis Services and Integration Services product teams. Donald is now Principal Program Manager for SQL Server Data Mining, working to build a seamless integration of predictive and exploratory analytics with the Microsoft business intelligence offering. Mr. Farmer is a popular speaker at international events for both business and technical audiences, with a wide range of interests including data integration, information quality, metadata intelligence, master data management and predictive analytics. He is the author of a number of books and articles. Prior to joining Microsoft, Donald worked not only in business intelligence but in fields as varied as medieval archaeology and fish-farming.

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Our good friend Bill Wagner is back this week to show us how Generics can make your code smaller, more efficient and easier to read.

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Bill Wagner, co-founder of SRT Solutions, has developed commercial software for the past twenty years, leading the design on many successful engineering and enterprise Microsoft Windows products. He now spends his time facilitating .NET adoption in clients’ product and enterprise development. Bill’s principal strengths include the C# language, the core framework, Smart Clients, and Service Oriented Architecture and design.

In 2003, Microsoft recognized Bill’s expertise and appointed him Regional Director for Michigan. In 2005, he was re-appointed and also awarded Microsoft C# Most Valuable Professional (MVP) status.

A frequent speaker and internationally recognized author, Bill has been a contributing editor, editorial board member and columnist for over a decade. Addison Wesley released his latest book, Effective C#, in 2004. He is a founding member of the Great Lakes .NET User Group and the Ann Arbor .NET Developers Group and actively contributes to the Ann Arbor Computer Society.

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Jim Duffy comes to the dnrTV screen this week with a great presentation using Microsoft's Virtual Earth in ASP .NET. Jim shows you how to incorporate live maps in your applications complete with push pins, lines, shapes, links and more.

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Jim Duffy (jduffy@takenote.com) is founder and president of TakeNote Technologies. He has a BS degree in Computer and Information Systems and 20 years of programming and training experience. He is an exceptional trainer, skilled developer, and has been published in a number of leading publications including CoDe Magazine. Jim's passion for teaching and presenting, combined with his humorous and quick-witted approach, have made him a popular speaker at international developer conferences, regional conferences, and local user groups. His most recent speaking appearance was at the DevTeach 2007 conference in Montreal Canada. Jim specializes in Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server development, including converting VB6 and Visual FoxPro applications to .NET. Jim is a Regional Directory, a member of the INETA speakers bureau and is also a Microsoft VB.NET MVP.

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This week Miguel Castro and Mark Dunn join Carl live on stage at the Raleigh Code Camp to show how to marry Workflow and Windows Communication Foundation. These elusive features seem like they should be a no-brainer, but it took Miguel and Mark at least one long night and a few beers to figure it all out so you don't have to.

Bio
Miguel A. Castro is a .NET Consultant, Author, Speaker, and Trainer with over 20 years of IT experience. He has a background in full automation solutions encompassing all aspects of a project’s life cycle, including data gathering, architecture, design, development, documentation, and training. He is also a Microsoft MVP in the area of Visual Developer C#, recently awarded for 2005. Mark has over 20 years of experience in the disciplines of software engineering, database administration, and project management. Software that Mark developed for the radio industry is still in use today. He was a lead developer on the team that created Tapscan, a well-known Arbritron ratings analysis package that has dominated that industry for many years. ? Microsoft recently honored Mark by awarding him MVP status for his contributions to the Visual Studio .Net community. Mark also co-founded .Net Rocks, an Internet radio program for .Net developers recognized in over 80 countries and now hosted by Microsoft on the MSDN site. ? Mark is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Application Developer, Solution Developer for .Net, and Database Administrator.

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Kathleen Dollard is back on dnrTV this week talking about her favorite .NET subject, Code Generation. Kathleen shows us some brand new techniques that are so new and cutting edge that we can't even describe them in this brief description, you'll just have to watch this one!

Bio
Kathleen has been developing business applications for over 20 years and working with .NET since the early betas. She’s been a Microsoft MVP for over ten years, was the founding president of the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, and is an active member of the Denver Visual Studio User Group. As an independent consultant, she has had the opportunity to work in many roles: advising management, training and mentoring programmers, analyzing and architecting applications, and coding infrastructure. Kathleen has worked extensively with application code generation and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft NET (from Apress). She has a monthly column “Ask Kathleen” in Visual Studio Magazine and has published dozens of articles on a range of .NET topics. As an INETA and conference speaker, she’s spoken in 26 states and 5 countries.

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Brian Noyes returns to dnrTV to continue his series on Windows Presentation Foundation. This week Brian gives us a primer on data binding in WPF.

Bio
Brian Noyes is Chief Architect with IDesign, Microsoft's Regional Director for Virginia and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Brian's latest book is Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce(TM), for Addison Wesley. Brian publishes articles in a variety of publications and speaks at international conferences and events including Microsoft TechEd US, Europe, and Malaysia, Visual Studio Connections, and DevTeach. Brian is a top-rated speaker on the INETA Speakers Bureau and travels the country frequently speaking to developer user groups. Brian got started with programming to stimulate his brain while flying F-14 Tomcats in the Navy, graduating from Top Gun and U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. You can always find out the latest things Brian is up to through his blog.

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Keith Pleas shows off the nascent Design for Operations project coming out of the Microsoft Patterns and Practices group. Using the TSMMD (Team System Management Model Designer), he shows how to properly instrument an application using the new tools.

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Keith Pleas is one of the founders of Guided Design and has worked for more than two years on the team developing the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET, and has worked with the patterns & practices team for 3 years. Keith is an internationally known writer and speaker and served as the Editorial Chair for VSLive. He is also a Contributing Editor to "Visual Studio Magazine", has developed Microsoft Professional Certification Exams. Keith was a founding board member of INETA where he also created the INETA Speakers Bureau.

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Kirk Munro of Quest Software comes to dnrTV this week to show us PowerGUI, a free tool from Quest that gives you full and easy control over PowerShell.

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Kirk Munro, the world's first self-proclaimed Poshoholic, is a Senior Software Developer for Quest Software where he is very happy working as a member of the PowerGUI team. He is also the recipient of the Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) award for his work in the Windows Server - Admin Frameworks (PowerShell) category. Kirk has spent the last four years working on Windows Management products at Quest, specializing in data retrieval from Active Directory and Exchange data stores. These days he spends pretty much all of his time working with PowerShell and PowerGUI, writing his blog, and helping others in the PowerShell community. You can contact him by leaving him a note on his blog at http://www.poshoholic.com.

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Kathleen Dollard returns to dnrTV this week to wrap up her two part series on special features in .NET 3.5. This time Kathleen shows us lambda expressions, anonymous methods and Linq.

Bio
Kathleen has been developing business applications for over 20 years and working with .NET since the early betas. She’s been a Microsoft MVP for over ten years, was the founding president of the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, and is an active member of the Denver Visual Studio User Group. As an independent consultant, she has had the opportunity to work in many roles: advising management, training and mentoring programmers, analyzing and architecting applications, and coding infrastructure. Kathleen has worked extensively with application code generation and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft NET (from Apress). She has a monthly column “Ask Kathleen” in Visual Studio Magazine and has published dozens of articles on a range of .NET topics. As an INETA and conference speaker, she’s spoken in 26 states and 5 countries.

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Kathleen Dollard brings her expertise to the dnrTV screen this week. In this first of a two part series, Kathleen gives us a broad overview of how we got to where we are today. Also, she gives us an in-depth comparison/contrast of the new .NET 3.5 features in C# and VB.

Bio
Kathleen has been developing business applications for over 20 years and working with .NET since the early betas. She’s been a Microsoft MVP for over ten years, was the founding president of the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, and is an active member of the Denver Visual Studio User Group. As an independent consultant, she has had the opportunity to work in many roles: advising management, training and mentoring programmers, analyzing and architecting applications, and coding infrastructure. Kathleen has worked extensively with application code generation and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft NET (from Apress). She has a monthly column “Ask Kathleen” in Visual Studio Magazine and has published dozens of articles on a range of .NET topics. As an INETA and conference speaker, she’s spoken in 26 states and 5 countries.

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This show is for VB developers who wish to learn C# in the .NET framework. In this first episode Bill Wagner gives us an introduction to the key words and special syntaxes of C# with a little swag distribution program.

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Bill Wagner, co-founder of SRT Solutions, has developed commercial software for the past twenty years, leading the design on many successful engineering and enterprise Microsoft Windows products. He now spends his time facilitating .NET adoption in clients’ product and enterprise development. Bill’s principal strengths include the C# language, the core framework, Smart Clients, and Service Oriented Architecture and design. ? In 2003, Microsoft recognized Bill’s expertise and appointed him Regional Director for Michigan. In 2005, he was re-appointed and also awarded Microsoft C# Most Valuable Professional (MVP) status. ? A frequent speaker and internationally recognized author, Bill has been a contributing editor, editorial board member and columnist for over a decade. Addison Wesley released his latest book, Effective C#, in 2004. He is a founding member of the Great Lakes .NET User Group and the Ann Arbor .NET Developers Group and actively contributes to the Ann Arbor Computer Society.

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Jeff Palermo takes the mouse this week to show you the nascent Model-View-Controller framework for ASP.NET from the absolute ground to a slice of a real world ASP.NET application.

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Jeffrey Palermo is a software management consultant and the CTO of Headspring Systems in Austin, TX. Jeffrey specializes in Agile coaching and helps companies double the productivity of software teams. Jeffrey is an MCSD.Net , Microsoft MVP, Certified Scrummaster, Austin .Net User Group leader, AgileAustin board member, INETA speaker, INETA Membership Mentor, Christian, husband, father, motorcyclist, Eagle Scout, U.S. Army Veteran, and Texas A&M University graduate.

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Rob Windsor shows us how to interoperate with VB 6.0 applications from simple classes to Windows Forms. This technique lets you slowly migrate VB6 applications to VB.NET one feature at a time.

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Rob Windsor is a Senior Consultant and the Director of Training with ObjectSharp Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto, Canada. Rob focuses on the architecture, design and development of custom business applications using leading edge Microsoft technologies. In addition Rob is a top rated instructor - authoring and teaching courses on .NET development, SharePoint and software architecture. Rob is a member of the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureau and he presents at conferences, code camps, and user group meetings in Toronto and across North America. He is President of the Toronto Visual Basic User Group and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for his involvement in the developer community.

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Venkat Subramaniam introduces the concepts of functional programming with Erlang, an open source functional language, setting the stage for F# on a future show.

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Venkat is an agile developer who teaches and mentors. He has significant experience in architecture, design and development of distributed object systems. He has worked in positions, from Programmer Analyst to Systems Architect, at organizations like Halliburton, Raytheon, and Simulation Sciences. Venkat has trained more than 2500 software professionals around the world. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Houston and teaches the Professional Software Developer Series at the Technology Education Center - Rice University. He is also a regular speaker at various conferences and user groups.

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Jean-Paul Boodhoo cleans up his sample project by refactoring, and introduces some new patterns in the process.

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Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo is a .NET delivery expert who has been working with the .NET Framework since beta 1 of .NET 1.0. He spends his days working as an independent consultant; helping teams realize success through agile practices and pragmatic Behavior Driven Development techniques. He has a passion for sharing information on applied behaviour driven development with .NET, and has written articles for Visual Studio magazine, DevX, CoDe, and MSDN that utilize BDD to pragmatically apply .NET. Jean-Paul has had the opportunity to deliver webcasts for Microsoft on the topic of design patterns in the real world. He enjoys getting active in local user groups presenting ways that developers can harness the power of .NET to realize flexible, maintainable applications. He has a passion for empowering developers to break the stereotypical developer mold and take the effort to break into the developer community to make their own mark. His efforts in the community have earned him a Microsoft MVP award. Jean-Paul can be reached at jp@jpboodhoo.com and makes continual efforts to update his blog at http://www.jpboodhoo.com/blog. When not developing Jean-Paul can be found relaxing with his amazing wife and their four beautiful kids

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Brian Kuhn is back for an update on his Argotic Framework, a free .NET library for consuming and generating RSS, Atom, OPML and other syndication data.

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Brian Kuhn is a .NET developer for a medium sized school district in eastern Washington. Prior to working for the school district he had a short stint working for Microsoft in their Corporate Services Information Technology (CSIT) group. His interests include blogging, Tae Kwon Do, .NET programming, stalking Mark Miller, and the social influences of technology. His only regret in life is getting Carl hooked on VB.NET, as you should have seen the beautiful C# code Carl used to write...

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Mark Dunn comes back to discuss how the rules engine works as part of WF (Workflow Foundation). You may be surprised by the results.

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Mark has over 20 years of experience in the disciplines of software engineering, database administration, and project management. Software that Mark developed for the radio industry is still in use today. He was a lead developer on the team that created Tapscan, a well-known Arbritron ratings analysis package that has dominated that industry for many years. ? Microsoft recently honored Mark by awarding him MVP status for his contributions to the Visual Studio .Net community. Mark also co-founded .Net Rocks, an Internet radio program for .Net developers recognized in over 80 countries and now hosted by Microsoft on the MSDN site. ? Mark is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Application Developer, Solution Developer for .Net, and Database Administrator.

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This week Carl talks to Miguel Castro at Dev Connections in Las Vegas about using the Provider Pattern in ASP.NET. Miguel uses an unabridged credit card processing example as a demo to show how powerful and extensible providers can be.

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Miguel A. Castro is a .NET Consultant, Author, Speaker, and Trainer with over 20 years of IT experience. He has a background in full automation solutions encompassing all aspects of a project’s life cycle, including data gathering, architecture, design, development, documentation, and training. He is also a Microsoft MVP in the area of Visual Developer C#, recently awarded for 2005.

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Jan Blomquist returns to dnrTV to give us more Gaia Ajax Widget demonstrations. Jan also shows you how to integrate Gaia controls into your existing .NET web applications.

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Jan Blomquist works for Frost Innovation in Norway and is one of the core architects behind Gaia Ajax Widgets. He has also been a Microsoft MVP since 2005. Jan speaks often at various user groups, seminars and other similar events. Gaia can be found at: http://ajaxwidgets.com and his blog can be found here: http://janblomquist.com/blog

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Todd Anglin is our guest this week on dnrTV. Todd shows us how your .NET application can have the perfect WPF look and feel using Telerik Winforms Devlopment Components.

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Todd Anglin is an Experts Exchange ASP.NET Master, an active contributor to the ASP.NET community, author of the Telerik Watch blog, and Telerik's Chief Technical Evangelist. Before joining Telerik, Todd worked for a Fortune 200 financial service company and he brings a wealth of experience in building real world applications using the latest Microsoft technologies.

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Jan Blomquist is on dnrTV this week spot-lighting Gaia Ajax Widgets from Frost Innovation. In this first episode of a multi-part series, Jan introduces us to the Gaia architecture and a few of the amazing controls.

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Jan Blomquist works for Frost Innovation in Norway and is one of the core architects behind Gaia Ajax Widgets. He has also been a Microsoft MVP since 2005. Jan speaks often at various user groups, seminars and other similar events. Gaia can be found at: http://ajaxwidgets.com and his blog can be found here: http://janblomquist.com/blog

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Our good friend Miguel Castro is back on dnrTV talking about Membership in .NET. Miguel takes his previous Membership show to new heights with custom providers that extend the current Microsoft model.

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Miguel A. Castro is a .NET Consultant, Author, Speaker, and Trainer with over 20 years of IT experience. He has a background in full automation solutions encompassing all aspects of a project’s life cycle, including data gathering, architecture, design, development, documentation, and training. He is also a Microsoft MVP in the area of Visual Developer C#, recently awarded for 2005.

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This week Steven Smith of ASP Alliance makes his dnrTV debut. Steve gives us several great demos which demonstrate how to correctly use ASP .NET caching technology.

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Steven Smith is president of AspAlliance.com and AspAdvice.com. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, an ASP.NET MVP, and an ASPInsider Board Member. He is an INETA Speaker Bureau member, and author of two books on ASP.NET. Steve is also an Army Reserve officer, and spent most of 2004 in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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