Carl Franklin on Asynchronous Programming in VB 2005

Carl steps out from behind the microphone to demonstrate using the BackgroundWorker component to copy a file three different ways: code behind the button the old way and the new way, and then creating a component. Along the way you learn about threading issues with Windows Forms and how to deal with them.

http://dnrTV.com/default.aspx?showID=16

Carl and Richard talk with Kim Cameron about Identity and the challenges of tomorrow's authentication systems.

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=176

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Scott talks about alternate ways to launch applications and tools for personal productivity.

http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=23

This has been a busy week for us at Pwop. We moved our main file server to the west coast, and we're now on a 100 Megabit pipe. Last time I checked we were peaking at 24 Megabits per second and sustaining about 14. Nice! You should definitely notice the speed increase.

We've also been finishing up the premiere podcast for Eastern Mountain Sports, entitled BluePizza. If you're into outdoor sports and recreation, you'll get a kick out of it. We should be publishing that later this week.

Of course being on a new machine means our publishing system needs an overhaul. I've been busy working on it this week and trying to publish the shows at the same time. Needless to say, this was one of those weeks where things got shifted forward in time. So, we'll be publishing Hanselminutes on Thursday, and dnrTV on either Friday or Saturday depending on how much sleep (and grief) Jay wants to get tomorrow night.

Hanselminutes is all about alternative ways to launch apps, and as for dnrTV, well, I am the guest and Richard is the host. I show you how to do some real world multithreading with ease in VB.NET 2005.

Meantime, check out Mondays this week if you haven't already. It's nonstop laughs for 90 minutes of gems pulled from the first 50 shows.

The Best of Carl Franklin

The crew takes a powder this week so that we may bring you this collection of Carl's best bits from the first 50 shows.

We have been experiencing a DNS problem with perseus.franklins.net, which is causing downloads to fail.

The problem happened at networksolutions.com where an incorrect IP address for perseus was logged as a main server.

The correct IP address for perseus is 64.246.187.207 and it is being reported as 64.26.187.207

We corrected this earlier today but it will take 24 to 36 hours or so to update.

Meantime you can add the following entry to your \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file:

perseus.franklins.net   64.246.187.207

Just don’t forget to remove it in a few days.

I just ran the numbers for the first 3 months of dnrTV. Here are the hit counts:

Jan: 14907
Feb: 16726
March: 42608

Thanks for watching!

Bob Beauchemin digs into SQL CLR

Bob Beauchemin keeps it going this week by showing you exactly how to program sprocs, functions, and more using C# (or any language) in SQL 2005. Not to be missed!

http://dnrTV.com/default.aspx?showID=15

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Scott talks about CodeSmith as well as other code generators, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, and offering his usual insight into the issues. Of course, resources abound.

http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=20

Bob Beauchemin talks about the new features in SQL Server 2005, and it's a lot more than just the .NET Framework! Bob gets into some great details on the dos and don'ts of SQL CLR, talks about the relative strengths and weaknesses of T-SQL, and addresses various issues and new features.

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=175

This week on dnrTV – Jean Paul Boodhoo on Model/View/Presenter

Jean Paul Boodhoo is back to discuss the Model/View/Presenter architecture using the same project he used in episodes 10 and 11.

http://dnrTV.com/default.aspx?showID=14

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This week Scott uses his monacle and razor-sharp logic to find a trojan that was infecting his ASP.NET server. You'll learn how he did it, and probably discover some new tools you didn't know about before.

  http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=19

Kathleen Dollard, live at Dev Connections Orlando, 2006! A great talk about the future of code generation and more.

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=174

The 50th Show!

We have arrived at our 50th Mondays episode. The fans heap on the praise via telephone and skype, Natalie Portman gets stoned, Karen tells us why she still shows up for Mondays, Carl learns a few things this week, Millah has 3 stories of dumb, and Richard has toys that will blow your mind. Other than that, it's a crappy show and you shouldn't listen.

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This week Scott uncovers the coolest utilities on your system that you may not know you have. Windows XP and 2003 users will appreciate these time-saving utilities.

This week on dnrTV – Rocky Lhotka on CSLA.NET 2.0 (Part 2 of many)

Rocky Lhotka is back with round 2 on his lauded CSLA.NET 2.0 business object framework.

http://dnrTV.com/default.aspx?showID=13

I’m sitting here in my talk on RSS, Podcasting, and Syndication at DevConnections in Orlando and demonstrating BlogJet. Very cool.

See that 88%? That is coming from uTorrent! More later on that!

Do this now. Copy some non-secret text into your clipboard and browse to http://projectip.com. Scroll down to the bottom of the page. You may see the contents of your clipboard in the text box at the bottom of the page. There are instructions for fixing the problem right there on the page.

For the record, this is a problem with the default IE6 setting, but Firefox did not show my clipboard contents.

So tomorrow I'm heading down to DevConnections in Orlando. I'm amazed at how much this conference is growing. I'm very happy to be involved. My role is co-chair of the Visual Studio Connections conference. Juval Lowy is the other co-chair. The Visual Studio conference is all about building Windows applications, the .NET Framework, and systems code. Oh yeah. I also give away a Harley.

Of course, Richard and I will be recording a .NET Rocks! show live as we always do. We'll be interviewing Kathleen Dollard Wednesday, April 5th at 11:15 AM in the Poncianna room. I'm also doing two other sessions:

Not Faster Processors, but More Processors Tuesday, April 4th 8:00-9:15 AM in Palm ABC

The trend in PC performance is no longer to make revolutionary advances in CPU speed, but to add more processors to a single CPU, which means multi-threaded programming skills will continue to be highly valued. .NET 2.0 simplifies making asynchronous calls in Windows applications to the point where mere mortals can handle multi-threaded calls with only a few lines of code. In this session, we'll compare the 1.1 way to the 2.0 way using Visual Basic 2005.

RSS, Podcasting, and Syndication Tuesday, April 4th 2:00-3:15 PM in Palm ABC

These are terms you should be familiar with in the age of blogging and Windows Vista. In this session, you'll get the big picture as well as some code you can use to aggregate RSS from weblogs, news feeds, and other sources; as well as code to publish your own RSS feeds.

I also want to mention that our resident psychotic developer Mark Miller will be defying death in the most dangerous session ever attempted before a live audience called Extending Visual Studio Live. I don't want to give too much away, but it involves fire, sharp knives, and rope.