<The Worst Show Ever with Chris Sells and Rory Blyth/>

Chris Sells and Rory Blyth come over to Scott's house and proceed to record a horrible episode of Hanselminutes. Consider this a Holiday episode that is devoid of content. Run away, quickly, and we'll be back with great new shows, new topics and new guests in the new year. As for this episode, if you listen, you'll never get the time back. ;)

http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=112

Rob Windsor on VB6 Interop

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.

http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=94

<Pex with Jonathan 'Peli' de Halleux and Nikolai Tillmann/>

"Pex" is an intelligent assistant to the programmer that automatically generates unit tests, allowing you to find bugs early. In addition, it suggests to the programmer how to fix the bugs. Scott chats with Peli and Nikolai about this exciting Microsoft Research project.

http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=111

Venkat Subramaniam on Functional Programming in Erlang

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

http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=93

Someone took a video of Richard and I dancing with Rocky and Scott Hanselman at the DNR Christmas Party last week. I should never have allowed video cameras, that's all I have to say. Well, you might as well see for yourself...

http://www.shrinkster.com/swz

<Visual Basic Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Paul Vick/>

Scott chats with Paul Vick, Principal VB Architect, and Paul Yuknewicz, a Senior Program Manager on the VB Team about the past, present and future of Visual Basic.

http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=110

It's actually old music from Franklin Brothers, but nobody has heard it before. I wrote this song in the 90s. We were looking to do something more unplugged tonight, and this song came to mind. Enjoy!

Click here or on the photo below to view the high-def Silverlight version.

Click here to see the low-fi Flash version on YouTube

Jean-Paul Boodhoo on Demystifying Design Patterns Part 5

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

http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=92

Do you have a great story that you'd like to share on DNR? We'd like you to call in during the recording of show #300, Tuesday December 18th at 12PM EST and tell us!  Maybe you have a story about listening to the show? How something you heard affected your work or your life? A funny thing that happened in the server room? Show #300 is going to be all about the fans!

Send your story to me at carl AT franklins.net and we'll set you up!

<Eclipse with Bjorn Freeman Benson/>

In this episode Scott discusses with Bjorn Freeman Benson programming with Eclipse.

http://hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=109

Brian Kuhn on The Argotic Syndication Framework Part 2

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.

http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=91

This was recorded in July, 2004 at Pwop Studios before the renovation. The space consisted of two 25x25 rooms. One was the studio and my office (where this video was shot), and the other was a room I used for teaching classes on VB.NET programming. 

My brother Jay (on keyboards and backup vocals) and I were working at the time with monster bassist Kevin Carey and just as monster drummer Steve Kremidas on some original tunes, and we decided to do this recording with a few Mini DV cameras. The video originally appeared in the .NET Rocks! 2004 movie, but was never widely seen by the public until now.

It's nothing special, but it does kick ass, and I thought my fans would like to see it.

Click here (or on the photo below) to see the higher-quality video with Silverlight.

Click here to see the Flash version on YouTube.

Click here to download the 44MB WMV file directly.