Eric Nelson

This is part 1 of a series of short introductory screencasts to the new features of ADO.NET Entity Framework 4, which is part of .NET 4 and Visual Studo 2010. It was created using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.In this 10 minute screencast I explore the new Model First capability of Entity…

This podcasts accompanies the UK MSDN Flash newsletter. The normal format of the podcast is a few minutes summarising the contents of the newsletter and then a 20 to 30 minute interview with the author of the technical article which appears in the newsletter. The podcasts were originally…

This podcast was recorded at TechEd Europe in November 2009. I get a chance to sit down with Mike Flasko, Program Manager in the Data Services team. We had both presented on Entity Framework during the conference which is where we started the discussion before we moved on to talk about Data…

This podcast accompanies the October 8th edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter. It is an interview with Paul Jackson which is meant to be about the article he wrote on Memory Mapped Files in .NET Framework 4.0 but tends to go off in different directions – but we both certainly enjoyed doing…

A great chat with Michael Foord, author of IronPython in Action, on why a C# or Visual Basic .NET developer should look at also investing time in learning and using IronPython. Full show notes, an article on the same topic and details of how you can subscribe to the podcast can…

While at TechEd Europe in November 2009 I had a chance to catch up with the two lead developers of the Pex team Peli de Halleux and Nikolai Tillmann.Pex enables white box testing. It looks at your code, finds all the branches and determines which inputs will result in those branches being…

This podcast is an interview with Tom Quinn in which we start off discussing his article on Test Doubles before moving on to Coding Dojos and finishing with a spot of “has software development really improved in the last 20 years”. The interview starts 7 minutes in after I complete a brief…

This podcast is an interview with Gary Short in which we discuss the DevExpress eXpressApp Framework™ (XAF) for quickly building WebForm and WinForm applications. Along the way we manage to mention testing frameworks, home-grown source control, rabbits feet, British Rail and Microsoft Access…

Paul Foster and I discuss his new role as technical editor of the MSDN Flash newsletter before talking about Windows Mobile Widget development (at 5min 30seconds in). Full show notes and an article on the same topic can be found at http://bit.ly/msdnpodcast019 We have also created…

While at TechEd Europe in November 2009 I had a chance to catch up with the two lead developers of the Pex team Peli de Halleux and Nikolai Tillmann to talk about Code Contracts. Code Contracts contains a common library (System.Diagnostics.Contracts) for…