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David Gristwood and I discuss the work of Microsoft UK around Azure before a 15 minute interview with Azure early adopter Active Web Solutions who make great use of Windows Azure and AppFabric.

Full show notes and an article on the same topic can be found at http://bit.ly/msdnpodcast020

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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 

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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.

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I talk to Hadi Hariri about the differences between Behavior Driven Development and Test Driven Development - and why Hadi chooses BDD every time.

Full show notes and an article on the same topic can be found at http://bit.ly/msdnpodcast017  

Phil Leggetter and I discuss the real time web and consuming real time data from a Silverlight client using HTTP server push.

Full show notes and an article on the same topic can be found at http://bit.ly/msdnpodcast016 

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While at TechEd Europe in November 2009 I had a chance to catch up with David Robinson, Program Manager in the SQL Azure team and discuss... SQL Azure

We cover the "reboot", large databases, the new support for SQL Azure in SQL Server Management Studio, customer feedback and futures....

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 Servies...

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 expressing pre-conditions,...

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 executed. Pex attempts...

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 Framework....