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Hey, it’s our first Live .NET Rocks! Show EVER! Oh yeah, we recorded a show live at the PDC, but we didn’t broadcast it live! What’s more, Carl’s co-host is none-other than the infamous Rory Blyth

This show is 2 hours long, and commenced Friday, January 30, 2004 at 12PM EST, 9AM PST.

In the first hour, Bill Vaughn and Peter Blackburn talk about SQL Reporting Services, Microsoft’s foray into the data reporting market.

In the second hour, Carl and Rory welcome noted VB and PC guru Dan Appleman to talk about marketing hype, how developers are spending their time, and his new book Always Use Protection

Rory is moving to New London March 1st. So, the new live show format will commence March 5th, and will be only format for .NET Rocks! going forward. Remember! Friday’s at Noon Eastern!

In our first post-Mark show, Carl interviews developer and author Brian Noyes. Brian has focused his studies and development efforts on Smart Client development, and in this interview brings us from AutoDeployment of Windows Forms applications into ClickOnce, the next-generation deployment and update technology from Microsoft that will ship with the .NET Framework 2.0. We talk about the issues around AutoDeployment, and how Microsoft is addressing those issues with ClickOnce.

In this, Mark’s last show, Carl and Mark welcome Rory Blyth, who writes a very popular blog at neopoleon.com. Rory’s blog has become well known at Microsoft and in the .NET blogsphere in general.Rory talks about the .NET community and the Open Source Software (OSS) community, writing, blogging, driving to the PDC from Las Vegas, Longhorn, and lots of other great stuff. This one is not to be missed!

Carl and Mark have a chat with Sam Gentile (pronounced gen-TILL-ee) about sci-fi authors, COM Interop’s problems, Extreme Programming, dual programming, unit testing, Sam’s thoughts on the state of the .NET Framework, Groove, what’s wrong with Com Interop, the cross-platform potential of the .NET Framework, the CLI, Rotor and Mono.

Carl and Mark have a chat with the one and only Don Box about SOAP, WSE, Longhorn, Indigo, COM, the PDC, Band on the Runtime, and the meaning of life. Don reveals a few gems about Indigo, and talks about the ways in which Indigo makes web services better.