Blogs - Eric Nelson


MSDN Flash Podcast 020 - David Gristwood and AWS talk Azure[MP3] [0:30:21] [2010/02/09]
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…


MSDN Flash Podcast 019 - Windows Mobile Widgets[MP3] [0:22:37] [2010/01/14]
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…


MSDN Flash Podcast 018 - IronPython[MP3] [0:33:40] [2009/12/23]
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…


MSDN Flash Podcast 017 - Behavior Driven Development[MP3] [0:32:09] [2009/12/19]
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…


MSDN Flash Podcast 016 - Real Time Web and Silverlight[MP3] [2009/12/18]
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…


MSDN Flash Podcast 015 SQL Azure at TechEd Europe[MP3] [0:11:17] [2009/12/01]
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…


MSDN Flash Podcast 014 Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services at TechEd Europe[MP3] [2009/12/01]
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…


MSDN Flash Podcast 013 Code Contracts at TechEd Europe[MP3] [0:06:28] [2009/12/01]
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…


MSDN Flash Podcast 012 Pex automated testing at TechEd Europe[MP3] [2009/12/01]
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…


Entity Framework 4: Part 1 - Simple Model First[MP4] [0:10:07] [2009/11/26]
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…


MSDN Flash Podcast 011 Steve Marx on Windows Azure[MP3] [0:37:09] [2009/11/03]
Also known as “that’s where I left my shoe” (you will need to listen to understand that) This is a bonus edition of the podcast recorded on the 6th of October in London with Steve Marx, Technical…


MSDN Flash Podcast 010 Paul Jackson on Memory Mapped Files in .NET 4, Oslo and more[MP3] [0:23:06] [2009/11/03]
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…


MSDN Flash Podcast 009 Tom Quinn discusses Test Doubles, Mocking and Coding Dojos[MP3] [0:28:05] [2009/11/03]
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…


MSDN Flash Podcast 008 Gary Short on using XAF to build WebForm and WinForm apps[MP3] [0:28:43] [2009/11/03]
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…


MSDN Flash Podcast 007 Mike Ormond discusses ASP.NET 4.0[MP3] [0:34:00] [2009/10/30]
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…