In today's episode Carl Layton returns to the podcast to discuss Azure Functions. What are Azure Functions and how do they work? Functions are one of the serverless compute options from Azure. You can use Functions to build web APIs, respond to database changes, manage message queues, and more. Beyond that we look at the security, performance and scaling of Azure Functions

There is a lot that goes into interviewing for a job, both for the interviewer(s) and the interviewee. The panelists talk about their experiences over the years from both sides.

Cecil Philips returns to the show to discuss the power of Minimal APIs and the differences to Controllers. They also discussed about using .NET with Stripe, and use cases for .NET Interactive.

In this episode we get the pleasure of picking the brain of the lead designer of C#, Mads Torgersen. Mads has been the lead designer for more than five years now and has worked on the language for over fifteen years. Our discussion covers multiple topics including the growth of C#, being backward compatible and how different languages incorporate ideas from each other. We also dig into the specifics of things like async/await, default interfaces and dynamics. On top of all that we get a peek at the future of C# and what we might see in the next couple of versions.

In this episode we get the pleasure of picking the brain of the lead designer of C#, Mads Torgersen. Mads has been the lead designer for more than five years now and has worked on the language for over fifteen years. Our discussion covers multiple topics including the growth of C#, being backward compatible and how different languages incorporate ideas from each other. We also dig into the specifics of things like async/await, default interfaces and dynamics. On top of all that we get a peek at the future of C# and what we might see in the next couple of versions.

Most developers we know find project management to be a necessary evil but without it a lot of us would be stumbling around in the dark. Shawn and Caleb look back over their careers to discuss different project management methodologies. Whether it is waterfall, agile, scrum, or none of these, projects are hard to manage. Both Shawn and Caleb have seen a lot of different ways that projects can be managed or mismanaged and they have differing opinions on what works best. Join us for this episode to find out which they prefer and what allows them to focus on getting to work coding.

Wai and Caleb sit down to discuss how authentication is evolving and how it works in Blazor. Identity server is now Duende server and with that comes the Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern. From an authentication persepective this pattern can benefit SPA's because of the way it handles cookies and tokens. Caleb is in the process of integrating a .NET 6 Blazor app with Identity server 4 (IDS4) and wanted to use BFF but it isn't an option. We discuss alternatives and how those alternatives might be viewed from the business and developer perspectives. Join us and find out where Caleb ended up on his authentication journey.

Have you ever used SignalR in your development? .NET might have used it for the code you wrote and you didn't realize it. Kevin Griffin has used SignalR for multiple projects over the years and joins us to discuss how you can use it in your development. SignalR uses a pub/sub model and is great for applications that need immediate feedback. Kevin used it for a city's emergency system to provide alerts to first responders within seconds of an emergency being recorded. Like most technologies SignalR can be problematic if used incorrectly. We get to hear a couple of stories where Kevin had to work to fix troublesome SignalR implementations.

In today's episode Mohamad Lawand helps us try and grok gRPC. gRPC is a modern open source high performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. That description doesn't really demystify what gRPC can do so Mohamad helps us fill in some of the gaps. We find out how gRPC works in .NET, how it works with HTTP, how it is different from REST and some good use cases for using it in your applications. gRPC is used by companies like Netflix and Square and is supported by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Have we piqued your curiosity? We were curious as well so Andy Watt agreed to join us on the podcast and fill us in on the details. Remote - Containers is a VS Code extension that allows you to open any folder or repository inside a Docker container and take advantage of the full feature set of VS Code. You get all of the benefits of using Docker containers without ever having to leave Visual Studio Code. Isn't VS Code great! We discuss several use cases that Andy and his team use Remote - Containers for as well as possible limitations and things to keep in mind.

We go very low-level with Adam Furmanek and discuss techniques for overriding fundamental rules of the C# language. We discuss why we should probably almost never do this, but we discuss some niche use cases where it is appropriate and the problems that can be solved.

Have you ever thought about mixing two SPA frameworks together? In today's episode we discuss doing just that, Blazor and Angular running in the same application. Both Angular and Blazor have ways to export code as web components that can be reused in other applications. In order to use Angular in Blazor you have to get familiar with IJSRuntime and how JavaScript interoperability works in Blazor. We look at how Blazor can provide input and get output from Angular as well as discuss how you can handle CSS between the two. We also go over some of the use cases for using Angular web components inside a Blazor application.

In this episode of Adventures in .NET the panelists take a look at the Microsoft Power Platform. Power Platform consists of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and Power Virtual Agents. Wai Liu has been working with Power Apps, Microsofts low code tooling, for the past year and has found it to be a valuable tool in the right circumstances. Caleb Wells has experience with Power BI which is Microsofts big data tooling and has found it to be well developed and straight forward to use. We also discuss licensing, cost, target audience and more.

Unsure about how and why to use Source Generators in .NET? Stefan Schranz explains them in an easy-to-understand way. He compares them to T4 templates and explains that there’s a new and more powerful way to generate code. Learn about how to get started, the limitations, and their use cases in this episode.

It has been more than a year since we had Mark Miller on the podcast, which is too long, but he is back with us today to talk about outside of the box thinking. The first thing you need to know when thinking outside the box is that there is no such thing as impossible. Maybe it isn't financially feasible or would take an inordinate amount of time but it is not impossible. Next throw out any preconceived notions of what is required, untouchable or unquestionable. With those two in place you can do things like embed images in source code, use caps lock as a modifier or create complex live animations for a Twitch stream. Mark discusses how he did all of these and how he got himself and his team past impossible.

It has been more than a year since we had Mark Miller on the podcast, which is too long, but he is back with us today to talk about outside of the box thinking. The first thing you need to know when thinking outside the box is that there is no such thing as impossible. Maybe it isn't financially feasible or would take an inordinate amount of time but it is not impossible. Next throw out any preconceived notions of what is required, untouchable or unquestionable. With those two in place you can do things like embed images in source code, use caps lock as a modifier or create complex live animations for a Twitch stream. Mark discusses how he did all of these and how he got himself and his team past impossible.

Adventures in .NET has come a long way in the last two years and has had a lot of great guests during that time. For our 100th episode the hosts, Shawn Clabough, Wai Ho Liu and Caleb Wells, pull up the list of episodes and take a trip down memory lane. We discuss some of our favorite topics, moments, picks and more. It has been a lot of fun and we are looking forward to the next two years and 100+ episodes.

Mani has summarized hundreds of business books that outline how to build, grow, and operate a business and he shares his expertise with Chuck and the listeners in this special episode. Chuck and Mani discuss what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. They talk about their businesses on a regular basis and Chuck's been getting a lot of requests for entrepreneurship help.

Azure trainer Brian Gorman joins us on the show and help us untangle all of the many Azure certification pathways. We discuss reasons someone might want to get certified as well as share tips on the best way to pass the exam.

If you are listening to this podcast you probably know about the OWASP Top 10. A new top 10 came out in September to replace the list from 2017 and there are a number of changes. Christian Wenz joins us to go through each item with a fine-tooth comb. The list has some new additions and consolidates some of the categories to try and make things clearer. One of the bigger changes is Broken Access Control moving from fifth to first. Want to hear more about Broken Access Control, Cryptographic Failures or Insecure Design? Then join us for this awesome OWASP episode.

If you are listening to this podcast you probably know about the OWASP Top 10. A new top 10 came out in September to replace the list from 2017 and there are a number of changes. Christian Wenz joins us to go through each item with a fine-tooth comb. The list has some new additions and consolidates some of the categories to try and make things clearer. One of the bigger changes is Broken Access Control moving from fifth to first. Want to hear more about Broken Access Control, Cryptographic Failures or Insecure Design? Then join us for this awesome OWASP episode.

Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time. He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state. He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how that inspired him to figure out what the other guy was doing differently. He learned that he needed to get more done with the time he was spending on his projects. The trick? Deep Work!

We talk to Martin Costello - a .NET developer with a QA background - about integration testing. We walk through the different types of automated testing and discuss the benefits and purpose for each type. Martin introduces us to useful tools he uses to write tests within the .NET ecosystem and discusses what we should and shouldn't be testing as well as the metrics that are important when evaluating how well tested your code is.

Today's episode is all about functional programming. While C# isn't necessarily designed for functional programming you can still write functional code as long as you aren't a purist. Simon Painter joins us to talk about functional programming in general and how to use it in C# specifically.

Azure has a lot of services, some of which don't get much fanfare. Azure Cognitive Services might be a service that you haven't heard much about but that has a lot of useful features. Sam Nasr joins us to look into some of their APIs including vision and speech. After that we talk about SQL Server FileTables for storing files and directories. Last but not least Sam tells us about his user group in Cleveland and how it has impacted his life and career.