Last year before I left New Zealand I managed to grab some time with Mitch right after the Ready tour - around the time that Vista and Office went RTM.  I must apologise to both Mitch and listeners for the delay in getting this posted but better late than never.  Although there are a couple of points which we discuss that have been and gone, for the most part the points raised are as relevant now as they were 5 months ago!

And the show goes a little bit like this….[Listen to the Podcast]

[Opening music - big thanks to the guys of Minder for the use of their track Chess]

00:10 - Intro - Mitch Denny
00:20 - SQL Code Camp NZ (topics: performance, data, dev v’s dba)
01:20 - Mitch Denny -> Code Camp Oz Co-ordinator/Readify
02:50 - Orcas CTP/Beta (Linq, ADO.NET vNext)
03:40 - MS Sync Services (Correction: it IS now tied to Orcas ship cycle AFAIK)
04:20 - MS Ajax library
05:10 - Vista specific and .NET FX v3 (Correction: It is now RTM so licenses ARE now available)
08:00 - Fujitsu lighbook v’s IBM Thinkpad
08:55 - UMPC devices - not quite there (Hugo blogging on UMPC) - connectivity is the key!
10:45 - Vista development story
11:10 - Security - User Account control (2 tokens for administrative users)
12:55 - Virtual Store - writing to program files/registry
14:15 - Embedded manifests to inform Vista on requirements
16:15 - Running as Administrator - same user, different token
17:40 - SP1 for Visual Studio 2005/IDE support for embedding manifests (Update: IDE support never made it into SP1 - expect in Orcas)
18:30 - Apps still run ok on winXP with the manifest
18:55 - Service Packs/updates for working on Vista (Update: SQL Server SP2, VS SP1 w update - both now available for download)
20:50 - Enable SSCE to run as backend db for ASP.NET website (see post)
22:00 - DB dependent designer code - ADO.NET Entities is better for this
23:00 - User Experience - glassing - taking advantage of this as a developer (WinForms v’s WPF)
25:00 - Testing/Screencapture - automation api
29:20 - Vista extensibility - Sidebar, sync manager, Sideshow
31:35 - Spot, Microframework
32:50 - RSS Platform for business applications
33:40 - Doug Stockwell - RikiReader
35:05 - Powershell for doing bulk actions
37:00 - Getting started with powershell - download and get started!

Listen to the show HERE