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Carl Franklin

Carl Franklin

Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary’s VB Home Page. He now teaches hands-on VB .NET classes for his company, Franklins.Net. He has taught developers from Citigroup, Aetna, Fidelity Investments, Fleet Bank, Foxwoods Casino, UTC, Hubbell, Microsoft, Mohegan Sun Casino, Northeast Utilities, to name a few. Carl is co-host of a weekly talk show on his website for .NET programmers called .NET Rocks! Carl is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut.

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Articles

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  1. CODE Magazine: 2009 - November/December cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks! Is Software Development Too Complex?

  2. CODE Magazine: 2009 - September/October cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks! Axum!

    In Show #449 we spoke to Niklas Gustafsson and Josh Phillips about Axum, a new language developed specifically for parallelism.

  3. CODE Magazine: 2009 - March/April cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks! Oslo Is Love with Chris Sells

    Mar/Apr 09 .NET Rocks Column

  4. CODE Magazine: 2009 - January/February cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks! Future of Web Development Panel

  5. CODE Magazine: 2008 - November/December cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks! James Kovacs Inverts Our Control

    Nov/Dec 08 .NET Rocks by Carl Franklin

  6. CODE Magazine: 2008 - September/October cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks! Ted Faison on Event-driven Design

    In .NET Rocks! episode 355, Richard and I talked to Ted Faison about event-based and event-driven programming. There’s more to it than you think. Ted Faison has more than 30 years of experience in the software industry and has been involved with object-oriented-programming and component-based development since the inception of those technologies. He is currently working on .Net projects for the Motorcycle Industry Council and Amtrak. Ted is the author of the books Event-Based Programming: Taking Events to the Limit, Component-Based Development with Visual C#, and a few others.

  7. CODE Magazine: 2008 - July/August cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks! Jim Webber on Guerilla SOA!

    In episode #337 (jeez, can you believe we’ve produced so many shows?) Richard and I talked to Jim Webber, Global Architecture Lead for Thoughtworks, about his favorite topic, Guerilla SOA.

  8. CODE Magazine: 2008 - May/June cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks! Andy Leonard on Unit Testing Your Database

    May/June 2008 .NET Rocks! column

  9. CODE Magazine: 2008 - March/April cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks! Pablo Castro on Astoria

    Mar/April 2008 .NET Rocks by Carl Franklin

  10. CODE Magazine: 2008 - January/February cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks! Don Demsak on LINQ to XML

    In episode #271 of .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com) Richard and I spoke with Don Demsak about LINQ to XML. Here’s an excerpt from that interview.

  11. CODE Magazine: 2007 - November/December cover

    LINQ to Entities with Erik Maijer

    In show #270 Richard and I talked to Erik Meijer from Microsoft about LINQ. In this excerpt we talk about LINQ to Entities.

  12. CODE Magazine: 2007 - September/October cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!: Frank Savage on Programming the Xbox 360

    .NET Rocks column for Sept/Oct 2007

  13. CODE Magazine: 2007 - July/August cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks! Dead Head Bill Wagner

    Carl Franklin's .NET Rocks July/August 2007 column.

  14. CODE Magazine: 2007 - May/June cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!: Paul Randal on SQL Server 2005 Performance and Recovery

    May/June .Net Rocks Column

  15. CODE Magazine: 2007 - March/April cover

    .NET Rocks!: The Youngest MCP

    Mar/April 07 Carl Franklin .NET Rocks Column

  16. CODE Magazine: 2007 - January/February cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks! Moving VB6 Applications to .NET

    Jan/Feb 07 .Net Rocks Column

  17. CODE Magazine: 2006 - November/December cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!: Microsoft Pundits

    November/December 06 .NET Rocks Carl Franklin

  18. CODE Magazine: 2006 - September/October cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!: Kimberly Tripp on SQL Server 2005 SP1 and More

    Heard on .NET Rocks!: Kimberly Tripp on SQL Server 2005 SP1 and More

  19. CODE Magazine: 2006 - July/August cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!: Talking .NET with Tim Huckaby

    July august Carl Franklin .NET Rocks column

  20. CODE Magazine: 2006 - May/June cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!: Cogan Rules

    May June .NET Rocks Column by Carl Franklin

  21. CODE Magazine: 2006 - March/April cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!: A Torrent of Cool

    Carl Franklin's .Net Rocks March/April 05

  22. CODE Magazine: 2006 - January/February cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!: A Stroll Down RAM Lane with David Treadwell

  23. CODE Magazine: 2005 - November/December cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!: Joel Pobar and Brad Abrams on the CLR

    .Net Rocks by Carl Franklin Nov/Dec Article.

  24. CODE Magazine: 2005 - September/October cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!: Virtual PC and Virtual Server

    .NET Rocks Carl Franklin Column Sep/Oct 05

  25. CODE Magazine: 2005 - July/August cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!: Indy Racing League

    In episode #109 Matt Mannion from Clarity Consulting talks about the application his company developed with and for the Indy Racing League in Indianapolis, IN. Using Visual Studio .NET 2003 and VB.NET they were able to develop a great application for managing real-time racing data and reporting.Matt Mannion is an Engagement Manager for Clarity Consulting Inc., a Chicago-based technology consulting firm and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Matt has delivered many large-scale, WinForm and WebForm systems for a variety of industries, including retail, financial services, publishing, and banking. Contact Matt at mannion@claritycon.com.

  26. CODE Magazine: 2005 - May/June cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!: Managing Geographical Data with World Wind

    May/June 2005 .NET Rocks Column

  27. CODE Magazine: 2005 - March/April cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!: Spring.NET

    Carl Franklin .NET Rocks Column

  28. CODE Magazine: 2005 - January/February cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks: Jay Roxe

    Carl Franklin - Jan/Feb 05 .NET Rocks Column

  29. CODE Magazine: 2004 - November/December cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!

    I am the host of a weekly Internet audio talk show for .NET developers called .NET Rocks!Each week my co-host, Rory Blyth, and I interview the movers and shakers in the .NET community. It's a free download, and there are about 80 shows in the archives as of this writing. We've interviewed the likes of Alan Cooper, Scott Guthrie, Don Box, Kimberly Tripp, Chris Sells, and many other well-known persons in the community. Our show is not boring! We have fun! We give away prizes, look at strange Web sites, talk about what went on in .NET land during the week, and otherwise have a good time. Heard on .NET Rocks! is a regular feature of CoDe Magazine in which I highlight some of the conversations we've had recently.

  30. CODE Magazine: 2004 - September/October cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!: SQL Reporting Services

    I am the host of .NET Rocks!, an Internet audio talk show for .NET developers online at www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks and msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks. My co-host, Rory Blyth (www.neopoleon.com), and I interview the movers and shakers in the .NET community. We now have over 60 shows archived online, and we broadcast a new show every Thursday night from 10PM to Midnight, Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5). For more history of the show check out the May/June 2004 issue of CoDe Magazine, in which this column first appeared.

  31. CODE Magazine: 2004 - July/August cover

    Heard on .NET Rocks!

    I am the host of .NET Rocks!, an Internet audio talk show for .NET developers online at www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks and msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks. My co-host, Rory Blyth (www.neopoleon.com), and I interview the movers and shakers in the .NET community. We now have over 60 shows archived online, and we broadcast a new show every Thursday night from 10PM to Midnight, Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5). For more history of the show check out the May/June 2004 issue of CoDe Magazine, in which this column first appeared.

  32. CODE Magazine: 2004 - May/June cover

    Finish Your Week with .NET Rocks!

    This is the first in a series of what I hope will be one of your favorite columns for years to come! I am the host of a talk show on the Internet called .NET Rocks! (see advert), in which I interview the movers and shakers in the .NET community.