You can find Nico at Bits du Jour here.

And don't forget to buy your software here! :)

Intro Music: Serenity

By: Pulse

You can find Pulse here.

Nick covers a lot, and you may be surprised at just how simple some things are in Word of Mouth marketing. Nick has a lot of experience doing this, so I'm sure that you'll find this an enjoyable and informative show.

Oh... I almost forgot! If you can find it in your heart... Please tell a friend about the .NET Preacher Show! ;)

Intro Music: Tyg Das Combat

By: The Digital Motion

You can find The Digital Motion here. Again, some very cool music that you can get for free!

I interviewed Nick Longo and the interview went quite long, so this is part 1 of the interview. In this espisode, Nick talks about:

• The new download site
• Advertising
• The commoditization of software
• "The light switch"
• Observing people
• Trends
• Invention vs. improvement
• Product strategy
• The Cosmic 80% Rule
• And a lot more...

In the next installment of the interview Nick goes over Word of Mouth marketing and how to get that rolling. So make sure to stay tuned for that as you do NOT want to miss it.

You can find Nick on the web at NicholasLongo.com.

Intro Music: I Make My Own Money

By: The Clintons

"I Make My Own Money" is certainly a mantra that every mISV can proudly chant, and you can find it and The Clintons here.

If you're wondering where the .NET Preacher gets all this cool music, most of it comes from The PodSafe Music Network. Make sure to check it out as there is lots of great music available for free!

Gregg also talks about programming issues specific to games and things application developers can do to get into writing games, along with some resources online to help get started.

You can find Gregg on the web at http://www.sophsoft.com/ and http://blog.gamecraft.org/.

Intro Music: War Game

By: Will Kriski

Appropriate for this episode, you can find War Game at Will's site at http://www.willkriski.com/.

So in this .NET Preacher Show we go over a few different ways to help automate a web browser control in .NET 2.0 with three ways to programmatically submit a form. Hopefully this walk through in the podcast will help people out more as there's a bit more explanation on web automation in here.

There are a few things in the sample application that illustrate side-effects of clicking the form submit button, so make sure to download it and check those out.

A lot of things are pretty trivial to do, but perhaps the most common thing needed is to programmatically click the submit button on a form. There are a few ways to do it, so here is the 'take-away' code from the sample application for programmatically clicking a submit button.

The three methods for programmatically clicking a web form submit button are:

   1:  // Submit Web Forms Method #1 - click submit button method 1

   2:  // This method is very reliable.

   3:  HtmlElement el = wbrBrowser.Document.All["s1"];

   4:  object obj = el.DomElement;

   5:  System.Reflection.MethodInfo mi = obj.GetType().GetMethod("click");

   6:  mi.Invoke(obj, new object[0]);

   7:   

   8:  // Submit Web Forms Method #2 - click submit button method 2

   9:  // This method sometimes fails if a form loses focus.

  10:  HtmlDocument doc = wbrBrowser.Document;

  11:  doc.GetElementById("s1").Focus();

  12:  SendKeys.Send("{ENTER}");

  13:   

  14:  // Submit Web Forms Method #3 - click submit button method 3

  15:  // Another way to submit a form.

  16:  HtmlElementCollection elcol = wbrBrowser.Document.All.GetElementsByName("WebAutomation");

  17:  foreach (HtmlElement el in elcol)

  18:  {

  19:      if (el.TagName.ToLower().Equals("form"))

  20:      {

  21:          el.InvokeMember("submit");

  22:          break;

  23:      }

  24:  }

 We also quickly go over how to programmatically fill in text in a form input. It's very simple, and here's how to do that:

   1:  // When you know the ID or name of an element, you have complete control of it. 

   2:  // Here we simply change the value of the input.

   3:  HtmlDocument doc = wbrBrowser.Document;

   4:  doc.GetElementById("t1").InnerText = this.btnFill1.Text;

Of course the text that you fill could be anything you want on the right side of the equals sign.

Download the sample application at http://www.dotnetpreacher.com/.

Intro Music: Shit Out Of Luck

By: Straightfork

Being forced to use a PHP script, I needed to setup a couple WIMP servers (Windows IIS MySQL PHP) and really, truly felt SOL (not SQL) as getting the 'cross-platform' script to work took a lot more effort than simply installing it. In any event, this show's intro music reflects that. You can find Straightfork here.

We then get a bit more serious wth a fantastic interview with Grant Frisken from Infralution. Infralution produces .NET components for developers.

Grant has a good number of products available at Infralution.com and most of them come out of his own needs. We also discuss his new Globalizer.NET application.

No spoilers here - so you'll have to download and listen! Ok - One spoiler, the .NET Preacher does use some of Infralution's software, and is fanatically happy with it! Truly an answer to prayer!

Intro Music: Sleeping with the Devil

By: Johnny Nicolas

You can find Johnny's music on the web here.

We then get a bit more serious with some some .NET news, a quick introduction to DotNetNuke for those that have been hiding for the last few years—or consorting with penguins—and then head off to explore a sample application.

The sample application this time around demonstrates how to pass a custom object to a threadpool and notify your main application of the status of what's going on in the thread.

Code snippits to pay attention to in the sample application are:

   1:  // How we start the thread...

   2:  bool b = ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(new WaitCallback(doStuff.RunProcess), obj);

   3:  // How we call back to the delegate method in the main application

   4:  m_sender.BeginInvoke(m_senderDelegate, new object[] { reversed, false });

 We go over them and how they releate to other things in the show.

Those that are less familiar with delgates may wish to print out the code to look at while they're listening to the show. 

The sample application is extremely simple with no mucky extras to confuse you. It's also extensively commented and includes step-by-step instructions on how to follow through on your own without the podcast. Of course you'd miss out on all the other goodies in the podcast if you didn't listen to it, and God just might mistake you for a PENGUIN LOVER! So... If you know what's good for your eternal soul, you'll download this episode of the Dot Net Preacher Show and get it on your iPod... Errr... I mean Zune! Yeah! On your Zune to listen to! (No heretics here by George! You can send the Spanish Inquisition back home!)

Make sure to tune in next time for an interview with Grant Frisken from Infralution.

Cheers,

The Dot Net Preacher

Intro & Outro Music: God Hates Penguins

By: 1) BJam and 2) Big Mountain Fudge Cake

You can find BJam here and Big Mountain Fudge Cake here.

This is a short follow-up to the last show with a few examples of where you can easily make use of the Load vs. Shown events.

The three things that are good uses are for splash screens in the Load event, and Buy Now or License screens in the Shown event.

There are two very simple sample applications that demonstrate the differences. Here's the code for the two forms:

   1:  namespace DotNetPreacher_001_Shown_A

   2:  {

   3:      public partial class Form1 : Form

   4:      {

   5:          public Form1()

   6:          {

   7:              InitializeComponent();

   8:          }

   9:   

  10:          private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

  11:          {

  12:              // Here we create the splash form in the Load event. Notice how the main form doesn't show when you run it.

  13:              SplashScreen splash = new SplashScreen();

  14:              splash.ShowDialog();

  15:              // See the Shown event for another hint on getting rid of the splash screen.

  16:              // Check the other sample app for an example of showing the license form in the Shown event.

  17:          }

  18:   

  19:          private void Form1_Shown(object sender, EventArgs e)

  20:          {

  21:              // This might be a good place to get rid of your splash screen. In that case, you may wish to move the

  22:              // declaration to a global scope and then create it in the load event.

  23:              // This would be normal as you don't generally have any way to close a splash screen. 

  24:              // i.e. The "splash" above would have it's form border style set to none.

  25:              //    e.g. splash.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None; // But probably done in the designer...

  26:          }

  27:      }

  28:  }

  29:   

  30:   

  31:  namespace DotNetPreacher_001_Shown_B

  32:  {

  33:      public partial class Form1 : Form

  34:      {

  35:          public Form1()

  36:          {

  37:              InitializeComponent();

  38:          }

  39:   

  40:          private void Form1_Shown(object sender, EventArgs e)

  41:          {

  42:              // Here we load the license form in the Shown event when the main form is shown.

  43:              // Notice here how you can see the main form behind the license form.

  44:              LicenseForm lic = new LicenseForm();

  45:              lic.ShowDialog();

  46:          }

  47:      }

  48:  }

 Pretty simple stuff. The effect is what you're after though.

Cheers!

The Dot Net Preacher

Intro Music: Sunlight Euphoria

By: U~Gene

You can find U~Gene and more great music at http://ugene.promodj.ru. (It's in Russian, but you'll manage. The links are easy to see.)

The two take away tidbits of code for adding Properties to your 2.0 .NET application are:

using DotNetPreacher_001_Shown.Properties;

That gives you access to the settings, and:

Settings.Default.Save();

That lets you save your application settings. See the sample application for details.

Download the sample application here:

Episode #1: Shown vs. Load & Properties

Intro Music: "Two Gods"
By: Attrition

You can find those blasphemers at http://www.attrition.co.uk/ (Caution - that only works in Internet Explorer... Don't blame me... I told you they were blashphemers!), or you can also find them at http://www.myspace.com/danteskitchen. 

Intro Music:: "Gayer Than God"
By: Assacre

You can find these godless heathens at http://www.assacre.com/