I was a recent guest on Jesse Liberty's Yet Another Podcast talking about the latest Visual Studio, ASP.NET and Azure releases.  Download / Listen:   Yet Another Podcast #75–Jon Galloway on ASP.NET/ MVC/ Azure  Co-hosted shows:  Jesse's been inviting me to co-host shows and I told him I'd show up when I was available. It's a nice change to be a drive-by co-host on a show (compared with the work that goes into organizing / editing / typing show notes for Herding Code shows). My main focus is on Herding Code, but it's nice to pop in and talk to Jesse's excellent guests when it works out. Some shows I've co-hosted over the past year:  Yet Another Podcast #76–Glenn Block on Node.js & Technology in China  Yet Another Podcast  #73 - Adam Kinney on developing for Windows 8 with HTML5   Yet Another Podcast #64 - John Papa & Javascript  Yet Another Podcast #60 - Steve Sanderson and John Papa on Knockout.js  Yet Another Podcast #54–Damian Edwards on ASP.NET  Yet Another Podcast #53–Scott Hanselman on Blogging  Yet Another Podcast #52–Peter Torr on Windows Phone Multitasking  Yet Another Podcast #51–Shawn Wildermuth: //build, Xaml Programming & Beyond  And some more on the way that haven't been released yet. Some of these I'm pretty quiet, on others I get wacky and hassle the guests because, hey, not my podcast so not my problem.  Show notes from the ASP.NET / MVC / Azure show:     What was just released         Visual Studio 2012 Web Developer features      ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms             Strongly Typed data controls        Data access via command methods        Similar Binding syntax to ASP.NET MVC        Some context: Damian Edwards and WebFormsMVP        Two questions from Jesse:                 Q: Are you making this harder or more complicated for Web Forms developers?                     Short answer: Nothing's removed, it's just a new option            History of SqlDataSource, ObjectDataSource                   Q: If I'm using some MVC patterns, why not just move to MVC?                     Short answer: This works really well in hybrid applications, doesn't require a rewrite            Allows sharing models, validation, other code between Web Forms and MVC                           ASP.NET MVC             Adaptive Rendering (oh, also, this is in Web Forms 4.5 as well)        Display Modes        Mobile project template using jQuery Mobile        OAuth login to allow Twitter, Google, Facebook, etc. login           Jon (and friends') MVC 4 book on the way: Professional ASP.NET MVC 4      Windows 8 development             Jesse and Jon announce they're working on a new book: Pro Windows 8 Development with XAML and C#        Jon and Jesse agree that it's nice to be able to write Windows 8 applications using the same skills they picked up for Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone development.           Compare / contrast ASP.NET MVC and Windows 8 development             Q: Does ASP.NET and HTML5 development overlap?                 Jon thinks they overlap in the MVC world because you're writing HTML views without controls          Jon describes how his web development career moved from a preoccupation with server code to a focus on user interaction, which occurs in the browser          Jon mentions his NDC Oslo presentation on Learning To Love HTML as Beautiful Code               Q: How do you apply C# / XAML or HTML5 skills to Windows 8 development?         Q: If I'm a XAML programmer, what's the learning curve on getting up to speed on ASP.NET MVC?                 Jon describes the difference in application lifecycle and state management          Jon says it's nice that web development is really interactive compared to application development               Q: Can you learn MVC by reading a book? Or is it a lot bigger than that?           What is Azure, and why would I use it?             Jon describes the traditional Azure platform mode and how Azure Web Sites fits in        Q: Why wouldn't Jesse host his blog on Azure Web Sites?                 Domain names on Azure Web Sites          File hosting options               Q: Is Azure just another host? How is it different from any of the other shared hosting options?                 A: Azure gives you the ability to scale up or down whenever you want          A: Other services are available if or when you want them