The Productive C# Podcast
By Andrea Angella - Senior Software Engineering Manager, former Microsoft C# MVP
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How to transition from Lead Engineer to Engineering Manager
Learn some advice on how you can transition from Lead Software Engineer to a Software Engineering Manager in your own company. What strategies can you use? How can you increase your influence to get new responsibilities?
To embrace DevOps, how important it is to be skilled in containerization and CI/CD tools?
How much do you need to know as a C# developer about Docker, CI/CD tools to embrace DevOps?
ABOUT THE HOST
Technical Lead @ Redgate Software | ✨Former Six-Times MVP on C# | 💖 Grow Software Engineering Leaders | 💻 Trainer, Mentor and Coach @ productivecsharp.com | 🎤 Host of The Productive C# Podcast | 📚 Books Reader
Avoiding boilerplate and architecture erosion with Metalama
This is the recording of an event where the architect of Metalama presented the Metalama framework and how it can help you write easy to maintain code.
Free Ask Me Anything Webinar on Software Development
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.NET Conf 2024 - Key Announcements
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ABOUT THE HOST
Technical Lead @ Redgate Software | ✨Former Six-Times MVP on C# | 💖 Grow Software Engineering Leaders | 💻 Trainer, Mentor and Coach @ productivecsharp.com | 🎤 Host of The Productive C# Podcast | 📚 Books Reader
What's your opinion on rich domain model and POCO classes?
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ABOUT THE HOST
Andrea Angella | Technical Lead @ Redgate Software | ✨Former Six-Times MVP on C# | 💖 Grow Software Engineering Leaders | 💻 Trainer, Mentor and Coach @ productivecsharp.com | 🎤 Host of The Productive C# Podcast | 📚 Books Reader
What's the minimal foundation you need on C#?
Videon on Everyday C# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZk8T-9kI3w
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ABOUT THE HOST
Andrea Angella | Technical Lead @ Redgate Software | ✨Former Six-Times MVP on C# | 💖 Grow Software Engineering Leaders | 💻 Trainer, Mentor and Coach @ productivecsharp.com | 🎤 Host of The Productive C# Podcast | 📚 Books Reader
How do I know if management is for me?
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ABOUT THE HOST
Andrea Angella | Technical Lead @ Redgate Software | ✨Former Six-Times MVP on C# | 💖 Grow Software Engineering Leaders | 💻 Trainer, Mentor and Coach @ productivecsharp.com | 🎤 Host of The Productive C# Podcast | 📚 Books Reader
How to keep up with the pace of new features added to C# and .NET?
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ABOUT THE HOST
Andrea Angella | Technical Lead @ Redgate Software | ✨Former Six-Times MVP on C# | 💖 Grow Software Engineering Leaders | 💻 Trainer, Mentor and Coach @ productivecsharp.com | 🎤 Host of The Productive C# Podcast | 📚 Books Reader
What is C#?
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ABOUT THE HOST
Andrea Angella | Technical Lead @ Redgate Software | ✨Former Six-Times MVP on C# | 💖 Grow Software Engineering Leaders | 💻 Trainer, Mentor and Coach @ productivecsharp.com | 🎤 Host of The Productive C# Podcast | 📚 Books Reader
How to work on a large codebase
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ABOUT THE HOST
Andrea Angella | Technical Lead @ Redgate Software | ✨Former Six-Times MVP on C# | 💖 Grow Software Engineering Leaders | 💻 Trainer, Mentor and Coach @ productivecsharp.com | 🎤 Host of The Productive C# Podcast | 📚 Books Reader
How to navigate the transition from senior to lead software engineer
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ABOUT THE HOST
Technical Lead @ Redgate Software | ✨Former Six-Times MVP on C# | 💖 Grow Software Engineering Leaders | 💻 Trainer, Mentor and Coach @ productivecsharp.com | 🎤 Host of The Productive C# Podcast | 📚 Books Reader
The Future of C# in the AI era
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ABOUT THE HOST
Andrea Angella | Technical Lead @ Redgate Software | ✨Former Six-Times MVP on C# | 💖 Grow Software Engineering Leaders | 💻 Trainer, Mentor and Coach @ productivecsharp.com | 🎤 Host of The Productive C# Podcast | 📚 Books Reader
From Hobbyist to Professional - Andrea Angella Quick Coding Story
A quick story of my professional journey on how I started coding until now leading teams of .NET software engineers (in 2024) https://www.productivecsharp.com/
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ABOUT THE HOST
Andrea Angella | Technical Lead @ Redgate Software | ✨Former Six-Times MVP on C# | 💖 Grow Software Engineering Leaders | 💻 Trainer, Mentor and Coach @ productivecsharp.com | 🎤 Host of The Productive C# Podcast | 📚 Books Reader
Free Delegation Secrets Masterclass for Software Engineers and Engineering Leaders
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ABOUT THE HOST
Andrea Angella | Technical Lead @ Redgate Software | ✨Former Six-Times MVP on C# | 💖 Grow Software Engineering Leaders | 💻 Trainer, Mentor and Coach @ productivecsharp.com | 🎤 Host of The Productive C# Podcast | 📚 Books Reader
Learning and Sharing for Success
Ask Me Anything - Free Webinar
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Build Amazing .NET Apps with C# and the Uno Platform
Listen to a fantastic interview with Jérôme Laban, CTO of the Uno Platform, to understand how to build complete .NET apps using C# everywhere, thanks to the new C# Markup. Master C# with Productive C# Membership at http://productivecsharp.com/membership
Leadership is Language
You are a leader, and you don't know it yet. Learn my key takeaways from the book "Leadership is Language".
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ABOUT THE HOST
Andrea Angella | Technical Lead @ Redgate Software | ✨Former Six-Times MVP on C# | 💖 Grow Software Engineering Leaders | 💻 Trainer, Mentor and Coach @ productivecsharp.com | 🎤 Host of The Productive C# Podcast | 📚 Books Reader
Leveraging async braindumping to improve the quality of your meetings
In this episode I share how async braindumping helps to make your meetings more inclusive and fair as well as improving the quality of discussions and decision making. There is a little price to pay in terms or organization but the benefits are well worth the cost.
Reasons Why You Should Learn C# in 2025
These are the 15 reasons why I consider C# the best programming language and why you should learn C# in 2025.
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Microsoft Semantic Kernel - Integrating AI in your C# applications
Semantic Kernet project: https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel
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.NET Conf 2023 - Productive C# Special Event
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RavenDB and .NET with Oren Eini
In this episode, we will be learning more about the NoSQL Database, Raven DB, and why you should consider using it in your applications. Raven DB is written in C# .NET, so we explored what that means and the lessons Oren learned along the way. Finally, we finished with some career advice for .NET developers. Oren is a legend in the .NET community and a prolific blogger. It was a pleasure speaking with him. Enjoy the show!
Links mentioned in the show:
- https://ravendb.net
- https://cloud.ravendb.net
- https://ayende.com
- @ayende
Crucial Conversations
Learn about techniques to handle crucial conversations at work and make decisions safely and effectively. Subscribe https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/productivecsharp/subscribe
Modern Software Engineering
What is Software Engineering? Learn about the two key fundamental challenges of software engineer, how to become an high-performance team and proudly call yourself a Software Engineer.
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Structs Improvements and Record Structs in C# 10
Global Usings in C# 10
DateOnly and TimeOnly structs in .NET 6
How to become a fluent C# developer with Codingame
The Mikado Method
Records in C# 9
Learn how C# 9 allows you to easily create immutable objects with value-object semantics using record types (data classes). www.productivecsharp.com
XML Trees and LINQ to XML in C#
Debugging with OzCode
Visual Studio vs Rider
Learn the Pros and Cons of Visual Studio and Rider, the two main IDE for .NET developers.
Playing with the Azure CLI
Top tips to secure your .NET web applications
Learn some of the most important ways to make your .NET web applications more secure. We'll talk about input validation, encoding, https, content security policies, sql injection, password hashing, secure static code analysis and so on. This a summary of my top learnings after attending a 3 days intense cyber security training called Proactive Web Defence from MWR Infosecurity. Highly recommended! https://www.mwrinfosecurity.com/training/proactive-web-defense/
ContextMenu Challenge in WPF
Learn how to use ContextMenu in WPF and how to bind a MenuItem to a command in your ViewModel using XAML. www.productivecsharp.com
File System Integration Tests and Copy Directory
Learn how you can write integration tests on the file system, how to create a temporary directory and copy directories in C#. www.productivecsharp.com
Refactor Interface to Abstract Base Class
Andrea Angella share the experience of refactoring an interface to an abstract base class to remove duplication and make some code easier to extend. Learn a specific example when using inheritance is probably a better decision then using an interface. www.productivecsharp.com
Introducing The Productive C# Podcast
The Productive C# Podcast is a new podcast that cover everything that matters in the life of a C# Software Developer. Meet the host Andrea Angella and learn what you should expect from this new podcast on C# software development. www.productivecsharp.com
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ABOUT THE HOST
Andrea Angella | Technical Lead @ Redgate Software | ✨Former Six-Times MVP on C# | 💖 Grow Software Engineering Leaders | 💻 Trainer, Mentor and Coach @ productivecsharp.com | 🎤 Host of The Productive C# Podcast | 📚 Books Reader