Welcome to the Visual Studio Documentary. This is an hour long documentary that is split into two parts. Roughly a half hour each. Welcome to part two, where we dive straight into life at Microsoft during the Java Lawsuit. Here is Part

One in case you missed it. Next week we will begin to publish each interviewee's full length interview for an even deeper look.

Not only did we sift through hundreds of videos and assets but we sat down for an intimate conversation with those that were there since the very beginning and those that are taking us into the future.

Scott Guthrie, Dan Fernandez, Jason Zander, Tim HuckabyS. Somasegar, Dave Mendlen, Dee Dee Walsh, Mardi Brekke, Jeff Hadfield, Alan Cooper, Anders Hejlsberg, and Tony GoodhewWe hope you enjoy!

Welcome to the first installment of the Visual Studio Documentary.This is an hour long documentary that is split into two parts, roughly a half hour each. Welcome to part one, where we take you back to the days of MS-DOS and Alan Cooper who originally

sold Visual Basic to Bill Gates back in 1988. Next week we will feature

Part Two but for those that would like to watch it sooner, here is

Part Two. In addition, each week we will post a longer and more in-depth stand alone interview from the interviewees that were featured in the documentary.Not only did we sift through hundreds of videos and assets but we sat down for an intimate conversation with those that were there since the very beginning:

Scott Guthrie, Dan Fernandez, Jason Zander, Tim HuckabyS. Somasegar, Dave Mendlen, Dee Dee Walsh, Mardi Brekke, Jeff Hadfield, Alan Cooper, Anders Hejlsberg, and Tony GoodhewPart One dives into MS-DOS, OS/2, Windows, Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual Basic 2.0, Visual Basic 3.0, Microsoft Visual C++, Visual Interdev, FoxPro, Visual Studio 97, ASP.NET and the early days of Microsoft's Dev community. We hope you enjoy! TIMELINE

Products and Milestones

1975 – Bill Gates and Paul Allen write a version of Basic for Altair 8080

1982 – IBM releases BASCOM 1.0 (developed by Microsoft)

1983 – Microsoft Basic Compiler System v5.35 for MS-DOS release

1984 - Microsoft Basic Compiler System v5.36 release

1985 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 1.0

1986 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 1.01, 1.02, 2.00

1987 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 2.01, 3.00, 4.00

1987 – Microsoft BASIC 6.0

1988 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.00, 4.00b, 4.50

1989 – Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.0

1990 - Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.1

1991 – Microsoft Visual Basic released May 20-Windows World Convention –Atlanta

1992 – Microsoft Visual Basic 2.0

1993 – Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 in Standard and Professional versions

1995 – Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 released, suppo

The Visual Studio Documentary

Part One and

Part Two. S. Somasegar's Full Length Interview

Jason Zander Full Length InterviewTim Huckaby Full Length InterviewScott Guthrie Full Length InterviewAnders Hejlsberg Full Length InterviewAlan Cooper Full Length InterviewJeff Hadfield Full Length InterviewDan Fernandez Full Length Interview

Tony Goodhew Full Length InterviewMardi came to Microsoft in 1993 and in the last 16 years at Microsoft has spent much of her time in the Developer Division (which has had many names through the years). Currently, she is working on the Windows Embedded Marketing team spreading the good word

about Windows on specialized devices.

Dee Dee has been in the industry for nearly thirty years in technical, marketing and biz dev roles. She has worked at Microsoft for 18 years and 11.5 of those years were in developer tools where she did product planning, marketing, biz dev and business

management. She has spent the past several years working on ecommerce technologies (currently working on online Microsoft Store). Prior to Microsoft she worked at the first shareware company, ButtonWare, for 8 years in technical support, product planning

and marketing.

The Visual Studio Documentary

Part One and

Part Two. S. Somasegar's Full Length Interview

Jason Zander Full Length InterviewTim Huckaby Full Length InterviewScott Guthrie Full Length InterviewAnders Hejlsberg Full Length InterviewAlan Cooper Full Length InterviewJeff Hadfield Full Length InterviewDan Fernandez Full Length InterviewTony Goodhew has been a major part of the success of the Visual Studio franchise and is one of the fan favorites from The Visual Studio Documentary. He has some wonderful quotes about old times at Microsoft and helps take us into the future with the next version

of Visual Studio.

The Visual Studio Documentary

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Part Two. S. Somasegar's Full Length Interview

Jason Zander Full Length InterviewTim Huckaby Full Length InterviewScott Guthrie Full Length InterviewAnders Hejlsberg Full Length InterviewAlan Cooper Full Length InterviewJeff Hadfield Full Length InterviewDan Fernandez is a Director in the Developer and Platform Evangelism team at Microsoft. Dan has been with Microsoft since July 2001, working in multiple roles including the Lead Product Manager for Visual Studio Express and Microsoft Popfly, the Visual

C# Product Manager, and as a Developer Evangelist in the Mid-Atlantic district. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked as a developer at several consulting firms including IBM Global Services specializing in web-based and mobile application development. You

can read more about Dan on his blog at

https://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/

The Visual Studio Documentary

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Jason Zander Full Length InterviewTim Huckaby Full Length InterviewScott Guthrie Full Length InterviewAnders Hejlsberg Full Length InterviewAlan Cooper Full Length InterviewJeff has worked with personal computers since the late seventies, when he learned to program BASIC on an Apple II (not an Apple II Plus, mind you). Since then, he’s learned Pascal, Fortran and VB/VB.NET – all of which have been enough to show him that he’s

not a born developer, but he can play one on TV, so to speak. He's working to make The Code Project even more valuable to community members and help bring new services online to make The Code Project even better.Jeff has worked with developers and developer communities for over a decade.All things considered, he'd rather be cycling.

The Visual Studio Documentary

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Jason Zander Full Length InterviewTim Huckaby Full Length InterviewScott Guthrie Full Length InterviewAnders Hejlsberg Full Length Interview

For over 30 years Alan Cooper has been a pioneer of the modern computing era. His groundbreaking work in software invention, design and construction has influenced a generation of programmers and business people—and helped a generation of users. Alan is

the author of two best-selling books,

About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design and

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, and his visionary ideas and outspoken style make him a popular speaker. Whether you know him as the "Father of Visual Basic," the inventor of personas, or the guy who thinks software should be spanked, we know him as

the man whose ideas are the foundation of what we do.

The Visual Studio Documentary

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Jason Zander Full Length InterviewTim Huckaby Full Length InterviewScott Guthrie Full Length InterviewAnders Hejlsberg is a Technical Fellow in the Developer Division. He is an influential creator of development tools and programming languages. He is the chief designer of the C# programming language and a key participant in the development of the Microsoft

.NET framework. Since its initial release in 2000, the C# programming language has been widely adopted and is now standardized by ECMA and ISO. Before his work on C# and the .NET framework, Hejlsberg was an architect for Visual J++ development and the Windows

Foundation classes. Before joining Microsoft in 1996, Hejlsberg was one of the first employees of Borland International Inc. As principal engineer, he was the original author of Turbo Pascal, a revolutionary integrated development environment, and chief architect

of its successor, Delphi. Hejlsberg co-authored "The C# Programming Language", published by Addison Wesley, and has received numerous software patents. In 2001, he was the recipient of the prestigious Dr. Dobbs Excellence in Programming Award. He studied engineering

at the Technical University of Denmark.

The Visual Studio Documentary

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Part Two. S. Somasegar's Full Length Interview

Jason Zander Full Length InterviewTim Huckaby Full Length InterviewScott Guthrie sits down and talks to us about his History with Visual Studio, .NET and what Life at Microsoft used to be like.

Scott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform, where he runs the development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web

applications.

A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the design and development of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework since 1999. Guthrie is also responsible for Microsoft's Web server platform and development tools teams. He has also

more recently driven the development of Silverlight – a cross browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering next generation media experiences and rich internet applications for the Web.

Today, Guthrie directly manages the development teams that build the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), IIS, Commerce Server and the Visual Studio Tools for Web, Client and Silverlight development.

Guthrie graduated with a degree in computer science from Duke University.

The Visual Studio Documentary

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Jason Zander Full Length InterviewTim Huckaby is currently focused on RIA & Rich Client Technologies like WPF, VSTO, Surface, Silverlight and Windows 7 Touch. He has been called a “Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution” by the press.

Tim has been awarded multiple times for the highest rated Keynote and technical presentations for Microsoft and numerous other technology conferences around the world by Microsoft Corporation. Tim has done presentations on Microsoft

Technologies at technology events all over the world and is consistently rated in the top 10% of all speakers at these events. Tim has done keynote demos for numerous Microsoft executives including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.

Tim founded InterKnowlogy, experts in Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Platforms, in 1999 and has 25+ years experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on

an architecture team. Tim is a Microsoft Regional Director, an MVP and serves on multiple Microsoft councils and boards.