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The Visual Studio Documentary - Alan Cooper, the Father of Visual Basic [The Visual Studio Documentary - Alan Cooper, the Father of Visual Basic]

tina10 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:25:00 GMT

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.

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Corrinne Yu: Principal Engine Architect, Halo Team Microsoft [Corrinne Yu: Principal Engine Architect, Halo Team Microsoft ]

tina10 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:34:00 GMT

Corrinne Yu is Principal Engine Architect at Halo Team Microsoft. She is a 1st Party Halo Lead. She is the first and only female Technical Lead of the whole Microsoft Game Studios. With almost 20 years of programming experience in large companies, she has programmed games and engines since the beginning of the 3D game industry and was an early pioneer of game engine development. She has worked as Director of Technology of several 3D game companies like ION Storm and Gearbox and was Lead Programmer of an early version of the Prey engine. She is the first female founding member of Microsoft's Direct 3D Advisory Board and Graphics Advisory Board. Besides gaming, she had programmed on the Space Shuttle Project at Rockwell International California. She had designed and conducted accelerator experiments at LINAC in California and the accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Her nuclear physics research had won her a national award from the U.S. Department of Energy. She volunteered time in the past to advise on CUDA, visual computer and GPU simulation at NVidia. She remains active on the GAB and continues to volunteer time to review the designs of new Direct 3Ds.

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The Access Show - Episode Two [The Access Show - Episode Two]

tina10 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:32:00 GMT

This is the second episode of The Access Show with Steve Greenberg & Ryan McMinn. They just came back from the sold-out SharePoint conference in Las Vegas where they launched Access Services and wanted to give you an update as well as introduce some customers that have been using the technical preview and building web databases.

Robert Hogg - Black Marble Consulting
www.blackmarble.co.uk

Michael Matloub – Connolly, Inc.
www.connolly.com

Check out the Access 2010 Intro series at the Access team blog.

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The Visual Studio Documentary: Anders Hejlsberg full length interview [The Visual Studio Documentary: Anders Hejlsberg full length interview]

tina10 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:02:00 GMT

The Visual Studio Documentary Part One and Part Two.
S. Somasegar's Full Length Interview
Jason Zander Full Length Interview
Tim Huckaby Full Length Interview
Scott Guthrie Full Length Interview

Anders 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.

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Life at Microsoft: The truth revealed...again! [Life at Microsoft: The truth revealed...again! ]

tina10 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:54:00 GMT

False rumors about life at Microsoft abound, like "drinking the juice" or sleeping at our desks; even that everybody watches Battlestar Galactica. Truth is: only most of us watch it. In a continued effort to debunk the rumors once and for all, I present to you - Life at Microsoft Episode 2.

If you missed the first episode, go check it out!

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Office Casual - How to Twitter in Outlook with TwInbox [Office Casual - How to Twitter in Outlook with TwInbox]

tina10 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:12:00 GMT

There are more than a dozen ways to follow Twitter, but TwInbox (formally known as OutTwit in its beta stages) places some powerful Outlook capabilities in the hands of us Twitters as explained but Office Casuals very own Doug Thomas.

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The Visual Studio Documentary: Scott Guthrie Full Length Interview [The Visual Studio Documentary: Scott Guthrie Full Length Interview]

tina10 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:56:00 GMT

The Visual Studio Documentary Part One and Part Two.
S. Somasegar's Full Length Interview
Jason Zander Full Length Interview
Tim Huckaby Full Length Interview

Scott 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.

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Office Casual - Jott [Office Casual - Jott]

tina10 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:47:00 GMT

How would like to make a quick call and do things in Outlook like send email, schedule meetings, and create notes? Doug Thomas made this Office Casual video about a service called Jott and a nifty free add-in from Office Online.

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Office Casual - How pictures make great PowerPoint (With Fotolia) [Office Casual - How pictures make great PowerPoint (With Fotolia)]

tina10 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:54:00 GMT

Doug Thomas of Office Casual fame is back with another pimp my presentation tip using Fotolia. If a picture says 1000 words, why are we still using loads of them in our presentations? Here are some advantages of using images and a new add-in from Fotolia so you can search for great images without leaving PowerPoint or Word.

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The Visual Studio Documentary: Tim Huckaby Full Length Interview [The Visual Studio Documentary: Tim Huckaby Full Length Interview]

tina10 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:52:00 GMT

The Visual Studio Documentary Part One and Part Two.
S. Somasegar's Full Length Interview
Jason Zander Full Length Interview

Tim 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.

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Windows 7 and your Xbox 360 [Windows 7 and your Xbox 360]

tina10 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:29:00 GMT

Most of us own a PC, most of us own an Xbox 360 and most of us will be installing Windows 7. So what exactly can Windows 7 and your Xbox 360 do together? I sit down for a chat with Ben Reed as he takes us through the new Windows 7 Extender for Windows Media Center. I also ask him the questions you suggested in the coffeehouse.

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The Visual Studio Documentary: Jason Zander Full Length Interview [The Visual Studio Documentary: Jason Zander Full Length Interview]

tina10 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:52:00 GMT

The Visual Studio Documentary Part One and Part Two.
S. Somasegar's Full Length Interview

Jason Zander is the General Manager for the Visual Studio Team here at Microsoft. He was an enormous asset to The Visual Studio Documentary Part One and Part Two. Here is Jason Zander in his own words from his blog:

I'm the General Manager for the Visual Studio team in the Developer Division at Microsoft, including Visual Studio Pro and Visual Studio Team System. I've been in the Developer Division for a long time (back to ODBC). I was lucky to be one of a small handful of folks who started working on what would become the CLR back in '97. I worked primarily on the metadata, file formats, and compiler integration. I was the first dev lead for those features as well as the debugger/profiler. I was the Development Manager for V1.1 and the first part of V2.0, and ultimately became the PUM of the team before taking the GM role first in .NET and then for Visual Studio.
I love writing code! And it is an amazing opportunity to work on a team where dogfooding my product requires means writing code. Please enjoy the .NET Framework and Visual Studio and make sure to send us your feedback!

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Microsoft Access - 2010 Demo [Microsoft Access - 2010 Demo]

tina10 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:58:00 GMT

This is the first episode of The Access Show with Ryan McMinn and Clint Covington. They have a big announcement for us—Access Services is new functionality as part of SharePoint 2010 that allows users to create new databases with forms and reports that run in the browser. Ryan takes us through a quick tour of the new Access design tools to create a donor tracking app and publishes it to Access Services and SharePoint. Check out the Access 2010 Intro series at the Access team blog.

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Harrison Clarity - Office Layout using Visio [Harrison Clarity - Office Layout using Visio]

tina10 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:39:00 GMT

The Office Online team here at Microsoft are some of the most creative around. They aren't afraid to take risks and they do more than just demos to show off their latest goods. I recently came across a new Harrison Clarity series they are producing and couldn't help but snatching it up for myself and showing it to Channel 9. This episodes blurb: "Harrison Clarity wasn't very interested in the real world anymore. But he wasnt expecting to end up somewhere else. Learn how Clarity designs his new office layout using a built-in Visio template".

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The Visual Studio Documentary: S. Somasegar Full Length Interview [The Visual Studio Documentary: S. Somasegar Full Length Interview]

tina10 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:50:00 GMT

S. Somasegar made an enormous impact in The Visual Studio Documentary and talks deeply and passionately about the future of Visual Studio. He dives into the features, direction and tools. He gets into productivity, team systems, IDE and the brand new shell, code focused productivity and enhancements, test driven development, VB, C#, functional programming, F#, C++, Java Script and so much more. This video is his full video from The Visual Studio Documentary.

Part One: The Visual Studio Documentary
Part Two: The Visual Studio Documentary

S. Somasegar is also an avid blogger.

BIO
S. Somasegar is the senior vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, S. Somasegar leads the teams responsible for providing tools and developer platform technologies targeted at developers, designers and teams involved in software development. This includes the Microsoft .NET developer platform that provides a consistent programming model spanning client, Web, server, device and services platform, Silverlight, the Visual Studio family of products, and Expression Studio.

Somasegar is also responsible for the Web server platform including Internet Information Services (IIS), Media Server and Commerce Server. His team also owns MSDN and TechNet online properties to enable a deep connection with the developer and IT professional audience.

In addition, Somasegar oversees the Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) in Hyderabad, India, and the Microsoft Canada Development Center (MCDC) in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Somasegar joined Microsoft in 1989, and worked on eight different operating system releases before heading up the Developer Division.

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Questions about Game Development [Questions about Game Development]

tina10 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:21:01 GMT

On Monday (Monday is a busy day) I will be sitting down with Corrinne Yu - The Principal Engine Developer for Halo but she has been in the gaming industry for more than fifteen years and has worked with the best. We are going to talk about the early days of 3D engine programming (Prey engines, Carmack's early Wolfenstein engines, shipping engines with the very first Direct3D and part of early programming history (3DO, 3D Realms, GT Interactive) Also Visual C and GPU shader. Let me know if you have any questions for her. Thanks,

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I'm heading to Bungie Studios on Monday and looking for your Questions [I'm heading to Bungie Studios on Monday and looking for your Questions]

tina10 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:49:08 GMT

I am reaching out again as you can tell my Inside Xbox show is more of a community show. I am heading to Bungie for an interview with Marty O'Donnell who is the composer behind the Halo Soundtrack. Awesome, after covering the gaming industry for more than eight years this will be my first trip inside the doors of Bungie. Anyway, let me know if you have any questions for him. Thanks,

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Questions about Windows and Your Xbox 360 [Questions about Windows and Your Xbox 360]

tina10 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:38:51 GMT

I'm doing an interview on Monday with somebody from the Windows 7 team to coincide with the win 7 launch about Windows and your Xbox 360. I got some great questions from forum members from the Halo 3 ODST video and am looking to do the same year. Let me know if you have any questions? Thanks,

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The Visual Studio Documentary: Part Two [The Visual Studio Documentary: Part Two]

tina10 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:56:00 GMT

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 Huckaby
S. Somasegar, Dave Mendlen, Dee Dee Walsh, Mardi Brekke, Jeff Hadfield, Alan Cooper, Anders Hejlsberg, and Tony Goodhew

We hope you enjoy!

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The Visual Studio Documentary: Part One [The Visual Studio Documentary: Part One]

tina10 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:16:00 GMT

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 Huckaby
S. Somasegar, Dave Mendlen, Dee Dee Walsh, Mardi Brekke, Jeff Hadfield, Alan Cooper, Anders Hejlsberg, and Tony Goodhew

Part 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, supported the new Windows 95

1997 – Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 – introduction of IntelliSense

1998 – Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 that included Visual Basic 6.0 released (first VS)

2002 – Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 7.0

2002 – Visual Studio .NET

2003 – Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 7.1

2003 – Microsoft Visual Studio w/Intellisense

2003 – Visual Studio .NET

2004 – Announce Visual Studios 2005 – Code name Whidbey

2005 – Visual Studio 2005 release w/Extensibility

2005 – Visual Studio Express released

2006 - Expression Tool Set released - devs and designers work together

2006 – Visual Studio Team release – November 30th

2007 – Visual Studio 2008 (code name Orcas) ships November = Video Studio Shell

2010 - Visual Studios (code name Rosario)

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Interview with Frank O' Connor of 343 Industries and Joseph Staten from Bungie [Interview with Frank O' Connor of 343 Industries and Joseph Staten from Bungie]

tina10 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:51:00 GMT

Joseph Staten is the writer and Creative Director of Halo 3 ODST. He talks about the Meta-Story and why Halo 3 ODST was the favorite game of the series for the Devs. Joseph also talks about how ODST came to be and how they created a game with half of the staff of Halo 3.

Frank O' Connor has made the jump from Bungie and is now at 343 Industries. He talks about 343's association with Bungie and Microsoft. We still lower third him at Bungie but will fix that. He also talks about "waypoint" a new Halo Experience.

If you missed the interview with Curtis Creamer the producer behind ODST you can watch that here.

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Halo 3 ODST: Interview with lead Producer Curtis Creamer from Bungie [Halo 3 ODST: Interview with lead Producer Curtis Creamer from Bungie]

tina10 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:21:00 GMT

Halo 3 ODST went on sale at midnight last night and I went to the launch party to ask some of your questions and talk to the people behind the game. Curtis Creamer is the Halo 3 ODST games producer and here I had an opportunity to ask him questions from forum members: algorith, intelman, Bas, Festive Turkey, CreamFilling512, W3bbo and even channel 9's newest team member Clint Rutkas.

We also talk about special characters that appear in the game, how a game goes from idea to store shelves, and what are some of the new technologies that went into making Halo 3 ODST.

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Have any questions about your Zune and Xbox 360 [Have any questions about your Zune and Xbox 360]

tina10 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:42:42 GMT

Next week I am sitting down with the Zune team in celebration of the Zune HD and I'm wondering if any of you have any questions you would to me ask them on your behalf. Part of this piece will be on what you can do with your Zune via the Xbox and the second part is just all about the Zune. Thanks,

tina

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What would you ask the Halo 3 ODST Developers? [What would you ask the Halo 3 ODST Developers?]

tina10 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:21:01 GMT

I'm covering the Halo 3 ODST launch party next Monday night and I will have the opportunity to sit down with the developers behind the game. I'm looking for questions you would like answered. If you were going to sit down and chat with the developers behind ODST, what would you ask them? Thanks,

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Office Casual - The basics of Visio [Office Casual - The basics of Visio ]

tina10 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:58:00 GMT

Doug Thomas from Office Casual gives those of us who aren't familiar with Visio a brief tour using the example of "How to move your office with Visio". Visio is a diagramming program for Microsoft Windows that uses vector graphics to create diagrams. The standard and profession editions both share the same interface but clearly the professional is for the more advanced.

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