The History of .NET - Richard Campbell

.NET continues to evolve - but how did it get here? Join Richard Campbell on a tour of the history of .NET, Visual Studio and the related tools that have been helping developers produce millions of applications. So many forces shape how development tools are created, and Richard ties together the story of the hardware, software, market and political forces that have brought .NET to be an open-source, cross-platform development platform. The winding path of .NET has been influenced by many things along the way, and the future looks bright!
Richard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry both on the hardware and software sides, development and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013 and was on the board of directors of Telerik which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today he is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms and is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org), a public charity that builds open source software for disaster relief. Richard is also the host of two podcasts: .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com) for .NET developers and RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com) for IT Professionals.
This session was recorded at Swetugg Stockholm 2023, Swetugg is run by a group of volunteers with different IT backgrounds with a common denominator: A passion for creating good software and better software developers, no matter if you are just starting your journey or have been writing code since the beginning of unix time.

[@ashrafdar]

Excellent Watch!! Love you Sir!!

[@JanekBogucki]

Excellent watch, fact rich and engagingly presented. Thanks Richard!

[@deweywsu]

Wow, what a wonderful talk.

[@oph1066]

Does anyone know what happened to this book? was it abandoned in favour of making it a presentation?

[@RyanPerrella]

Knowing .net is associated with Balmer and Baal Gates via your inclusion of them on the thumb nail makes me glad that of all the domains ive registered, i’ve never registered a .net.
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