Aaron Stainback

• Tip 3: Wrap events up in Task-returning APIs and await them

  Mar 20, 2013 at 5:11 PM

  @wkempf: I agree with you on your opinion of IObservable vs Task.  Tasks are great in their place but if IObservable is the right decision because of a reoccurring event then you loose a lot of composition options if you return a Task instead.  Too bad I can't give you a plus one

  @ljw1004: I also think these async tips have been very informative and would love to see more on the subject in a more in depth fashion.

• Programming the Cloud with Actors: Inside ActorFx

  Feb 20, 2013 at 3:26 PM

  @luzi:I admit that "magic" strings make me cringe a little but after dealing with distributed systems for a number of years and all the headaches around versioning and in place upgrades, etc...  Even something as simple as an enum can be a real pain.  I'm fine with the "magic" strings as long as their are nice abstractions on top of them.  I would consider the "magic" strings almost like Assembly or IL, Wrap them nicely then you only rarely have to think about them.

• Programming the Cloud with Actors: Inside ActorFx

  Feb 20, 2013 at 3:19 PM

  Is this looking to fill the same space in .NET that something like Akka fills in Java?  Thanks.

• Visual Studio Achievements For Windows Store Apps

  Jan 28, 2013 at 1:03 PM

  Hey got it.  Thanks for all your help.

• Visual Studio Achievements For Windows Store Apps

  Jan 25, 2013 at 10:58 AM

  Hey it's nice to have these new achievements but there is still a bug in one of the Azure Acheivements."Show Me The Cache"

  <dataCacheClients>
      <dataCacheClient name="default">
        <hosts>
          <host name="xxx.cache.windows.net" cachePort="22233" />
        </hosts>
        <securityProperties mode="Message">
          <messageSecurity authorizationInfo="[xxx]"></messageSecurity>
        </securityProperties>
      </dataCacheClient>
      <dataCacheClient name="SslEndpoint">
        <hosts>
          <host name="xxx.cache.windows.net" cachePort="22243" />
        </hosts>
        <securityProperties mode="Message" sslEnabled="true">
          <messageSecurity authorizationInfo="[xxx]"></messageSecurity>
        </securityProperties>
      </dataCacheClient>
    </dataCacheClients>
  

  DataCacheFactoryConfiguration config = new DataCacheFactoryConfiguration("default");
  DataCacheFactory cacheFactory = new DataCacheFactory(config);
  DataCache defaultCache = cacheFactory.GetDefaultCache();
  
  defaultCache.Put("testkey", "testobject");
  string strObject = (string)defaultCache.Get("testkey");
  defaultCache.Remove("testkey");
  

   

  With the above code It seems I should get the acheivement but it does not unlock.  Please help.  Thanks.

• YOW! 2012: Jafar Husain - Rx and Netflix, A Match Made in Composable Asynchrony

  Dec 27, 2012 at 9:33 AM

  Loved the talk but I was curious why not use something similar to ODATA URI\URL Conventions instead of just paths?  That should still allow for a easy resource based caching strategy but with some more query ability other than just paths.  What do you gain with just paths?

   

  Again loved the talk!!

• Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing TypeScript

  Oct 01, 2012 at 1:46 PM

  I like it, especially all the inference.  Even though I don't like java script very much, this seems pretty nice.

• Retrieving remote data using xhr

  Oct 01, 2012 at 11:42 AM

  This seems to be the wrong video for the description text.  This is about event handlers not WinJS.xhr()

• C++ and Beyond 2012: Alexandrescu, Meyers, and Sutter - Ask Us Anything

  Sep 19, 2012 at 6:18 AM

  Thanks for this.  Will there be more C++ and Beyond 2012 posted?  Thanks.

• Announcing Achievements For Visual Studio 2012 RC

  Jul 07, 2012 at 12:16 AM

  "Show Me The Cache" Achievement still BROKEN!!!  I've been waiting to get this thing forever please fix ASAP!!! It's the only one I need.  I have all the rest.  I did this many times with the Azure 1.6 and it never worked and I was told it was a bug and would be fixed in the next achievement release.  Now I'm using Azure 1.7 and the latest achievement release and I tried the "shared" cache which is the old way of doing it and I also tried the new cache preview and neither unlocked this achievement.  What's the point of Achievements if some are really un achievable.

   

  Here is the link where karstenj says it's a bug with the cache url.  PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP!!

  http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Cannot-get-Show-Me-The-Cache-Achievement-to-work

   

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