Jarred Capellman

Laptop is hit or miss for me.  Last year in Orlando it seemed like my co-workers saw I was on Lync and bombarded me with support issues during the sessions.  This year since I am so close to the convention center if there was an emergency I can just walk back to my hotel.

Definitely bring at least your cell phone though so you can OneNote some notes during sessions.

Great discussion.  I've moved away from ConcurrentQueue and ConcurrentDictionary Collections in favor of ImmutableList and ImmutableDictionary collections on a high performance a WCF service that uses TPL extensively.  I noticed a nice performance increase on the larger collections when iterating through larger collections.

For everyone getting started, the only real gotcha I've found is to remember to take the return result and assign it to the collection like so:

var tmpCollection = ImmutableList<string>.Empty;

tmpCollection = tmpCollection.Add("Test");

Overall though, I am very pleased with the new Collections, kudos to your team!

Great session on async/await, definitely filled some gaps I had with it.

@orena:That'd be awesome!  How can I get in touch with you to send my address?

Peter Torr,

Just want to say, hands down the best session I've watched yet as it filled in all of the gaps I had on using C++ in a non-game scenario.

Great session, wish those API posters were available to order.  I will definitely be going the Hybrid route going forward.

@Rajnish Chauhan: can't wait to watch it, been getting some interesting VS errors (ie non-language errors) when trying get a C++ library inside of a WP8 app.  Hopefully the session goes over the "proper" way to do so.

@Wizardist: Exactly, very sad I was not able to experience that in person.