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Re: First look at 5 features of IE9 RC

Sampy — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:54:11 GMT

I like the new tabs

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Re: Inside the new Channel 9: Random Team Drive-By

Sampy — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:50:37 GMT

32 minutes ago, CKurt wrote

Good video Charles! It was awesome to see Dan and Duncam crawling trough the buggs!

I have a question. The 'post coffeehouse thread' came up pretty late in teh cycle. Did it push back the original Launch Date for Rev 9 ?

Yeah, we didn't get IE 9 that much ahead of you guys but we have top men working on it.

Top. Men.

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Re: Mike Sampson: Inside Rev9

Sampy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:34:08 GMT

QueryFactory is actually very simple

namespace Channel9Controller.Infrastructure 
{ 
    public class QueryFactory : IQueryFactory 
    { 
        private readonly IUnityContainer container; 
        public QueryFactory(IUnityContainer container) 
        {
            this.container = container; 
        } 
        public TQueryType Create() where TQueryType : IQuery 
        { 
            TQueryType query = container.Resolve(); 
            query.EnableCaching(); 
             return query; 
        } 
    } 
}

The trick is that every query takes an NHibernate ISession that it uses to do its work. I have that session delivered up by the Unity container so all the Query has to do is specify that it needs ISession by taking one it its constructor and it gets the session for this request. Queries can also take addition parameters if they need. Most don't need any but some need to do operations based on when Now is so they take an IClock which is a simple interface that has a single property Now. I use this instead of DateTime.Now to make things easier to test and to ensure that time is tightly controlled in the application. I even have a specialty clock that returns Now as the most recently passed 5 minute mark (10:00, 10:05, etc). I use this for checking things like Published on an Entry or Banned on a user so that the query will cache better.

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Re: Hanselminutes on 9 - ASP.NET MVC 3 and NEW ASP.NET Futures with Phil Haack and Morgan the Intern

Sampy — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:30:13 GMT

I can't wait to move to this.

I'm going to get to delete so much code.

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Re: A screenshot tour of the new Channel 9

Sampy — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:24:12 GMT

Where do you mostly run into this content in other languages? My guess is the Related Videos and What you are watching sidebar boxes.

I'll see if I can get a fix in to have related only show things in the same language as the current video (or at least English + current video's language).

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Re: A screenshot tour of the new Channel 9

Sampy — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:22:13 GMT

We still have the user CSS feature so you can change it if you want

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Re: TWC9: The First Look at the New Channel 9!

Sampy — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:18:38 GMT

memcached. I'll talk on Monday about how I do elastic scaling of the cache nodes. It's pretty well known stuff but it integrates well with Azure.

But the cache model is fully abstracted from the rest of the code. In fact, in dev it uses the ASP.Net cache and swaps to memcached in production. If we ever wanted to change to AppFabric, it wouldn't be very hard.

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Re: A screenshot tour of the new Channel 9

Sampy — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:57:52 GMT

As in on your Xbox? Yeah, that's not really up to us I don't think that kind of integration is possible.

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Re: TWC9: The First Look at the New Channel 9!

Sampy — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:51:56 GMT

Only comments have no paging. Forum threads still page.

I'll talk about this more in Monday's video but the forums are completely separate from the comments on an entry.

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Re: TWC9: Silverlight 4, SQL Server R2 & Ent Library 5.0 all RTM, Why code comments aren't bad

Sampy — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:21:02 GMT

I don't write comments pretty much ever. When I TDD (which I do for everything these days), I don't need them. What I was thinking and what I meant for the code to do is much better expressed through good names, solid patterns, and great tests. I can even read the tests sequentially and watch the class evolve. Ditch those comments and up your code reading skills! It makes you a much better developer.

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Re: 10-4 Episode 22: Simplifying Data-Driven Web Applications

Sampy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:39:15 GMT

Buddy classes make me cry.

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Re: Shawn Farkas: CLR 4 - Inside the new Managed Security Model

Sampy — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:42:16 GMT

Hey, we interned at the same time and started here in the same year!

I thought he looked familiar...

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Re: The History of Microsoft - 1981

Sampy — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:53:23 GMT

Me too

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Re: Ori Amiga: Mesh Mobile

Sampy — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:57:14 GMT

https://www.mesh.com/web/developer.aspx

Mesh apps are part of the Live Services SDK.

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Re: Saqib Shaikh and Scott Hanselman: Designing for Accessibility

Sampy — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:24:41 GMT

Looks like it uses UI Automation

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Re: Gabor Ratky and Attila Kisko: AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft

Sampy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:47:16 GMT

I'm totally grabbing v2 when I get home.

I need to finish my new totem set mod

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Re: Bill Gates: Transitioning into the Future

Sampy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:43:18 GMT

Actually I talked to Charles and he told me it was [beep].

I checked it out on an internal site (http://[beep]) and I think I can say that [beep] is totally [beep]ing awesome

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Re: Dev Diary for April 15th

Sampy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:19:10 GMT

grassBlade wrote:

Sampy wrote:

When v4 launches, sign in with your forms password and then add the desired Live ID just like I showed in the video.

Yesterday, I did just that and saw the "Profile" option for the first time.

Since then....nada.

Is it possibly because I login automatically when I go to the site through the feeds links?

In other words, how do I get the "Profile" option back?

The code I showed in the video isn't live yet so you can't actually try it

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Re: Dev Diary for April 15th

Sampy — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:14:36 GMT

staceyw wrote:

Thanks.

Is there a way to change your existing live id to a different live id - if you prefer another and keep your same c9 profile and history?

TIA

When v4 launches, sign in with your forms password and then add the desired Live ID just like I showed in the video.

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Re: Dev Diary for April 15th

Sampy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:34:12 GMT

When you open the reply editor, it doesn't take you to a new page and it doesn't disable the EntryList above. You can page through the entire thread with out having to leave the page. Sure you can only target your reply at a single post but you can see all of them.

I think a wiki demo may be in order for this week's video.

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Re: Dev Diary for April 15th

Sampy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:56:34 GMT

Just to echo and confirm what others have said, you can get a LiveID with any email address now.

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Re: Welcome Dan Fernandez to the Channel 9 Team!

Sampy — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:06:53 GMT

My secret plot to write WoW addons at work is slowly coming together...

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Re: Bill's Last Day: The CES Keynote video

Sampy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:58:48 GMT

Fun stuff

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Re: Building a Silverlight player for Channel 9

Sampy — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:37:12 GMT

Honestly, I had no idea Full Screen was even available on this player.

I'll get that in there on our next update.

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Re: Building a Silverlight player for Channel 9

Sampy — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:20:39 GMT

Please post all error reports in this thread:

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=344306

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