I return 404s when there is no content found in my APIs

We were just recently added to the Flash white list for IE 10 non-Desktop. There's a chance that if your machine doesn't have that most up to date list, it's not letting our fall back Flash player load since it thinks that Channel 9 isn't allowed to use Flash content. We're looking at some ways to check  your version of the list or how to get it to update. One method that worked for Duncan was to go to another site that's on the white list (in this case new Star Wars owners Disney) and then come back to Channel 9.

To answer the question in general, it's tricky for us to go to an account and see what the email address of the Microsoft Account (as we call it these days) is. We intentionally store that data in a way that protects your privacy but also makes it tricky to reverse engineer like that. There are things we can do, however, but they require more info from you hence the request for an email.

30 minutes ago, PaoloM wrote

*snip*

You mean, mean, mean person you

I'm in your sky, taking it from you

It adds triggers to tables which causes the row count from Insert/Update statements issued by NHibernate to be greater than one. NHibernate throws an error in this case since it only expected to touch one row and rolls back the transaction. There's a setting to turn off that protection but I can't remember if it's in version 2 of NH or you have to move to 3. Also, I don't want to give up the protection

Also, while syncing would prevent the site from taking a perf hit, it would still show you my schema and I don't really want to do that. The beauty of RSS or ATOM is that it's a static format that we both communicate on. OData would tie both of us together into a schema (the XML blob in the <content> tag) that I now have to support. It's not something I'm against but it's not something I want to walk into without really thinking about it. I'm also worried that Entity Framework couldn't handle the way our database is organized because I use a lot of NH specific features that I don't think EF can handle (any mappings mostly). I could take the middle ground and build one of those metadata based providers but I still don't like that route.

I've toyed with manually implementing the OData protocol (pushing the XML to you myself). It's not that hard. No matter how I implemented it, I would limit the kinds of query operators you could use just like Azure Table Storage does since I like the fact that I control the shape of all the queries done against the database. It forces all code to work against my model and not against my physical database store. If we moved pieces of the data to Table Storage or did something else wacky then the model (entity objects + queries + services) would remain consistent while their implementations would change. Those query objects give me a great list of all the ways that the site needs to bend and shape the data which is a huge boon when building indexes, weighing new features, or even considering some of the wacky back end changes I mentioned above.

Long story: it's a big feature that has to fight other features for space on the schedule. We have talked about adding some of the paging query strings to RSS feeds so you can ask for page 2 and get all items in a list rather than just the top 20. A feed that uses the list extensions and gives you all shows/series/blogs is also an idea we've tossed around. These are much easier to do but still have to fight for schedule time. Use Connect to let us know which ones you like.

52 minutes ago, magicalclick wrote

Sounds good. Although he doesn't know how to use "back", which is one of the 3 and only 3 physical buttons on the phone.

On the front. I'm pretty sure there are some physical buttons on the side (camera and a "show me the music controls" button that Zune HD has). Maybe volume too... I'll ask Clint.

1 hour ago, jeffsand wrote

The cake is in Sampy's office.

Not for long...

1 minute ago, raptor3676 wrote

Looks cool, congrats to C9 team... Great work!

Now I'm just waiting for the miriads of posts complaining about someone not finding something or that something else needing 2 clicks instead of 1, or some button being moved or having the incorrect color or whatever...

Raptor,

PS: Yes that was a rant against those IT/Dev pros that seems more like asperger's patients.

Premptive "two clicks to the Coffehouse" response: Pin us to your taskbar in IE9 and right click

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TommyCarlier said:

Is it the sixth time you have destroyed it?

I am in the mood for a new avatar/caption actually...

CKurt said:

Launching the preview?
Getting your WP7 device?
Playing with Kinect ?

 

Those are the top 3 I can think of

I actually played a bunch of Kinect on Monday. It's really fun. I'm surprisingly good at Dance Central.

WP7 devices are still a ways off I think though I have no idea for sure.