i don't want to have to wait to download the whole (~1GB) video just to start watching it.

i don't want to switch to full screen just to be able to read the text on the presenter's screen.

the streaming video as it is (see below) is useless. useless. you might as well not bother including it. these videos are technical. if we can't read the text on there, we may as well have our eyes closed.

here's a random HD screencast on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOPM3jFo-qQ&hd=1&t=6m1s, it's 1280x720, 15fps, ~220kbps H.264, and it looks great - you can even read the tooltip and solution explorer text.

maybe you guys should just upload all the high-quality MP4s to youtube and post the links?

it says "The video is not loading properly, this is a temporary problem...."

it's not so temporary, apparently. eventually it says "The video is not available at this time. Retry."

I'm not sure what happened. I was watching the live stream (although delayed by several hours) just fine and then it stopped.

This has happened at several events previously (PDC and build, I think) where there has been a seekable live stream that was taken down before the session videos were available. Please don't do this

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2012/DEV414

please fix DEV414.

i just want to be able to make the player a little bigger (and clearer) so I can read the text.

is there any way to force the HD version without going fullscreen?

i don't want to have to download MP4s in order to be able to read what's on the presenters' screens.

please do the following:

1) provide higher resolution versions of the smooth streaming feeds.

2) make the player sensitive to its zoomed size so it automatically switches to the appropriate version.

3) provide zooming UI (like YouTube's size toggle)

4) add a pop-out button to show the player in its own window with no surrounding UI (pause the player on the page when this one's visible, sync timelines when it's closed).

5) tie a little tag to the end of your DVI cables in the studio that reads "increase your font size!!"

45 minutes ago,PerfectPhase wrote

No @ch9live I'm distraught

ok, that does it, i'm switching to iOS development...

oh, wait, objective-C? really?

exoteric said:

Unnullability a la

    public struct Unnullable<T> where T : class
    {
        public Unnullable(T x)
        {
            if (x == null)
                throw new NullReferenceException();
            item = x;
        }
        public T Item
        {
            get
            {
                return item;
            }
        }
        private readonly T item;
    }

and used as such

    class Foo
    {
        int Bar = 3;
    }
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var ufoo = new Unnullable<Foo>(new Foo());
            Console.WriteLine(ufoo.Item);
            Unnullable<Foo> baz; // error
            Unnullable<Foo> bax = null; // error
            Unnullable<Foo> box = (Foo)null; // error
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }

with built-in compiler support so we can simply write

var ufoo = new Foo!(); // type of ufoo is Foo! => Unnullable<Foo> 
Console.WriteLine(ufoo.bar);

Even without compiler support it will help catch nullness errors because in this case the compiler just translates ! to Unnullable - a kind of dual of ? which translates to Nullable. And with compiler support you may not even need to explicitly implement as Unnullable<T> although it will probably make the implementation easier.

 

And of course unnullable classes - where by default the class is unnullable.

mod up Unnullablfe<T> (although I'd prefer NonNullable<T>). It should be usable in all places types are usable today and the framework should make full use of it. This would obviously require a CLR rev. Languages that support it should mark their assemblies appropriately, those that don't have the implicit casts/expections added for them by the jit.