I have a feeling that there will be lots of exciting new stuff to watch.

Kinnect be HD? Not sure what you are asking when Kinnect games are HD. As for the camera itself, it is pointless going into HD. Kinnect already can track eye brows, so, IMO, it is already HD enough.

The Kinect camera uses only one fourth of it's resolution and it is a very poor resolution if you ever tried VideoKinect. The resolution is reduced to make sure that the USB bandwidth is not used up completely by Kinnect. By using USB3 it should be possible to have a HD camera and still have enough bandwidth for other devices. But a higher resolution also requires more processing power for the body tracking. So it is a trade-off.

Will it be without a DVD/Blu-ray drive? Download all content from Xbox Live?

Will it be with 3D support?

Will it have a SSD drive (no moving parts - besides cooling)

Will it have USB 3 so that Kinect can use all the bandwidth that it needs for better quality of the cameras?

Will Kinect be included in the launch setup?

Will Kinect be HD?

Will Kinect use a wide angle lens, so that you don't need a large free space to play (two people at a time)?

Will Xbox V.Next rock?

Speculation can begin now!

I might disagree with the ideas made in the video, but it is quite funny....

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdwk35_dylin-prestly-microsoft-net-vs-java_tech

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/02/05/asp-net-mvc-2-release-candidate-2-now-available.aspx 

How long is shortly? As far as I recall Microsoft has often released Betas and RCs of Visual Studio on fridays.

blowdart said:

Ion Todirel said:

*snip*

When you have a problem and think "I know I'll use regular expressions" you now have two problems

Maddus Mattus said:

.Net rules!

Wooohooooo!!!

DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!

Microsoft has the best developing platform in the world with .Net!

I need to lay of the coffee,..

We should team up and create a .NET appreciation day – just like “Talk like a pirate day”…

I started to code the solution in VS2008, the first problem is that the site demanded forms authentication so I sent a post to the page with the data that the form needed to logon. WebException occurred! It turned out that the System.Net.WebClient refuses to connect to a site where the certificate has expired – Google code and 5 minutes later I had the solution. Now I was able to download the web page that contains the links to the different files that was available. I used a regular expression to find the anchors in the html document and I downloaded the latest file.

It took me about an hour to solve my colleague’s problem and I didn’t know much about System.Net.WebClient when I started out. Microsoft .NET made it so simple to solve this problem quickly – I love .NET!

corona_coder said:

Minh said:

*snip*

McCain will win this election.  His speeh the other night, flawless and to the point.  It was one of those speeches that was on par with the Gettysburg address.  It was an event worthy of THE PRESIDENT.  I have no doubt in my mind that President McCain and Vice President Palin will utterly destroy Obama.  Obama will destroy this country if he gets in.  McCain has and will always be my 1st choice for president.

Obama is like Microsoft, a sinking ship and Obama will lose.  Russia and everyone who would oppress and torture innocents are put on notice.  I even think the FSF and RMS himself are endorsing McCain.

mawcc wrote:

I really hope that we get to know more today. At least a timeframe for RTM availablility for MSDN subscribers.

I'm a little bit annoyed that such a big secret is made of the estimated RTM date of VS 2008, even though a lot of people currently using Beta 2 would benefit from beeing able to plan their switch to RTM accordingly. Requests for more details on Scott Guthrie's blog have been left unanswered so far.

JChung2006 wrote:



Klaus Enevoldsen wrote: Would it be possible to render the controls in XP and use the native ones in Vista?

Microsoft went down the "render the controls in legacy OS" route before with the VB runtime libraries several years ago.  It was unpleasant.  I remember ListView and TreeView columns looking and working like crap (redundant borders, column resizing behaviors broken, etc).  For a more recent example, I recall a Niner (Rossj, I think?) expressing displeasure with the pain that ugly WPF rendering in XP was causing him.

I think they're looking forward, not backward. Maybe we'll see Vista-style controls in the next version of the .NET framework a few years from now (Windows 7 timeframe). That version probably won't be required to support XP.

JChung2006 wrote:



Vista controls are available to Win32 programmers.  The problem with including Vista controls with a .NET framework release is that the framework has to run on operating systems other than Windows Vista, namely Windows XP.

Klaus Enevoldsen wrote:



blowdart wrote:  Sabot wrote: As a consequence they have been actively re-writting old VB6 applications in C# on the back of 'VB6 is going out of support soon and we can't have applications unsupported' as the justification for the last two years and now with the management team it's an ingrained policy. My previous company also actively promoted migrating away from VB6 as well. 1) Migrating from VB makes business sense because of the unsupported issue. 2) I've mentored VB developers through migrations and I almost always recommend C#. Why? Because a complete switch in language gives people a bigger kick to think in .net terms. I've seen people treat VB.NET as, well, VB. Big static objects named Util to replace a module. It's not pretty; the paradigm shift invovled with thinking in a new language does, in my experience, make for a better (if longer) migration/learning process.

What you are talking about is the difference between good and bad developers. I guess there are good and bad C# developers also.

It is just as likely that you create bad code in C# as in VB7+.

It is amazing how many developers that cannot seperate eg. the GUI from the rest of the code.

blowdart wrote:



Sabot wrote: As a consequence they have been actively re-writting old VB6 applications in C# on the back of 'VB6 is going out of support soon and we can't have applications unsupported' as the justification for the last two years and now with the management team it's an ingrained policy. My previous company also actively promoted migrating away from VB6 as well.

1) Migrating from VB makes business sense because of the unsupported issue.
2) I've mentored VB developers through migrations and I almost always recommend C#. Why? Because a complete switch in language gives people a bigger kick to think in .net terms. I've seen people treat VB.NET as, well, VB. Big static objects named Util to replace a module. It's not pretty; the paradigm shift invovled with thinking in a new language does, in my experience, make for a better (if longer) migration/learning process.

I want to follow those guidelines!

But I can’t!

Because the controls that are used in Vista are not a part of the .NET framework. I could create the controls myself, but I like RAD and making a lot of user controls to follow the guidelines is not RAD.

I guess I could buy the controls from a third part company. But I don’t want to!

This is what I want:

1)      When Microsoft releases a new OS with new guidelines, all ordinary controls that they use should be included in the .NET framework delivered with the OS.

2)      When Microsoft releases a new version of Office I want the controls that they use (so that when I create applications that interact with Office, I can create a consistent UI that follow that written in the UX guide).

3)      Faster delivery of the Guidelines when the OS is released (the UX guidelines is not yet completed and Vista is almost a year old).

Any feedback?

That's it and that's that! To say that professional devs only use C# is a big mistake!

irascian wrote:

... if so. How the **** do you purchase an upgrade?

Tried Telligent's online "email me upgrade price" option. Twice. Not a thing.

Tried their "Contact us" form and asked why they weren't replying and could I please have a quote (I paid for free upgrades for a year but the year expired before I got around to downloading the 2007 release).

One week later still no reply (and yes, I've checked my junk mail folder).

What a way to run a business.

Time to just get on and write my own stuff I guess!

PaoloM wrote:



As some of you guys may have vaguely suspected, I'm working on the successor to Vista.

I cannot tell you what the plans are (and trust me, I'd sooo like to ) but you are all -in part- right. Vista is the end of something, but it is also the beginning of something else.

Uhm, let's hope this won't get me in trouble

Chadk wrote:

Yes, cops are always very cool here in Denmark.  Drunk (I need to watch my language)s can insult them very badly, and they wouldnt care.In fact, drawing out a weapon(Did they pull out their guns in this case where you got caught speeding?) is rare. Shooting is reason to get fired unless you were about to die.   

And yes. You can get arrested for insulting. But in most cases, cops dont do this.