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19 minutes ago, Dr Herbie wrote

You will be able to trade and re-sell games (but I expect only through the XBox system).

 

Sounds like an anti-competitive practice to me. 

Also, an Internet connection isn't required to play games, but it has to be connected to the Internet once a day to check in to work?  What if my internet is out longer than a day (which happens more than you'd think, *cough* Comcast)?  Hell, what if I go on vacation, take the Xbox with me and want to use it and I don't have internet there (frequently happens)?  Talk about an obnoxious step back. 

I'm going to wait to see how that feature really plays out.  I want an Xbox, but I don't want to support these business practices and that maybe where I just end up playing games on my last generation console or choose a different console all together.

I do like the voice recognition with the television. 

Whereas I have not been a fan of "snap" on the desktop, I do see it as much more compelling feature here in an interface where there isn't a mouse and keyboard to really fine tune sizes and placement.  It's very Windows 8 so far with the apps.  IMO, the ESPN app on Windows 8 has been kind of jank (it crashes, it stops working, it's slow)... but the way they're intermixing TV with online content in this demo is pretty sweet if it really works like that in practice.  I'm excited about that feature (to see someone do it well).

15 minutes ago, PopeDai wrote

I've heard rumors the name might be "Xbox 8":

Xbox 1 it is.  It looked like the hardware just said "Xbox" on the outside.

2 hours ago, Hometoy wrote

@evildictaitor: Ok, my stupidity is starting to leak. Where can I learn the better way _now_, and try to plug my leaks?  Some starting point please.

In terms of SQL injection, you should at a minimum use a parameterized command if you're putting input into the SQL from a web-page/query string/form post, etc. (i.e. you put the variable into your sql statement and then use the parameters collection on the command to set the values for those variables).  This will help protect you in most cases if it's used correctly. Here's a basic example:

http://www.dotnetperls.com/sqlparameter

I used to hate Clippy but now that he's being rendered through an obscure JavaScript library he has a hipster edge to him.

3 hours ago, spivonious wrote

@Cybermagellan: Yeah, Web Forms makes things a lot harder than they need to be. Try to approach things from a WinForms perspective and it might make more sense.

That's kind of broad.  It makes some things harder but a lot of things are pretty straightforward.

3 hours ago, Cybermagell​an wrote

(isPost), what is that?

I assume you mean IsPostBack?  IsPostBack will be False if it's your initial visit to the page (no post back has occurred) and it will be True if it is a PostBack (meaning that some event on the page triggered a server side postback).  E.g. You click a asp.net button and it fires the button's click event on the server. 

In WinForms, the form would fire the Load event when it was first loaded so you knew that was the initial entrance to the form (it shouldn't be called again unless a new instance is created or it's manually called).  In WebForms, Load is fired everytime a postback occurs so this variable allows you to determine if it's the initial entrance to the page.

In short, no, they are not at risk for that reason for the above reason.  If anything, these tools are the ones losing out because of the shear quantity of Windows base, the potential for growth is higher.  There are always going to be platform specific tools, always have been, always will be. 

5 hours ago, cheong wrote

@jinx101:We're talking about VS2013 here right?

I'd rather have it using normal casing on default and have to tweak registry to change to ALL UPCASE.

ALL UPCASE is plain ugly and don't get applause from user. This will harm first image. Get it?

I get it, I prefer the same thing.

54 minutes ago, Ian2 wrote

IMO the start menu should come back but the (legacy) start menu should be an option that can be turned off

I agree.  I think that would be a reasonable approach. 

The caps are a non issue in practice because there are add-ons that fix the registry setting so you don't even have to go into it (choice, is good, it works like you want it to then, no harm no foul). 

In the bigger picture, I liken it to a metaphor for many of the other design choices I'm not a fan of (I won't go into detail, they've been exhausted elsewhere).