That was a neat machine that time, I had one of those :)

:laugh:

I think the same series is avilable on Channel9 : http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C-Sharp-Fundamentals-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners[^]

Actually I wrote: "Apple says, all its products are exclusive, so if you own an Apple product your in the elite" :) Maybe Apple puts it this way: from 6+ billion people, being in the ~10 million users of Apple products you must be exlcusive - if you look only at the numbers, they can say that.

Eddy Vluggen wrote:

"Hardware + design + software"? Don't make me laugh :)

The liking of something is a personal thing, either you like it, either not. With that line, I wanted to emphesize, that (IMHO) there is no other company which has a so unified (hardware + software) "environment" for users and Apple knows this. I'm curious why did you write don't make me laugh? Before you say anything I don't work for Apple :-D

I think despite of all the negative news which Apple received in the media, its brand is still a very powerful one. I think the Apple brand is so powerfull because Apple says, all its products are exclusive, so if you own an Apple product your in the elite, who can afford to be exclusive. We have to admit, their products are really good if you look at the whole (hardware + design + software). What do you think, why Apple's brand is so powerful?

OK, maybe I was not clear, lets have this example: DataTable 1: Column1, Column2, Column3 DataTable 2: Value1, Value2, Value3, Value4, Value5, Value6, Value7, Value8 The final result for you should be like below?

Column1, Column2, Column3
Value1, Value2, Value3
Value4, Value5, Value6
Value7, Value8

if the above representation is OK, its quite simple, you just have to: 1. Add to the new DataTable the content of the first DataTable 2. Add a new row to the new DataTable, start to add the values 3. When you reached the length of the first DataTable (or first row of the current DataTable) you need to start a new row.

Is there a way to identify how many items does the first column have? I can see that the P, Q, R values are for the second column, how would you know where to start splitting?

superselector wrote:

Col1 Col2 A P B Q C R D

I'm not impressed, the hardware changes are good and there is improvement, but WinRT is still there... :/

This is really great and it has a lot of truth in some points ;P

I'm also a .NET guy, but nowadays I see everyone shifting towards platform dependent technologies. For example I really like to use/code/hack under linux, but the .NET development is done under linux, so I have both OSes available. I know some PHP, but I'm not an expert. It would be interesting to learn Ruby, but just for fun and hacking around.

I have a question, why did you choose these 2 languages? What I see nowadays is that you have to choose the technology based on the direction you want to go towards. So, if you would like to go towards web development, both of these languages are OK to learn, but if you would like to make mobile apps, then these are not for you. If I would need to learn a new language I would choose JavaScript. In the past couple of years the support for JavaScript based technologies has increased a lot and now, you can create back-end and front-end using just JavaScript. I really think this is cool. In the old days there were back-end developers and front-end developers, each had their own languages but this tendency is really gone now...

I think the most widely used point for these situation is what you have proposed as 3rd option. Simply Mock your hardware specific assemblies (I don't know how hard that is), this way on a laptop you can test only your code and in the mocks implement whatever functionality you need assuming that "the hardware" works ok. When running the tests on the actual device you can simply remove the mock assemblies and you can also run your tests.