Except that the Windows 8 Store is based on WinRT, a completely new framework delivered in the operating system. It allows for full screen touch capable apps that take advantage of modern hardware and run on x86/x64 and ARM processors. Those apps are presented on an entire new layer. Now, how is that comparable with any online store?

that's like comparing the iPhone Store with one of the first Java capable Nokia's and claiming they could be the same.

Windows 8 is great in that it finally gives developers a stage to sell their apps/games. I have been involved with two apps on the Store at the moment. One is my game Game Dev Tycoon[^] and the other a mind mapping app called NovaMind[^]. We've just hit ten thousand downloads on Game Dev Tycoon. This is our first game. We are a new company. I think that potential exposure alone will see a new wave of apps and games and ultimately Windows 8 is targeted at consumers so if consumers are able to get apps that they like Windows 8 will do great.

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If you don't like brackets, refactor the nested loop into another method. The way I see it you just WANT to use goto's even though you know that 'most other people' (TM) would prefer the equally valid version without goto's. Personally it upsets me that people use language features for no good reason. 'I don't like brackets' is not a good reason at all. Code with a goto is always harder to decipher than code without.

EliottA wrote:

cry me a river its -21 here!

should be cry me an icicle! in that case! anyhow... it has +30 here :-)

Once I had something similar except in C# (can't remember if it was 1.1 or 2.0) - as you might know VS normally throws an error when you try to do that. I had a conditional break point where I forgot the second = sign in the condition and to my surprise the condition was actually executed and VS did not give an error. Only discovered it when I saw that the integer variable suddenly changed value when stepping over a line that had absolutely nothing to do with the variable (but had a conditional breakpoint)... edit: as a result of that experience I don't use conditional break points all that much :-D anymore

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

Guess who was dinged in a performance review? (me)

unbelievable... some people...

disappointing... it still says 'ctrl', 'esc' etc. probably even 'home' and 'end' but I can't make it out on the picture... and the clingon logo instead of the windows key would be nice as well.

I am currently working on a custom layout engine that has to deal with lots of polygons and take relative coordinates as well as rotations of certain items of a list of polygons into account. I have been hunting a(nother) bug for a couple of hours now and I have to say that this whole thing is the most frustrating piece I have ever worked on. On the other side, it is also one of the most exciting things I have worked on but it is certainly slowly killing me. What is the most frustrating debug experience/project/bug you ever had to deal with?

modified on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:58 PM

yea, but they are talking about creating a native executable that does not depend on the .NET Framework which I have not heard of before.

1. but also with a link from the old one to the new one

Here I am searching for a good obfuscation product and suddenly I stumble upon http://www.xenocode.com[^]. Apparently they can generate a native executable from any .NET application (up to .NET 3.5)... A bit more searching reveals Remotesoft .NET Linker[^] which seems to be doing something similar. Has anyone used any of these or similar products? I didn't even know that this is possible.

blackfin wrote:

PS: If its a Celine Dion song you deserve to BE on the death-row.

but it would be an effective choice... takes away all the fear of the imminent execution.

The Commonwealth bank in Australia has a great offer at the moment were you get 20$ per month (for a full year) to spend on bandit.fm if you sign up for a new debit mastercard...(and 20% of every purchase on bandit.fm if you use a Commonwealth account) - bandit.fm doesn't have a huge catalog at the moment but it looks pretty good.. great quality (320- better than iTunes) and DRM free

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Christian Graus wrote:

Did I mention I have 10 gig of RAM on my Mac Pro ?

what do you use it for? As far as I can remember Parallels did only support 1.5 GB for the Windows installation and only one cpu, which is frustrating when you have a nice dual quad-core Mac Pro... Has this changed? Can you now share more RAM and use more cores using Parallels? Do you use 64bit Windows using Parallels? I use a dual quad-core Mac Pro with 8GB RAM but have decided to use bootcamp so I can run Vista 64 bit... I never boot in Mac OS. EDIT: Mac Pro is a really nice machine except that I don't understand why a 6000AUD+ machine does not have a audio in port :confused: And I hate that you can't use a RAID setup with bootcamp...

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modified on Monday, November 17, 2008 9:07 PM

Sounds like a plan! Thanks!

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so, are you using the default installer, or do you use a third party setup software?

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Just spamming here... But I think the rant I just posted on the Microsoft Forum has some substance: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxsetup/thread/ef061340-9ddc-4219-8663-64d1448581e0[^]

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If you can give me a small ready-to-run sample I might be able to help you. We have lots of Winforms/Wpf interaction and I remember that it was quite a challenge to get the focus right. You might want to try to set the focus to your element via a dispatcher like so: Dispatcher.Invoke(new Action(() => Focus()), System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority.Background); this might also help: http://geekswithblogs.net/rakker/archive/2007/07/27/114232.aspx[^]

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I am inclined to say that "iTunes is an unresponsive piece of shit" but that would be rude. it's just software.... from apple... on windows... vista

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