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Old 09-05-2008, 09:24 PM   #2
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Re: Final Notepad, Better than Wordpad, fast easy and reliable!
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Originally Posted by magneum View Post
NEW Features:
  • Login System
  • Application Manager/Downloader
  • Scripting System (Run your own code to make notepad even better!)
  • Comes with 5 new applications!
  • New help system!
  • 20 New Fonts
Old Features:
  • Insert/Edit Pictures
  • Email
  • Clock
  • Print
We are not giving out the source code as some of our features give away valuable information about our internet server (passwords and ways to crack into it). However the source for up to V.2 is available. Please try our notepad and post a reply telling me how good it is.




You can upload applications here for others to download to their notepad.
The lack of source code didn't stop me, and here's my opinion:
  • Good
    • Using encryption (although whether you're using it properly or not has yet to be determined)
    • You're handling error conditions with a Try/Catch block (although I could be wrong and it's only the compiler putting them in for you).
  • Bad
    • You're not using exception handlers for their intended purpose. You could have used other means to determine if a password was incorrect, rather than letting an exception be thrown. An exception is just what its name implies: it happens in exceptional conditions! Somebody mistyping a password certainly isn't exceptional…
    • The login system is pointless since it makes the application harder to use. Windows already makes the user log in, and if a user is able to use you're program, you should assume he or she has the proper credentials to view the information. You could however, transparently encrypt the user's data without asking for a password using the Windows user key. Check out the .NET Framework's DPAPI (Data Protection Application Programming Interface) provided through the classes ProtectedData and ProtectedMemory in the System.Security.Cryptography namespace.
    • Bundling a word processor and a browser doesn't really make sense…
That's what I could determine by skimming your program code quickly. Your program, however, never ran; it crashed on startup, so I never got to see it in action.
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