I am curious as to if XNA includes any sort of text input support?  I need to make a "Name:--------" type entry box on my create character screen, and I wanted to avoid hand making an inputbox class if it was at all possible, since I am only going to be taking on user text input this one time outside of the games controls.  I wanted the typical blinking cursor and letter by letter text input.

It shouldn't be a problem to make on my own, but yeah, if anyone knows of a function that does this for me in C# or XNA, let me know !

Well, they would be able to ply it if the downloaded GFWL right?  I am pretty new to all of this...  I think that I will just use system.text and write my own inputbox class for reuse.

I had heard that for my friends to play my game they would need to DL some special XNA thing anyways?  Is this not true?  I am not looking to become famous or make a ton of money, I just wanted to make a few games as a lifelong gamer that has some good ideas for a fun game or two.