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For a third year in a row DevReach 2008 is going to be the most popular, technical and fun conference to attend. The line up of speakers is just outstanding and I am not going to name them here since I have to write them all :). Check out the speakers and sessions pages. There are total of 40 sessions divided in 4 tracks: Presentation, Business, Data and 'Architecture and Practices'. Do not miss the fun and of course the opportunity to learn from world's best speakers. Register now and save 20% until 15^th September for only 80 euro.

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# posted by Martin Kulov @ 5:03 PM |

Source code of parts of the .NET Framework will be released to the public for debugging purposes. ScottGu is giving much details in his blog.
The license does not allow to copy and recompile the framework. The release will include the Base Class Libraries (BCL), Windows Forms, ASP.NET, System.Data, and WPF. In future more libraries will be added.
The source code debugging will be only available for Visual Studio 2008 users, which will be eventually ready in about 2-3 months!

I must say that when I wrote my first program on .NET back in 2000 one of the very first things I did is to hit F11 and step into the method call. I was comming from C++/ATL/COM/MFC world and I could not even imagine that stepping into would not be possible for .NET. Congrats Microsoft for this cool feature! It was about a time :)

Thanks goes to Eileen for spreading the news!

This news is so hot that I couldn't even write about how extremely well DevReach 2007 go. Just a few hits before I write my report - red tops, red tops and ... red tops.

Labels: .NET, DevReach

# posted by Martin Kulov @ 12:02 AM |

For those how made it to register – thanks for all your support! I am very happy to see that our work is helping you grow as professional software developer. With even more sessions and speakers than last year, we are now raising the bar higher for DevReach 2008. I hope you enjoy DevReach 2007 and will wait for your feedback.
See you on Monday.

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# posted by Martin Kulov @ 12:35 PM |

Tim Huckaby is going to show Heart Surger WPF / MOSS application called Angiographer for may be second first time in the world only during his keynote for DevReach 2007. It is designed to allow doctors to document the diagnosis and intervention process during an angiography procedure.


If you haven't registered for DevReach 2007, there is still chance to do this. Go to Registration page and look at the available discounts.
There is 20% discount for students and teachers!
All attendees will have a chance to win 7MP digital camera or Microsoft Zune. Go to DevReach blog to find more about the prizes.
Hurry up - there are only 57 seats available left!

Here is Tim Huckaby detailed keynote information:

The IHC Angiographer
The Intermountain Healthcare catheter angiography annotation application (aka Angiographer) is designed to allow doctors to document the diagnosis and intervention process during an angiography procedure. The minimally invasive test involves inserting a catheter through the femoral artery into the heart. A contrast material is introduced into the bloodstream to clearly delineate the coronary arterial structure when exposed to x-rays. A number of animated images are retrieved from various camera orientations. The diagnostic portion consists of graphing the patient’s arterial pathways including any blockage or lesions. The intervention portion includes optionally placing stents in arteries to ensure continued blood flow. Currently, doctors are required to document this procedure using pen and paper on a flat schematic diagram.

The Angiographer application developed by InterKnowlogy addresses the inherent limitations of a traditional pen and paper approach by presenting the doctor with an interactive pen based display containing a three dimensional model of a heart and coronary arteries. Since each patient has a slightly different geometry to their coronary pathways, the doctor begins by using intuitive stylus-based gestures to modify a statistically average arterial template. X-ray images are presented in thumbnail form on a panel in the main application window. Clicking on an x-ray animates the orientation of the 3D heart model to align the model with the position and angle of the camera. This enhanced workflow provides a significant reduction to the overall duration and cost of the procedure. Once the basic structure has been laid out, the doctor can then annotate areas of blockage (lesions) using simple drawing tools and contextual pop-up diagnostic tools. Finally, the placement and result of intervention techniques such as stents can easily be marked on the three dimensional arterial structure.

Angiographer is built on the Windows Presentation Foundation and leverages the managed 3D functionality to animate the heart as well as the built-in tablet/ink integration to build gesture recognition features. Coronary arteries are rendered as actual three dimensional spline extrusions as the user moves the stylus across the surface of the heart. Despite containing well over fifty thousand triangles, the heart models rotates smoothly even on average graphics processors. Angiographer also makes extensive use of WPF’s vector graphics engine and control styling to create an unique immersive interface that is simple to use yet still visually compelling.

Labels: DevReach

# posted by Martin Kulov @ 3:47 AM |

DevReach 2007 is now open for registration. Last year DevReach had a huge success, being the first one to gather all international speaker stars in Microsoft community.

Following the example, DevReach 2007 now has 40 sessions in 4 tracks with more than 15 international speakers coming from everywhere in the world.

The key note will be presented by Tim Huckaby, Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California. He will present a surgery application written in WCF. Make sure you do not miss that. I only saw one screenshot but it looked astonishing.
DevReach 2007 will also cover latest betas from Microsoft like SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 and future releases like Rosario – the next version of Visual Studio after VS 2008.

Other topics cover things like building scalable ASP.NET applications, Silverlight, LINQ and more practical sessions about usability and team work.

The event is brought to you by kulov.net and telerik.

Register now to save 20%.

Meet you there.

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# posted by Martin Kulov @ 4:58 AM |