I doubt this will change your mind, since it seems so made up. But I saw a medical app this weekend that you will be able to see in about 3 months when it becomes a .net showcase app.

I was down in San Diego last weekend for a .net code camp. A company down there used an app they are developing for Scripps Institute to demonstrate their topic. The app reads in a text file created by their blood analysis software that maps out the blood molecules. Using Windows Presentation Foundation in C# they lay out the molecule in 3-D.

My understanding is that what makes this software special, is that the current state of the art for this type of software does not allow for any type of annotating the molecule. So the scientists who would be working on this would have numerous stickies all over their office with their notes. Of course this makes it next to impossible to share any of their research with other scientists.

With this software you are able to click on specific amino acids and other landmarks of the molecule and attach annotations.

This program is also run thru MS Sharepoint, so it is easy to make the diagram available to researchers thru out the world.

As explained by the developers, they are probably going to take a bath on this project, but it will be kind of cool when you are talking to other developers. When someone tells you how they just finished a project to automate Sam's Tire Shop, and you tell them how you developed the software they are using to help develop a cure for cancer, it's a major bragging point.


>First, VS2005 is a better product than VS2003. This may sound like an odd analogy, but VS2005 is to VS2003 as VFP5 was to VFP3
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>I don't remember being unable to open VFP3 apps in VFP5. ;-)
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>Of course dotNET continues to get easier- no doubt about that. Bring on some decent local file handling stuff and many here have already stated their intention to reassess. The heat has gone out of it. Look at this thread- the usual culprits burst in guffawing and trying to cause trouble, but they were ignored.