Anith Gopal

Hello All, with the wave of social media well and truly upon us, it’s time to get signed up to a few groups…optional of course, but who knows what you might miss if you’re not there (as my dad says, “you’ve got to be in it to win it”…and I never argue with my dad!) So a few options, which I would clearly encourage you to use and abuse, inline with your own penchant for your social media fix: Check out The Edge blog Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/MSFTDynamicsERP . Join our LinkedIn Group

A colleague pointed me to a recent blog post that shows a new way to learn about Visual Studio 2010 test tools.  Brian Keller is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist for Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management.  He created an interactive tool that enables someone to quickly go from an overview of Visual Studio 2010 test / build / lab management capabilities down to a detailed video demonstrating a concept.  It is really cool.  The tool uses Microsoft Deep Zoom and Microsoft Silverlight.  From the Deep Zoom site : Deep Zoom provides the ability to interactively view high-resolution images. You can zoom in and out of images rapidly without affecting the performance of your application.

The HealthVault Application Configuration Center is available at https://config.healthvault-ppe.com .  You login to this tool with a HealthVault-PPE account and it will show you a list of ApplicationIds for which you have admin rights.  Generally you will see zero or one ApplicationIds in this list.  Here is the home screen that I see with one of my Microsoft accounts: There are three ways for an application to get onto your list: Create AppId in Application Manager client: when Application Manager uploads your ApplicationId information to the HealthVault-PPE platform, you will be prompted to login to the Application Configuration Center.  The account with which you login will become the admin account for this AppId. Create AppId in Application Configuration Center: there is a “Create a new application” link in the screenshot above.  If you use that link to create an AppId then the currently-logged-in account will be the admin for that AppId. Submit a request: if you don’t remember which account is your admin account, if you lost credentials to an admin account or if your ApplicationId was created before the existence of the Application Configuration Center then you can “reclaim” admin rights to your AppId by clicking the “submit a request” link on this page.  You will see the dialog box below.  Enter the AppId that you want to reclaim and the email address where you would like to receive the reclaim invitation.  A Microsoft person will review your request and verify that it is coming from a company that is associated with the application, then they will send the invitation mail to the specified email address

Here’s a ‘Thank You’ to all our customers and partners, for creating a Windows Azure platform AppFabric commercial account. The trust you have placed in the Windows Azure platform is tremendously appreciated. As you may remember from our previous announcement , AppFabric will become fully SLA-supported in April, and your account will begin to accrue charges.

Foi no arranque da maior feira mundial de comunicações, o Mobile World Congress, 15 de Fevereiro, em Barcelona, que a Microsoft anunciou os Windows Phones série 7 (WP7).