TechBubbles

Introduction

The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) provides a toolkit with controls which addresses wide range of patient safety concerns for Health Care Organizations all over the world. This tool kit allows the developers to build a new generation of Health Care Applications.

With Microsoft CUI you can

• Quickly and easily develop a Health Care Application
• Design guidance for developing the applications
• Develop applications in Visual Studio Environment

Microsoft developing all these controls using Windows Presentation Foundation and Silver light 2.0 technology.

Microsoft Demonstrated the Features of this controls by developing a patient journey application in NHS 2008 summit.

The following are some of the screen shots of the Application

• Dynamic Search and Results slider

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Introduction

The Microsoft Web Application Installer (Web AI) allows you to install Web applications for IIS from other sources. Web AI identifies available applications and the originating Web sites, and asks you to select the application that you want to install.

What does it do?

Web AI downloads the applications that you selected directly from the originating web sites and configures according to your instructions.

Web AI is the easiest way to install the freely available PHP and ASP.NET applications on the IIS Web server.

• Web AI provides support for popular ASP.NET and PHP Web Applications including Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and more.

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Microsoft announced that the successor to Windows Vista will be called Windows 7. Microsoft has set 2010 as release target for Windows 7.

Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Windows Product Management, explained:

"Over the years, we have taken different approaches to naming Windows. We’ve used version numbers like Windows 3.11, or dates like Windows 98, or "aspirational" monikers like Windows XP or Windows Vista. And since we do not ship new versions of Windows every year, using a date did not make sense. Likewise, coming up with an all-new "aspirational" name does not do justice to what we are trying to achieve, which is to stay firmly rooted in our aspirations for Windows Vista, while evolving and refining the substantial investments in platform technology in Windows Vista into the next generation of Windows."

Ultimately, Windows 7 is the seventh release of the operating system, "so therefore ‘Windows 7′ just makes sense," Nash writes.

Introduction

This post explains how synch provider communicates with a data source and retrieves information  from metadata store. Sync providers can communicate with other sync providers through a synch session.

You can read the basic understanding about synch framework at Microsoft Sync.

Data Source

is the place where all information will be stored that needs to be synchronized. It can be relational database, a file system, a web service. It is a key component in synchronization process.

Meta Data

Information about data store and objects in the data store  is called metadata and it can be stored anywhere that can be a file, a database.

Versions

Versions are maintained for each item that is being participated in the synchronization process. It records when and where an item has changed, and Itemid has associated with it. In case of database the item can be entire row in a table.

Implementing Versions

• Inline Tracking Change is recorded immediately as the change is made.Example Trigger can be used to update a change when a update action is occurred on the database table row.
• Asynchronous Tracking External process runs and scans for changes. updates found are added to the version information on a scheduled process.

Synchronization Flow

Conclusion

Microsoft sync framework to allow any data store to exchange information and enables conflict detection and allows the application or provider to effectively resolve conflicts.

Introduction

Microsoft Sync Framework is a platform which enables collaboration and offline access  among applications, services and devices. Using Sync Framework developers can build sync systems that can integrate any application with any data using any protocol over the network.

Key concept of Microsoft Sync Framework is creating synchronization provider which contains the repository of information to be synchronized. Provider applies changes to repository both at source and destination places. If the data at the source and destination differ in type or schema provider performs necessary mapping or transformation.

Providers in Microsoft Sync

• Sync Services for ADO.NET- for ADO.NET enabled data sources
• Sync Services for File Systems – for files and folders
• Sync Services for FeedSync- for RSS and ATOM feeds

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What is Photosynth?

Photosynth is a technology from  Microsoft which takes the collection of pictures of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a three-dimensional space.

Features

• You can see the photo from any angle.
• Seamlessly Zoom in or Zoom out capability.
• You can send collection of views of pictures to friends.
• You can find similar pictures that you are viewing.

3D View with Photosynth

• Photosynth provides an interface to view any object in a
  picture.
• It provides easy controls for exploring a collection of
  photos in 3D with single click.

• Future versions of Photosynth, you’ ill be able to see your
  own photographs displayed in 3D.
• Smooth digital rendering  and zoom capabilities.

Photosynth future

• It could make your photos more smarter!!!
• It Begins by processing an image and creates a point to
  uniquely identify the image. Once you get an image then it
  could show you other photos that have similar features to the
  one you’re currently viewing.
• Tags, URL could be applied to an image.
• It connects your photographs into a web of images and allowing
  you to browse a virtual universe of interconnected scenes.

system requirements

Operating System:Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista RC1 or later

Web Browser: IE6, IE7, Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2.0

Memory: 256 MB of memory is a bare minimum; 1GB recommended.

Graphics:support for DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM driver, 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum), and 32 bits per pixel.

Download & Reference link Phtosynth download

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope.

It brings the imaginary from ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a exploration of a universe.

WorldWide  Telescope is created with the Microsoft high performance visual experience engine and allows panning and zooming around the night sky, planets and image environments. You can reveal the hidden structures with the WWT.

WWT is a single rich application portal that blends terabytes of images,information and stories from multiple sources over the Internet in to rich media experience. Kids of all ages will feel to explore and understand the universe with its simple and powerful user interface.

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