Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

January 2009 - Cesar de la Torre

RIA-Silverlight and Web applications Architecture pocket-guides from Microsoft Patterns & Practices

January 13, 2009 Jan 13, 2009 01/13/09
Cesar De la Torre
Microsoft Patterns & Practices have several nice application architecture pocket-guides about RIA & Silverlight and Web applications. RIA-Silverlight pocket guide: http://www.codeplex.com/AppArch/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=19799http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/11/24/ria-architecture-pocket-guide.aspx Web...

Windows 7 – Natively Booting from a .VHD file (Virtual PC image)

January 11, 2009 Jan 11, 2009 01/11/09
Cesar De la Torre
[Update 15 August 2009 - Tested with Windows 7 RTM final version]  The most important thing to keep in mind is that we currently (prior to Windows 7) cannot natively boot from any kind of .VHD.  Actually, I have just managed to boot from a Windows 7 installed on a new .VHD, and I installed it right from the Windows 7 DVD. ...

Attaching a .VHD (Virtual PC image) using Windows 7 capabilities

January 10, 2009 Jan 10, 2009 01/10/09
Cesar De la Torre
Windows 7 has a great and new capability which consists on  the ability to attach a VHD (Virtual PC Hard Disk image) as a  native drive. This way you could see a VHD from Windows 7 like if it were a regular hard drive. It is very useful, many times I want to get some demos or any file from within a VPC. In XP or Vista you ...