Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

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‘The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect’ error related to MMC.EXE programs and weird cause & simple solution

March 27, 2011 Mar 27, 2011 03/27/11
Cesar De la Torre
  I publish this error as its cause was really weird: I was getting an error when trying to start any Management Console related program (mmc.exe based admin tool), like Certificates, Event Viewer, etc. The error was: “The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application...

Info about SCOM Azure Management Pack

March 21, 2011 Mar 21, 2011 03/21/11
Cesar De la Torre
Just for my record, I wanted to post a few interesting posts regarding ‘SCOM Azure Management Pack’: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/walterm/archive/2011/02/01/setting-up-performance-counters-in-your-web-and-worker-roles.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/walterm/archive/2011/02/14/adding-azure-application-monitoring-to-scom-2007-r2.aspx http://...

A few options for Windows Azure Storage Backup & Restore

March 12, 2011 Mar 12, 2011 03/12/11
Cesar De la Torre
(image) I just wanted to record a few options I found for Windows Azure Storage backup-restore (I’m not talking about SQL Azure, in this case). If you have any other option for this matter, please tell me and I’ll be happy to update this post. 1) Windows Azure Storage Tables backup and storage: http://tablestoragebackup.codeplex....

Typical issue‘One of the request inputs is not valid’ when Working with the Windows Azure Development Storage

March 12, 2011 Mar 12, 2011 03/12/11
Cesar De la Torre
  One of the typical issues is getting the error "One of the request inputs is not valid" that occurs when testing the application with empty tables in development storage. This is because Development Storage currently requires the schema for an entity stored in a table to have been previously defined before you are allowed to query it. ...

Architects Forum XXVI ‘CloudPower’ – Presentations (Spanish)

March 10, 2011 Mar 10, 2011 03/10/11
Cesar De la Torre
(image) As many people asked for it, here you can download the presentations (in Spanish) we delivered yesterday, during the Architects Forum XXVI, regarding the following topics: - CQRS in Windows Azure - Claims based Security and Windows Azure Access Control - Windows Azure AppFabric-Cache - Windows Azure Connect - Windows Azure AppFabric ...

Great Diagram about our DDD NLayered .NET 4.0 Architecture

March 10, 2011 Mar 10, 2011 03/10/11
Cesar De la Torre
Just wanted to share a great Architecture diagram made by Julio César Sanchez, who reviewed our Architecture and Sample app and at the same time elaborated this neat diagram. We really appreciate his time and details expressed in it: (image) Thanks a lot Julio Sanchez!! :-) (To get a high resolution copy, grab it from here http://...

How to solve “SetConfigurationSettingPublisher needs to be called before FromConfigurationSetting can be used” After Moving to Windows Azure SDK 1.3

March 5, 2011 Mar 5, 2011 03/5/11
Cesar De la Torre
  A quick reminder: After Windows Azure SDK 1.3, we now use full IIS instead HWC (Hosted Web Core). Using IIS we can have several WebSites per WebRole, so now the internal architecture and processes are different, this is why we have to change the we we use the API regarding Windows Azure configuration settings. Basically, in case you...