Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

Developing Apps for Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013

November 13, 2012 Nov 13, 2012 11/13/12

Cesar De la Torre

Starting this week, at the ‘SharePoint Conference 2012’, we have released new versions of the Microsoft Tools for developing Apps for SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013. This is a summary that I created about it. What are ‘apps’ for Office and SharePoint? Apps for Office and SharePoint are based on a new application model which shares ...

Storyboarding “MY EVENTS” Modern App

October 8, 2012 Oct 8, 2012 10/8/12

Cesar De la Torre

You can quickly illustrate a new or modified application interface by using PowerPoint Storyboarding, which is available with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. With this tool you can build a storyboard from a collection of pre-defined storyboard shapes and capture existing user interfaces. Also, you can customize the layouts of your web, client, ...

Setting the sample ‘MY EVENTS’ modern application up & running

September 17, 2012 Sep 17, 2012 09/17/12

Cesar De la Torre

(image) (image) Setting the ‘MY EVENTS’ demo app up and running This demo app (MY EVENTS) is the one we made and showed in the Visual Studio 2012 Launch keynote (Modern Apps keynote), in September 12th 2012: http://www.visualstudiolaunch.com/vs2012vle/Home The main goal of this sample modern ...

Microsoft Platform Day – Developing LOB apps with Microsoft Platform (Milan June 13th, Madrid June 21st & Mexico city June 28th)

June 25, 2012 Jun 25, 2012 06/25/12

Cesar De la Torre

We are delivering the Microsoft Platform Day, “Developing LOB (Line Of Business) apps with the Microsoft Platform”, in Milan (Italy) on June 13th, Madrid (Spain) June 21st & Mexico city (Mexico) June 28th. Here I post a few pictures and also the URL to the presentations: Presentations: http://sdrv.ms/LX5FlN (image) ...

Creating several Entity Diagrams within a single Model in EF 5.0 and Visual Studio 2012

June 3, 2012 Jun 3, 2012 06/3/12

Cesar De la Torre

This feature is killer and it’s been waited for long time by any developer or company who use EF visual models with a lot of entities. Think about a model where you have hundreds of entities.., opening a single diagram with 200 entities doesn’t make sense and it is too slow and kind of unmanageable. Now, with EF 5.0 and Visual Studio ...

Coloring Entities with EF 5.0 RC and VS.2012 RC

June 3, 2012 Jun 3, 2012 06/3/12

Cesar De la Torre

In Visual Studio 2012 RC (the Release Candidate was released last week on May 31st 2012) and Entity Framework 5.0 RC, the Entity Designer surface of EF MODEL/DATABASE FIRST, now supports entity shape coloring. This is really nice to differentiate categories, like when you have several AGGREGATES within your MODEL, etc. Here is a sneak peak of ...

Creating a Windows 8 Release Preview Master VHD

May 31, 2012 May 31, 2012 05/31/12

Cesar De la Torre

You can install Windows 8 into a .VHD following a similar process (like this post I wrote) than when you install it on a raw hard drive, but if you want to have a clean master .vhd which is not related to any specific installation and machine name, and you want to re-use this master .vhd in many machines over time, then the following procedure...

Entity Framework Code First DbContext and SQL Azure Connection Fault Handling

April 24, 2012 Apr 24, 2012 04/24/12

Cesar De la Torre

(image) (image) I’ve been working migrating an App to Windows Azure and SQL Azure. This app is using Entity Framework 4.3 Code First and DbContext. One important point is related to the SQL Azure Conection Fault Handling. If you don’t know about this topic, you can read this explanatory info: http://social.technet.microsoft...

Domain Driven Design (DDD) & Visual Studio 11 Beta ALM, great fit!

April 6, 2012 Apr 6, 2012 04/6/12

Cesar De la Torre

Domain Driven Design (DDD) is especially suitable for creating long-term LOB Apps, but usually, DDD is presented as a very patterns & architecture related subject (topics like Bounded-Contexts, Domain-Models, patterns like Repository, Aggregate, Value-Object, etc.), like we actually did in our ‘DDD Patterns Guidance with .NET...

Installing Windows 8 Release Preview on a .VHD file from a bootable USB-Pen

February 29, 2012 Feb 29, 2012 02/29/12

Cesar De la Torre

** May 31st 2012 – UPDATE TO WINDOWS 8 RELEASE PREVIEW ** There are quite a few steps to do, so I’ll write it down for my records. Specifically, I have installed the Windows 8 Release Preview on a on a Samsung Slate Series 7 Tablet, but on a .VHD with native Boot: (image) For more info about .VHD with Native Boot, see (Updated: May 31...

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