Cesar De la Torre

Principal Program Manager, Azure

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

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Published first ALPHA version of Domain Oriented N-Layered Architecture V2.0

July 3rd, 2011
[UPDATED - April 2017] - IMPORTANT:  For up-to-date architecture and development guidance using .NET (i.e. .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Docker containers, etc.) including Domain-Driven Design patterns, microservices architectures and other .NET related technologies like Xamarin for mobile apps check this landing page pointing to multiple NEW ...

DDD-Exchange 2011

June 13th, 2011
So, it was such a great event with Eric Evans, Udi Dahan and Greg Young. Here I post a few pictures I got. Before starting: (image) (image) Eric Evans presenting the Agenda: (image) Q&A to Eric, Udi and Greg: (image) Saying hello to Udi: (image) Strong discussions below… (image) (image) All in all, I really liked all the ...

Working with WCF RIA Services JSON endpoints for HTML5, JavaScript & JQuery

June 7th, 2011
  WCF RIA Services and JSON endpoints Interesting posts about the base for many future apps based on HTML5, WCF RIA Services JSON endpoints and JavaScript : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davrous/archive/2010/12/14/how-to-open-a-wcf-ria-services-application-to-other-type-of-clients-the-json-endpoint-4-5.aspx http://www.yumasoft.com/node/108...

Implementing a Value-Object Base class (Supertype pattern–DDD patterns related)

June 6th, 2011
It is usually a recommended practice to have Value-Object base-class so we can have common functionality which can be used by all of our value-object classes. Typically, comparison methods or any other common subject for Value-Objects, should be included here. Below I show a sample Value-Object Base-Class...

Don’t like EF 4.1 ‘Data Annotations’ for DDD Architectures implementation –’Fluent API’ fits better for that!

May 27th, 2011
I write this post in order to get some feedback regarding what I currently think about EF 4.1 Data Annotations and how it fits in DDD Architectural styles. About DDD Architectural styles, here it is our Architecture Guide (Though we are actually writing its second edition, adding EF 4.1 Code-First approach). But most DDD Architectural ...

Just Published the English version of our ‘DDD N-Layered .NET 4.0 Architecture Guide’ book and Sample-App at CODEPLEX

May 23rd, 2011
(image) (image) [UPDATED - April 2017] - IMPORTANT:  For up-to-date architecture and development guidance using .NET (i.e. .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Docker containers, etc.) including Domain-Driven Design patterns, microservices architectures and other .NET related technologies like Xamarin for mobile apps check this landing page pointing ...

Workshop VS.Lightswitch & Windows Azure!

April 26th, 2011
  (image) [UPDATED June 7th] Here I add a nice LightSiwtch Sample Application: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/archive/2011/05/25/contoso-construction-lightswitch-advanced-development-sample.aspx  [UPDATED May 11th 2011] Here I attach the presentation we delivered in this Workshop. --- --- On May 5th, joining forces with Avanade, ...

New update Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – April Update

April 25th, 2011
Quite a few new interesting updates: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=413E88F8-5966-4A83-B309-53B7B77EDF78&displaylang=en From the site: Some of the specific changes with the April update of the training kit includes: · [New] Authenticating Users in a Windows Phone 7 App via ACS, OData Services and Windows...

Entity Framework 4.1 just Released!

April 14th, 2011
For me, it means fundamentally ‘Code First approach’, which is actually the best approach for DDD (Domain Driven Design) architectural styles (for your Domain Entity Model). So now, it is ready for production developments!!. Release to Web (RTW) of Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 (EF 4.1). This is a fully supported, go-live ...

How to enable Wireless Networking on Windows Server 2008 R2

April 10th, 2011
Just for my reminding, as I always forget these steps: By default, WiFi connection is disabled in Windows Server 2008 R2, kind of "locked down", for security reasons (Windows Server is supposed to be running on a server, not in a PC). But in my case, I run Windows Server 2008 R2 on my laptop (HP Elitebook 8540w), so... To ...