Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

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...

Web Farm Framework 2.0 for IIS

March 5, 2011 Mar 5, 2011 03/5/11
Cesar De la Torre
This is a very interesting stuff for managing scalable web farms based on your own IIS servers, in a better way . The Microsoft Web Farm Framework is a free, fully supported, Microsoft product that enables you to easily provision and mange a farm of web servers.  It enables you to automate the installation and configuration of platform ...

How to fix: Error when deploying Windows Azure App on WA SDK V1.3 – The communication object, System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel, cannot be used for communication because it is in the Faulted state.

February 6, 2011 Feb 6, 2011 02/6/11
Cesar De la Torre
  You might get this error (The communication object, System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel, cannot be used for communication because it is in the Faulted state.) if your Solution is working under any Source Control manager, like TFS, etc… Not joking… (image) (image) This is the whole exception: You might also see ...

Using Multiple Administrators WLID on a Windows Azure Subscription

February 6, 2011 Feb 6, 2011 02/6/11
Cesar De la Torre
Just a useful tip: When managing your Windows Azure subscriptions it is advantageous to have multiple service administrators manage the Hosted Services, Storage Accounts and CDN on a subscription. When a subscription is purchased through the Microsoft Online Services Portal, the service administrator specified during the subscription process ...

Just released V1.0 of our DDD NLayered Architecture Guide/Book and Sample-App (Free eBook)

November 30, 2010 Nov 30, 2010 11/30/10
Cesar De la Torre
[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 ...

The future of Silverlight! See SILVERLIGHT FIRESTARTER on Dec. 2nd!!

November 12, 2010 Nov 12, 2010 11/12/10
Cesar De la Torre
(image) There was quite a lot of buzz after PDC talking about HTML5 vs. Silverlight and wondering what will be Silverlight’s future. Well, here we have it. There’s gonna be a single event just for that, to have it clear. I strongly believe that Silverlight is here to stay. It is much more powerful than HTML5 (from UX design and also ...

Follow PDC10 on-line!!

October 28, 2010 Oct 28, 2010 10/28/10
Cesar De la Torre
This is going to be the first time where anybody will be able to follow the whole PDC (all sessions) on-line!. Follow PDC on-line from this URL: http://player.microsoftpdc.com/session?refid=73401 Also, here you can see about this new PDC on-line experience: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/PDC10-and-the-new-Online-...