Cesar de la Torre
Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.
Latest posts
‘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
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 event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail” Something like the following Message-box, but showing the specific path file I was trying to execute (and always based on the MMC.EXE). But because of I couldn’t open the Event Viewer, I could...
Windows Azure VMs Comparison
Just wanted to show a simple table comparison regarding CPU, memory, storage, I/O and cost for each Windows Azure VMs (Compute Instances).
Info about SCOM Azure Management Pack
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://blogs.msdn.com/b/walterm/archive/2011/03/18/configuring-azure-diagnostics-performance-counter-monitoring-in-scom-2007-r2.aspx
A few options for Windows Azure Storage Backup & Restore
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.com/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/05/03/protecting-your-tables-against-application-errors.aspx 2) Windows Azure Storage Blobs backup and storage: http://azure.ulitzer.com/node/1431929 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/04/30/protecti...
Typical issue‘One of the request inputs is not valid’ when Working with the Windows Azure Development Storage
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. WORKAROUND The workaround is simple, we just need to insert, and then delete, a dummy row into the Windows Azure tables if the application is running in the development fabric. During the initialization of the web role, it is a good idea if the application checks whether it i...
Updated Windows Azure SDK (v.1.4) and Windows Azure Management Portal
New! (March 9th 2011) Updated Windows Azure SDK (v.1.4) and Windows Azure Management Portal. New features we are enabling today include: For more detailed info: http://bit.ly/hIPsW8
Architects Forum XXVI ‘CloudPower’ – Presentations (Spanish)
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 Service Bus. Download URL: http://bit.ly/gtCZYJ
Great Diagram about our DDD NLayered .NET 4.0 Architecture
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: Thanks a lot Julio Sanchez!! :-) (To get a high resolution copy, grab it from here http://microsoftnlayerapp.codeplex.com/discussions/248944) Just in case you’re not aware, here you have the links regarding our DDD NLayered .NET 4.0 Architecture & Sample-App, in case you are not aware: Sample App published at CODEPLEX (OSS) http://microsoftnlayerapp.codeplex.com/ Architec...
Architects Forum XXVI –Madrid March 9th– Enterprise-CloudApps in Windows Azure PaaS-Cloud platform (Free attendance)
Next Wednesday we’ll deliver the following event (free attendance) in Madrid (Will be delivered 100% in Spanish): REGISTRATION https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032468807&Culture=es-ES