Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

Recorded PEX & MOLES Workshop

September 30, 2010 Sep 30, 2010 09/30/10
Cesar De la Torre
(image) Last summer (July 2010) we delivered in Madrid a nice PEX & MOLES workshop. The speaker was Peli de Halleux, from MICROSOFT RESEARCH. If you are interested in Unit Testing, Mocking, etc., you should take a look at it! It was a great workshop and we recorded it, so now we just published it on Channel9. Here you have the links...

Developing and Deploying Java-Tomcat apps into Windows Azure

September 12, 2010 Sep 12, 2010 09/12/10
Cesar De la Torre
(image) As you may know, Windows Azure is a multi-platform environment, so we can run many other languages/platforms other than .NET, like Java, PHP, Ruby, etc., and even using a whole Web-AppServer like Apache Tomcat, a DBMS like MySQL, and using IDEs like ECLIPSE. You can get more info about this here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure...

Importing/Exporting data to SQL Azure databases using BCP and SQL Scripts

June 4, 2010 Jun 4, 2010 06/4/10
Cesar De la Torre
(image) The basic way: SQL Scripts + BCP There are also other methods you can use to export/import or even sync data like SQL Azure Migration Wizard, SQL Azure Data Sync, and even SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services). Also, instead of creating database schema using SQL Scripts, another new option is using the new DACPAC (Data Tier Packages...

Adding a Reference to AppFabric Cache Client-Cache assemblies

May 26, 2010 May 26, 2010 05/26/10
Cesar De la Torre
  (image)     [UPDATED May 2011] We have now a much easier way to install and add a reference to AppFabric Client assemblies, using NuGet! :-) See: http://www.nuget.org/List/Packages/ServerAppFabric.Client  --- In order to develop against AppFabric Cache, of course, you need to reference its Client-Cache assemblies. You&...

Workshop AppFabric (Madrid May 28th 2010)

May 25, 2010 May 25, 2010 05/25/10
Cesar De la Torre
(image) (image) (image) Next Friday (Madrid, May 28th 2010) we’ll deliver a Workshop about Windows Server AppFabric. There’s no related cost to attend. You can register yourself using this page: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032451744&Culture=es-ES  (image)  (image)   This is the...

Visual Studio 2010 resources

May 7, 2010 May 7, 2010 05/7/10
Cesar De la Torre
(image) Here I post several useful links to VS.2010 resources. Documentation MSDN Product Documentation: · Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management · Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010: · Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio 2010 · Administration Guide for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation ...

Using Entity Framework Self Tracking Entities with AppFabric CACHE (‘Velocity’) and .NET 4.0 RTM

April 30, 2010 Apr 30, 2010 04/30/10
Cesar De la Torre
(image) (image) Currently, when you try to use Entity Framework STE (Self Tracking Entities) and AppFabric-Cache (aka. “Velocity”), you’ll get a runtime error. I mean, what we’re trying to do is trying to serialize STE objects within AppFabric-Cache. For instance, we could try to execute the following code, using AppFabric Cache ...

Repeating in Barcelona (May 13th) the Architects Forum XXV (N-Layer DDD Architecture with .NET 4.0)

April 26, 2010 Apr 26, 2010 04/26/10
Cesar De la Torre
(image) (image) (image) (image) REPEATING IT IN BARCELONA!! :-) --> (May 13th 2010) We really had a lot of requests asking for re-delivering this event in Barcelona. It also was a great success in Madrid last March 24th 2010 (almost 200 attendees and people really liked it). So, there we go, we’ll repeat it in Barcelona!! On May 13th ...