Cesar de la Torre
Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.
Latest posts
Windows Azure Management Pack for SCOM (RC) has just been published!!
The Windows Azure Management Pack enables you to monitor the availability and performance of applications that are running on Windows Azure. Feature Summary After configuration, the Windows Azure Management Pack offers the following functionality: You can download it from here (It is actually a RC –> RELEASE CANDIDATE): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=4f05f282-f23a-49da-8133-7146ee19f249
Recorded PEX & MOLES Workshop
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! :-) 1/3 - https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/channel9spain/Microsoft-PEXMOLES--advanced-Unit-Testing-aspects-13/ 2/3 - https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/channel9spain/Microsoft-PEXMOLES--advanced-Unit-Testing-aspects-23/ 3/3 - https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/channel9...
Houston codename: SQL Azure Web/RIA Management Studio
Microsoft® Project Code-Named “Houston” is a lightweight and easy to use database management tool for SQL Azure databases. It is designed specifically for Web developers and other technology professionals seeking a straightforward solution to quickly develop, deploy, and manage their data-driven applications in the cloud. Project “Houston” provides a web-based database management tool for basic database management tasks like authoring and executing queries, designing and editing a database schema, and editing table data. It is available on SQL Azure Labs. This web/Silverlight SQL Azu...
Developing and Deploying Java-Tomcat apps into Windows Azure
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/interop/ So, in this case, what I wanna show in this post is how you can develop and deploy a simple JAVA app (.JSP and SERVLET app) into Windows Azure (I’ll show it into the Windows Azure local Dev-Fabric but also into the real Windows Azure cloud in the Internet). There ar...
How to set a default page to a Windows Azure Web Role App (Silverlight, ASP.NET, etc.)
This is a very easy tip, but useful. As you may know, Windows Azure management portal has not a way to set many things you could do using IIS Management console. But, because most of the IIS 7.x configuration can be also set using XML configuration files, in most of the cases we don’t really need the IIS Manager. In this case, we can set a default page to a Windows Azure Web Role App (SIlverlight, ASP.NET, etc.) changing the web.config. We just specify the default page within the System.WebServer section: <defaultDocument> &nb...
Importing/Exporting data to SQL Azure databases using BCP and SQL Scripts
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), in SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Azure and Visual Studio 2010. But, in this post I’m going to show the most basic way, but also, a way that you can instrument from execution scripts , etc. First of all, we need a SQL Script to apply to our empty SQL Azure database. SQL Server 20...
Adding a Reference to AppFabric Cache Client-Cache assemblies
[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’d think it is a pretty straightforward action, but it is not. At least using current Beta and RC version, it is not like going to Visual Studio-->Add Reference—>Browse GAC assemblies, select it, and done?. Nope!. And this is something I have to do again and again in...
Workshop AppFabric (Madrid May 28th 2010)
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 This is the Agenda (9:30 – 14:00): - Introduction to AppFabric (Windows Server & Azure) – César de la Torre – Microsoft - Distributed Cache using AppFabric-Cache (aka. codename ‘Velocity’) – César de la Torre – Microsoft -- Coffee time - Hosting & Monitoring WCF...
Visual Studio 2010 resources
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 Server Videos VS2010 Launch: This video series provides an overview of the key features of Visual Studio 2010, including new IDE features for modeling and understanding code, developer and test collaboration, team collaboration with Team Foundation Server, Project Management, and app...