Cesar de la Torre
Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.
Latest posts
“Non Windows users” in AzMan (Authorization Manager)
AzMan background AzMan (Authorization Manager) is the best Microsoft technology to implement role & permissions based security for your applications. It exists as part of Windows Server (and Windows "workstation"), since versions Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. If you want to take a look of its management tool, just run it: "Start azman.msc" (from cmd or search). In Windows Server 2003 old days, your app users had to be Windows users, which in fact, is the most common way. Even today, with current AzMan version, you normally will use Windows users for your apps. But, sometimes, you need non-Windows use...
How to install a Loopback Adapter in Windows 7
It turns out that adding a Loopback adapter in Windows 7 is a little bit tricky, because we have no "Add Hardware" menu icon within Control Panel, anymore. Everything is supposed to be detected by Windows 7. (At least in current Windows 7 RC1). But if we're talking about a "Loopback Netwrok Adapter", it really cannot be detected, as it is a virtual device.. In any case, if you want to run the Wizard where you can manually add hardware, you need to start it from the COMMAND PROMPT: 1.- Run cmd, but do it like: "Run as Administrator" 2.- From the command prompt, write down "hdwwiz.exe" and execute it. Then, the "Ad...
Using “MUrl” – A textual Oslo DSL for RESTful Clients
“MUrl” is a textual DSL and runtime for interacting with REST/HTTP services. It is actually just a great Oslo-DSL sample, as you can download it (all its source code) from MSDN.com: http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/0/B/40B632EC-F201-43EE-8E29-C398A9DA8468/MUrlSample.msi As long as I know, “MUrl” has been mainly developed by Douglas Purdy. I saw his session at MIX09, which was fabulous; so now, I want to explain what “MUrl” is and how to use it. This post is, in fact, explaining most of the content that Doug told in MIX09. So, Just like we already have within Oslo and “M” Language, the following DSLs,...
Creating a simple Textual DSL with Oslo, “M” Language, MGrammar and Intellipad
I wrote a post about Oslo and “M” Language and how you can use it to model data. But in that case, we were not using our own custom Textual DSL, we were using just “M” Language. You can see that post here: Starting using OSLO, “M” Language, Oslo Repository and Intellipad http://blogs.msdn.com/cesardelatorre/archive/2009/04/20/starting-using-oslo-m-language-oslo-repository-and-intellipad.aspx What I’m going to create now, is a Custom Textual DSL sample (DSL == Domain Specific Language), based on Oslo. It is going to be very, very simple. I just want to show the essence of “M” Language and MGrammar and how we can...
Starting using OSLO, “M” Language, Oslo Repository and Intellipad
Microsoft “OSLO” is Microsoft’s next generation of Modeling Platform, Tools and DSLs. OSLO is basically composed by: - “M” Language (For Data Modeling and Textual DSLs ) - QUADRANT (Visual Tool for Visual Modeling) - Oslo Repository (Based on SQL Server. IT is the Oslo’s data store, for meta-data and data itself) You can actually research about Microsoft OSLO using the published “Oslo” SDK January 2009 CTP. This is the version I’m using for this post. Download - Microsoft "Oslo" SDK - January 2009 CTP (Refresh) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f2f4544c-626c-44a3-8866-b2a9fe07895...
Azure Metro Training in Madrid (16th April 2009) Material
Last week, we delivered a nice Azure training (One condensed full day about AZURE platform). Sorry, but everything is in Spanish (Agenda & Presentations), as we delivered it in Spanish. So, down below you can read the agenda and the Presentations are posted in my SKYDRIVE, as well: SKYDRIVE location (Presentations): http://cid-c537c2af47f728a0.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Msft%20Dpe%20Spain%20Architects%20Events/2009%20-%20Azure%20Metro%20Training Marzo de 2009 AZURE - METRO TRAINING ¿Cloud computing?... es uno de los mayores ...
IE8 release version ships during MIX09
We have just released the final version of IE8!. Here you have the address where you can download it: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx
Silverlight 3.0 news disclosed today at MIX09 in Las Vegas!!!
So, I’ve just been attending MIX09 keynote (ScottGu, etc.), and… as you’ll discover, Silverlight 3.0 rocks!!! :-) Here you have some of what we’re disclosing today about SL3.0: SILVERLIGHT 3.0 MEDIA & GRAPHICS GPU hardware acceleration!! Opt-in feature per element Codecs (H.264/AAC/MP4, VC1, etc.) Perspective 3D Bitmap & pixel API Pixel Shader effects!! Deep Zoom improvements App. Development Deep linking, navigation and SEA Improved text quality Multi-touch support 100+ controls available Library caching support (reference to libs & cached so no need to download it again) DEMO: ROLLING STONE C...
How to create a Bootable DVD (Windows 7 or Windows Vista)
Sometimes you'd want to install Windows from a bootable DVD but you just have all the Windows files... I mean, in my case I've got Windows 7 build 7048 (beta drop, but it does not matter), but I currently don't have its related ISO image. So, if I want to install a plain new Windows 7 from scratch (booting & installing from a DVD), guess what you need?, right..., I want to create my own bootable Windows DVD. In order to do that, we can use several Microsoft tools that come in AIK (Windows Automated Installation Kit), for Windows Vista or Windows 7 (the latest in my case). You can download from here, for...