Cesar de la Torre
Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.
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Microsoft Event – ‘Saving Costs with Microsoft development platform’
Next March 11th we’ll deliver in Madrid (NH Eurobuilding Hotel) an event about how to save costs in these uncertain economic time. We’ll see why Microsoft is more productive and has better TCO than competing technologies like Java. Keep in mind that the audience should be ITDMs, I mean, IT Directors, development area directors, or Enterprise Architects who are technology decission makers, etc. This is not a very technical event but a strategic event. Down below you have the invitation and agenda, sorry, but everything is and will be in Spanish: Evento Microsoft ‘Reducción de costes con Platafo...
IE8 RC1 is now available for public download
RIA-Silverlight and Web applications Architecture pocket-guides from Microsoft Patterns & Practices
Microsoft Patterns & Practices have several nice application architecture pocket-guides about RIA & Silverlight and Web applications. RIA-Silverlight pocket guide: http://www.codeplex.com/AppArch/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=19799http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/11/24/ria-architecture-pocket-guide.aspx Web pocket guide: http://www.codeplex.com/AppArch/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=19802http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/11/24/web-application-architecture-pocket-guide.aspx All P&P Pocket guides: http://www.codeplex.com/AppArch/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Pocket%20...
Windows 7 – Natively Booting from a .VHD file (Virtual PC image)
[Update 15 August 2009 - Tested with Windows 7 RTM final version] The most important thing to keep in mind is that we currently (prior to Windows 7) cannot natively boot from any kind of .VHD. Actually, I have just managed to boot from a Windows 7 installed on a new .VHD, and I installed it right from the Windows 7 DVD. We can do a similar process with "Windows Server 2008 R2 (beta)" installed on a .VHD file, as well. If you'd use Virtual PC 2007 to install the Virtual image, the produced .VHD wouldn't work when trying to boot from the .VHD. A.- Creating the .VHD file and Windows...
Attaching a .VHD (Virtual PC image) using Windows 7 capabilities
Windows 7 has a great and new capability which consists on the ability to attach a VHD (Virtual PC Hard Disk image) as a native drive. This way you could see a VHD from Windows 7 like if it were a regular hard drive. It is very useful, many times I want to get some demos or any file from within a VPC. In XP or Vista you had to start that VPC using Virtual Pc, etc., now we can just attach it a get any file from the .VHD!! :-) The stesp are the following: Attach a VHD From 'Computer management' and Action menu you can attach the VHD: Remember this is just to see the .VHD files. BTW, ...
Unity for Silverlight 2.0!
This is cool! :-) Several links: – MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd362339.aspx – Community Forum: http://codeplex.com/unity What is Unity? The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection container. This release of Unity is a port of Unity Application Block 1.2 to Microsoft Silverlight 2.0. What’s New? The following capabilities and packaging of the Unity container have been adjusted in this release: – The single Microsoft.Practices.Unity.dll file in the Silverlight version contains all the classes from the three separate desktop DLLs: Microsoft.P...
Content-Presentations from our Architect Forum XXII: S+S and Microsoft Azure platform
Here I post the presentations of our event: http://cid-c537c2af47f728a0.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Msft%20Dpe%20Spain%20Architects%20Events/Architect%20Forum%20XXII%20-%20Azure%20Platform?uc=2 Some of the PPTs are in Spanish, but some of them are in English (like the sessions delivered by Clemens & Eugenio Pace).
Our Architect Forum XXII: S+S and Microsoft Azure platform – Madrid, Dec.4th 2008
Next December 4th 2008 we're gonna run in Madrid, Spain, a special event (Architect Forum XXII: S+S and Microsoft Azure services platform). Azure platform and Windows Azure is the new Microsoft S+S platform (for apps. development), a big bet for 'computing in the cloud'. If you are a Software Architect, and you are interested and want to attend to this event we're gonna run in Madrid, just register yourself in the following address: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032395293&Culture=es-ES Here is the whole agenda: AGENDA Our main speaker: Clemens Vasters (Azure Service Bus Techni...
PPTs about our Workshop ‘Fitting the Entity Framework in N-Tier & N-Layer Architectures’
Last October 13th we delivered a Workshop about EF and N-Tier & N-Layer Apps. We had a great feed-back about it. :-) You can get the Presentations from this URL within my SkyDrive: http://cid-c537c2af47f728a0.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Msft%20Dpe%20Spain%20Architects%20Events/2008%20-%20Workshop%20Entity%20Framework%20in%20N-Tier%20%7C0%20N-Layer%20Architectures Take into account that we wrote it in Spanish & English, download the .ZIP file you really want!. ;-)