Free eBook on “Containerized Docker Application Lifecycle with Microsoft Tools and Platform”

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Cesar De la Torre
Coinciding with today’s release of Visual Studio 2017 RC1 at CONNECT 2016 in NYC (Nov. 16th 2016), I wanted to announce the availability of this new and free eBook on “Containerized Docker Application Lifecycle with Microsoft Tools and Platform” which covers and end-to-end vision of Docker container based application development plus CI/...

.NET, Cloud and Mobile Events in Argentina and Chile – Content

September 26, 2016 Sep 26, 2016 09/26/16
Cesar De la Torre
Last week (Sept. 19-22 2016) I delivered a similar event in Buenos Aires and in Santiago the Chile, afterwards. Here I post the agenda I delivered, a few pictures about it plus the decks I used about it. Morning Event – Developing microservices in the Cloud with .NET, Docker and Microsoft Azure Service Fabric Related technologies: - ...

Docker and Containers: Basic elements and taxonomy

July 13, 2016 Jul 13, 2016 07/13/16
Cesar De la Torre
I’m currently working on a Docker and Containerized applications related document and it happens that I just created the following explanatory figure. Since I got a few people asking about several related topics in Docker, it might be useful to publish this short blog post helping out folks starting with Docker. This diagram is just about ...

Running .NET Core apps on multiple frameworks and What the Target Framework Monikers (TFMs) are about

June 28, 2016 Jun 28, 2016 06/28/16
Cesar De la Torre
In .NET Core 1.0 apps (either ASP.NET Core apps or Console apps, as of today) there are new possibilities like being able to run your app (like an ASP.NET Core app) on top of the .NET Core Platform or on top of the traditional .NET Framework 4.5.x which is critical for many enterprise apps that still might not have all the libraries/...

.NET Core, .NET Framework, Xamarin – The “WHAT and WHEN to use it”

June 27, 2016 Jun 27, 2016 06/27/16
Cesar De la Torre
I’m writing this blog post about “.NET end-to-end” now that we just released the .NET Core Platform 1.0 RTM, so it’s clear “who is who” and “when to use what”. It’s a long post but I think it’s good to have available a single post about .NET end-to-end. .NET is nowadays a development-platform running across many OS-...

Using Azure Functions from Xamarin Mobile Apps

May 17, 2016 May 17, 2016 05/17/16
Cesar De la Torre
I was testing Azure Functions by creating a simple proof of concept with a Xamarin.Forms client and since there’s not much info about “using Azure Functions from Xamarin” I thought it was a good idea to publish this Getting Started or Walkthrough in my MSDN blog. Make no mistake about it, you consume an Azure Function from a Xamarin ...

Solving issue with VS Android Emulator, Xamarin apps and Intel Skylake processor (i.e. when using a Microsoft Surface Book i7, Surface Pro 4, etc.)

February 6, 2016 Feb 6, 2016 02/6/16
Cesar De la Torre
I got a Surface Book (comes with the new Intel i7 Skylake) a few days ago and I was experiencing a very weird issue when running and/or debugging Xamarin apps on the Visual Studio Android Emulator.. Basically, VS couldn’t debug/attach but I was not getting any application error, neither.. You can see the experience in the following recorded...

Publishing an existing Azure Mobile App service as PowerApps ‘IT Managed API’ (Using the HealthClinic.biz sample apps)

December 16, 2015 Dec 16, 2015 12/16/15
Cesar De la Torre
  Intro to “PowerApps Enterprise” You may have heard of Microsoft PowerApps and ‘PowerApps Enterprise’. Its code-name was “Project Kratos” and part of it is deriving from the original “Project Siena”. But in PowerApps, the client PowerApps are cross-platform (iOS, Android and Windows) as they are internally based on Apache...

Azure Service Fabric and the Microservices Architecture – My new MSDN Magazine Article

December 10, 2015 Dec 10, 2015 12/10/15
Cesar De la Torre
  In the last weeks I wrote (with some great collaboration from Kunal Deep Singh and Vaclav Turecek) an MSDN magazine article that was published a few days ago, called Azure Service Fabric and the Microservices Architecture, in the December 2015 MSDNMag issue. Here's a brief abstract: Microservices is a hot buzzword at the moment. ...

Automating Windows environments’ setup with Boxstarter and Chocolatey packages

January 13, 2015 Jan 13, 2015 01/13/15
Cesar De la Torre
Talking last week with Scott Hanselman he showed me in his laptop some cool stuff which is very useful for me as I usually need to re-install my machines pretty often due to the release of new betas and the fact that I prefer to start with clean machines whenever I can. And you know, every time you have a new machine or .VHD, you need to re-...