Cesar de la Torre
Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.
Latest posts
Publishing an existing Azure Mobile App service as PowerApps ‘IT Managed API’ (Using the HealthClinic.biz sample apps)
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 Cordova. However, “PowerApps Enterprise” is a lot more than the client apps you can create. There's a lot of stuff in Azure as well, and the Azure area from PowerApps is precisely the right space to work on for developers. The following is a high level diagram that I made trying to show t...
Azure Service Fabric and the Microservices Architecture – My new MSDN Magazine Article
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. While there are many presentations and conference talks about the subject, a lot of developers remain confused. A common question we’ve heard: “Isn’t this just another service-oriented architecture (SOA) or domain-driven design (DDD) approach?” Certainly, many of the techniq...
Automating Windows environments’ setup with Boxstarter and Chocolatey packages
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-install a lot of different tools and apps. It is not just about Visual Studio and Office, and sometimes you forget the list of all the apps you need. So, in a different page, I usually use .VHDX to boot Windows natively (Check this blog post “Booting Windows 8.1 Update nat...
MyShuttle.biz Azure backend services and LOB integration to O365 and Salesforce powered by Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio 2015
[**NEW!! - Updated on March 2015 - Compatible with VS 2015 CTP 6 **] This blog post (focusing on the Azure backend services for MyShuttle.biz mobile apps) is the fifth post of a blog posts series covering the different scenarios implemented by the MyShuttle.biz apps. 1. Blog Post: Global Intro of the MyShuttle.biz demo apps from Connect(); Visual Studio and Azure event 2. Blog post: MyShuttle.biz ASP.NET 5 Web Apps and Services 3. Blog Post: MyShuttle.biz and Cross-platform Mobile Development of native apps for iOS, Android and Windows with .NET and Xamarin 4. Blog Post: MyShuttle.biz and multi device development...
MyShuttle.biz ASP.NET 5 Web Apps and Services
[*** March 2015 – UPDATED to Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 version ***] If you want to have a detailed overview about ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core 5, check this blog post out that I wrote a few days ago. This actual blog post (focusing on ASP.NET 5 web apps development) is the second post of a blog posts series covering the different scenarios implemented by the MyShuttle.biz apps. Here’s the list of blog posts: 1. Blog Post: Global Intro of the MyShuttle.biz demo apps from Connect(); Visual Studio and Azure event 2. (Current blog post) MyShuttle.biz ASP.NET...
MyShuttle.biz and Cross-platform Mobile Development of native apps for iOS, Android and Windows with .NET and Xamarin
[**NEW!! - Updated on March 2015 - Compatible with VS 2015 CTP 6 **] This blog post (focusing on native apps development) is the third post of a blog posts serie covering the different scenarios implemented by the MyShuttle.biz apps. 1. Blog Post: Global Intro of the MyShuttle.biz demo apps from Connect(); Visual Studio and Azure event 2. Blog post: MyShuttle.biz ASP.NET 5 Web Apps and Services 3. (Current post) MyShuttle.biz and Cross-platform Mobile Development of native apps for iOS, Android and Windows with .NET and Xamarin 4. Blog Post: MyShuttle.biz and multi device development of hybr...
MyShuttle.biz and multi device development of hybrid apps for iOS, Android and Windows with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova
[**NEW!! - Updated on March 2015 - Compatible with VS 2015 CTP 6 **] This blog post (focusing on hybrid mobile apps development based on HTML, JavaScript and TypeScript within Apache Cordova container) is the forth post of a blog posts series covering the different scenarios implemented by the MyShuttle.biz apps. 1. Blog Post: Global Intro of the MyShuttle.biz demo apps from Connect(); Visual Studio and Azure event 2. Blog post: MyShuttle.biz ASP.NET 5 Web Apps and Services 3. Blog Post: MyShuttle.biz and Cross-platform Mobile Development of native apps for iOS, Android and Windows with .NET and Xamarin...
MyShuttle.biz demo apps from Connect(); Visual Studio and Azure event
[**NEW!! - Updated on March 2015 - Compatible with VS 2015 CTP 6 **] This is the first blog post of a series of posts regarding the MYSHUTTLE.biz sample applications implemented with the new Visual Studio 2015 Preview and .NET 2015 Preview. Here’s the list of blog posts: 1. (Current blog post) Global Intro of the MyShuttle.biz demo apps from Connect(); Visual Studio and Azure event 2. Blog Post: MyShuttle.biz ASP.NET 5 Web Apps and Services 3. Blog Post: MyShuttle.biz and Cross-platform Mobile Development of native apps for iOS, Android and Windows with .NET and Xamarin 4...
What is .NET Core 5 and ASP.NET 5 within .NET 2015 Preview
(UPDATE - Nov.2016) - Note that .NET 5 and ASP.NET Core 5 were temporal brandings while .NET Core was in beta. Its final branding was .NET Core 1.0 and ASP.NET Core 1.0 when released in June 2016, due to the big shift or "reset/modernization" in .NET Core compared to .NET 4.x. --- Last week, on Nov. 12th at the Visual Studio Connect(); event, it was an epic day where we showed our end to end vision about .NET 2015 and VS 2015. You can watch the recorded event here. For this post, I wanted to show my specific point of view about two areas within .NET 2015: .NET Core 5 ASP.NET 5 Positioning .NET 2015 First o...