Cesar de la Torre
Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.
Latest posts
Booting Windows 8.1 Update natively from a .VHDX image
This is very useful when you need to boot Windows natively, but you need to have different environments, like working with BETAS/CTPs, etc., like it is my case. ;) In many cases HyperV might not suitable for you, for instance, if I want to deploy mobile apps from Visual Studio (Windows Phone apps or Xamarin apps to Android devices), I’d need to connect the mobile devices to USB ports. But, HyperV VMs don’t support USB connections to devices, etc… Here's some additional info if you want to know more about "Virtual Hard Disks (.VHD/.VHDX) with Native Boot": http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh8...
.NET Conf June 2014 – Recorded sessions available for free!
As part of the .NET Conf team, I want to highlight in my blog these .NET sessions we just delivered this week. During this week (June 25th and 26th 2014) we shared innovation and news about the present and future of .NET, all in a single place focusing on .NET technologies. If you missed any session during the streaming delivered on June 25th and 26th, or you were not even aware of the conference, for your convenience, all the sessions at the .NET Conf were recorded and are available here: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/dotnetConf/2014 .NET Conf summary and recorded content The .NET Conf 2014 was a two-d...
The Future of .NET in the Server: ASP.NET vNext optimized for Cloud and Server workloads
Before getting into “The future of .NET in the server”, I want to highlight how the ASP.NET and Web Tools teams just released great RTM ASP.NET stuff (final version). Specifically, Improvements to ASP.NET Web Forms and many other new features for ASP.NET in general, all of that final/RTM as part of Visual Studio 2013 UPDATE 2 RTM, released during this week in TechEd NA 2014. But, in this blog post I want to focus on the “Future of .NET and ASP.NET”. A sneak peak or preview of ASP.NET vNext and .NET vNext in the Server. The ASP.NET and .NET teams joined forces for this effort, and are taking advantage of the gr...
.NET innovation at //BUILD 2014
Today, April 3rd 2014 we showed a lot of new innovation and investment, for the future, on every single area of .NET, starting from the core of .NET, the basis for business applications on top of the web or the Windows desktop, going to scalable cloud services in Microsoft Azure, and reaching the end users in Windows Store devices and even through cross-device development strategies. Here’s the global picture that I created for //BUILD. Let's drill down to get a brief summary of the different areas while providing the most important links to the details, so you can research where you are more inte...
.NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) Preview heading to .NET and Visual Studio vNext
On April 3rd 2014 (second day of //BUILD 2014) Microsoft released a new preview version of “Roslyn”, with an official name: .NET Compiler Platform. which will be part of the next version of .NET and Visual Studio, but you can try it right now on top of VS 2013. What is the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) The .NET Compiler Platform Preview (“Roslyn”) is a major update of the C# and VB compilers. But, “Roslyn” is not just about compilers but an open platform providing an API that provides an object model on top of the C# and VB compilers and language services s...
New Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update – News in SharePoint development
Today (March 3rd 2014), at the SharePoint Conference (VEGAS, U.S.), along with the Office team, we are a releasing a number of significant updates for developers building apps for SharePoint and Office 365. Here’s an updated summary that I just created: What are Apps for Office and SharePoint? (Office 365 apps) Apps for Office and SharePoint are based on a unique application model which shares a common approach for extending Office and SharePoint. It brings the value of web apps we know on devices to the productivity applications you use on a daily basis. This apps model is built on web technologies like HT...
Announcing The New Roslyn powered .NET Framework Reference Source
We just announced http://referencesource-beta.microsoft.com You now can:• Debug into .NET framework source in Visual Studio (better than before)• Download the source with .sln and project files, so you can open and browse in Visual Studio• Browse the source online For a tutorial, checkout our Channel 9 video: [View:http://media.ch9.ms/ch9/4c8f/8faf5ad6-3482-49a2-b6ee-6a61f0544c8f/HowToUseTheNetSourceBrowser_high.mp4] For further info, see:http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/02/24/a-new-look-for-net-reference-source.aspxhttp://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingTheNewRoslynpoweredNETFra...
MyCompany Demo Apps – Extended info and related sessions (DemoScripts and PPT/decks)
---- [UPDATE January 2014]: Added two more client apps to 'MyCompany Demo Apps', the iPad and Android client applications developed in C# with Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android thanks to a partnership we made between Microsoft and Xamarin]. Get it from: https://github.com/xamarin/MyCompany/ ---- At the Visual Studio 2013 Launch Event (Nov. 13th 2013), Microsoft used a set of demo applications to explain the new features in .NET 4.5.1 and Visual Studio 2013. MyCompany (demo applications) is a sample/demo simplified enterprise application suite, single tenant, SaaS solution deployed on Windows Azure and som...
Just released our .NET Business Applications Technology Guide (MS PRESS eBook)
What is this guide / eBook about? UPDATE - Dec.2013 This same Guide has been published now as free MS PRESS eBook, here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2013/11/13/free-ebook-net-technology-guide-for-business-applications.aspx --- A few days ago (late June 2013, at BUILD) we released a new paper showing a global and broad picture of Microsoft development technologies for custom LOB applications. Download: http://www.microsoft.com/net/nettechnologyguidance The Microsoft portfolio of development technologies is pretty large and it's applicable to many software development scenarios across diff...