Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

New Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update – News in SharePoint development

March 3, 2014 Mar 3, 2014 03/3/14
Cesar De la Torre
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) (image) Apps for Office ...

Announcing The New Roslyn powered .NET Framework Reference Source

February 24, 2014 Feb 24, 2014 02/24/14
Cesar De la Torre
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....

MyCompany Demo Apps – Extended info and related sessions (DemoScripts and PPT/decks)

December 12, 2013 Dec 12, 2013 12/12/13
Cesar De la Torre
---- [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 (...

Just released our .NET Business Applications Technology Guide (MS PRESS eBook)

July 11, 2013 Jul 11, 2013 07/11/13
Cesar De la Torre
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 (image) --- A few days ago (late June 2013, at BUILD) we released a new paper showing a global ...

My TechEd 2013 U.S. breakout-session demos

June 3, 2013 Jun 3, 2013 06/3/13
Cesar De la Torre
Related to the session I delivered at TechEd 2013 North America, I’m using a sample application we created called “MY CONFERENCES”. This is the session at TechEd U.S. (New Orleans): https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/DEV-B204#fbid=L6pa5lhw3Vn  This sample application is really the v2.0 or evolution of the...

Developing Apps for Office and SharePoint 2013: Technology choices

March 3, 2013 Mar 3, 2013 03/3/13
Cesar De la Torre
Today, March 4th, 2013, Microsoft is announcing the availability of the final version (RTW) of Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, and a new roll up of the improvements to “Napa” since Preview 2. You can check that out at S. Somasegar’s blog (corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft), who just ...

Bird’s -eye view of Microsoft ‘Modern-Trend’ Technologies

January 22, 2013 Jan 22, 2013 01/22/13
Cesar De la Torre
I found this infographic in Microsoft. It is quite global and is lacking of a few important areas, but still, it is very interesting and up to date. It shows from a high level point of view what Microsoft is related to, whether it's search, cloud, social, NUI, gaming, developer tools, phones, Windows, Kinect - there is something for everyone ...

Developing Apps for Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013

November 13, 2012 Nov 13, 2012 11/13/12
Cesar De la Torre
Starting this week, at the ‘SharePoint Conference 2012’, we have released new versions of the Microsoft Tools for developing Apps for SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013. This is a summary that I created about it. What are ‘apps’ for Office and SharePoint? Apps for Office and SharePoint are based on a new application model which shares ...

Storyboarding “MY EVENTS” Modern App

October 8, 2012 Oct 8, 2012 10/8/12
Cesar De la Torre
You can quickly illustrate a new or modified application interface by using PowerPoint Storyboarding, which is available with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. With this tool you can build a storyboard from a collection of pre-defined storyboard shapes and capture existing user interfaces. Also, you can customize the layouts of your web, client, ...