Cesar de la Torre
Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.
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My TechEd 2013 U.S. breakout-session demos
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 “MY EVENTS” sample application we created a few months ago, but we added the following changes: - 1. Completely new ASP.NET MVC SINGLE-PAGE-APPLICATION (instead of a plain MVC app like we had in 1.0): In this SPA (Single Page Application) we’re using the Durandal JavaScript framew...
Developing Apps for Office and SharePoint 2013: Technology choices
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 announced this release of the tools: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/03/04/now-available-office-developer-tools-for-visual-studio-2012.aspx With the SharePoint and Office 2013 release we have quite a few new options when developing applications for SharePoint and O...
Bird’s -eye view of Microsoft ‘Modern-Trend’ Technologies
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 at Microsoft. A higher res PDF version is also available. The areas that it is missing are about Server Products, like Windows Server, SQL Server, System Center, etc. which are also key for Microsoft. (I guess the guy who did this wanted to focus on the most modern area f...
Developing Apps for Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013
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 a common approach for extending Office and SharePoint. It brings the value of apps we know on devices to the productivity applications you use on a daily basis. This new apps model is built on web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST, OData, and OAuth. If you’re a web deve...
Storyboarding “MY EVENTS” Modern App
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, or phone applications, and link the storyboard to a work item stored in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012. For the “MY EVENTS” Modern App, I created a few storyboards for basic scenarios and screens. It is very simple and easy to do it, using Power Po...
Setting the sample ‘MY EVENTS’ modern application up & running
Setting the ‘MY EVENTS’ demo app up and running This demo app (MY EVENTS) is the one we made and showed in the Visual Studio 2012 Launch keynote (Modern Apps keynote), in September 12th 2012: http://www.visualstudiolaunch.com/vs2012vle/Home The main goal of this sample modern application is to provide a sample app where you can see most of the new technologies related to Visual Studio 2012, in a practical way. Application context: The context is about an events/conferences management system called “My Events”, with many different scenarios and client apps de...
Microsoft Platform Day – Developing LOB apps with Microsoft Platform (Milan June 13th, Madrid June 21st & Mexico city June 28th)
We are delivering the Microsoft Platform Day, “Developing LOB (Line Of Business) apps with the Microsoft Platform”, in Milan (Italy) on June 13th, Madrid (Spain) June 21st & Mexico city (Mexico) June 28th. Here I post a few pictures and also the URL to the presentations: Presentations: http://sdrv.ms/LX5FlN Around 130 attendees in Madrid. View from the Real Madrid stadium while staying at the Coffee break:
Creating several Entity Diagrams within a single Model in EF 5.0 and Visual Studio 2012
This feature is killer and it’s been waited for long time by any developer or company who use EF visual models with a lot of entities. Think about a model where you have hundreds of entities.., opening a single diagram with 200 entities doesn’t make sense and it is too slow and kind of unmanageable. Now, with EF 5.0 and Visual Studio 2012, you can have many diagrams that visually Split the same entity model. This is cool, even more than the coloring feature. For instance, in the model below, I have selected a group of entities (entities related with ‘Customer’), then you right-click on any of those entities ...
Coloring Entities with EF 5.0 RC and VS.2012 RC
In Visual Studio 2012 RC (the Release Candidate was released last week on May 31st 2012) and Entity Framework 5.0 RC, the Entity Designer surface of EF MODEL/DATABASE FIRST, now supports entity shape coloring. This is really nice to differentiate categories, like when you have several AGGREGATES within your MODEL, etc. Here is a sneak peak of what we have in the RC: On the other hand, when dealing with DDD Domain Models (Domain Driven Design approach), I think EF CODE-FIRST fits much better (No anemic-domain-model, entity classes can have their own logic in a straightforward way, just adding methods, etc....