Cesar de la Torre

Setting the sample ‘MY EVENTS’ modern application up & running

September 17, 2012 Sep 17, 2012 09/17/12

Cesar De la Torre

(image)       (image) 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 ...

Microsoft Platform Day – Developing LOB apps with Microsoft Platform (Milan June 13th, Madrid June 21st & Mexico city June 28th)

June 25, 2012 Jun 25, 2012 06/25/12

Cesar De la Torre

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   (image)  ...

Creating several Entity Diagrams within a single Model in EF 5.0 and Visual Studio 2012

June 3, 2012 Jun 3, 2012 06/3/12

Cesar De la Torre

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 ...

Coloring Entities with EF 5.0 RC and VS.2012 RC

June 3, 2012 Jun 3, 2012 06/3/12

Cesar De la Torre

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 ...

Creating a Windows 8 Release Preview Master VHD

May 31, 2012 May 31, 2012 05/31/12

Cesar De la Torre

You can install Windows 8 into a .VHD following a similar process (like this post I wrote) than when you install it on a raw hard drive, but if you want to have a clean master .vhd which is not related to any specific installation and machine name, and you want to re-use this master .vhd in many machines over time, then the following procedure...

Entity Framework Code First DbContext and SQL Azure Connection Fault Handling

April 24, 2012 Apr 24, 2012 04/24/12

Cesar De la Torre

(image)   (image) I’ve been working migrating an App to Windows Azure and SQL Azure. This app is using Entity Framework 4.3 Code First and DbContext. One important point is related to the SQL Azure Conection Fault Handling. If you don’t know about this topic, you can read this explanatory info: http://social.technet.microsoft...

Domain Driven Design (DDD) & Visual Studio 11 Beta ALM, great fit!

April 6, 2012 Apr 6, 2012 04/6/12

Cesar De la Torre

  Domain Driven Design (DDD) is especially suitable for creating long-term LOB Apps, but usually, DDD is presented as a very patterns & architecture related subject (topics like Bounded-Contexts, Domain-Models, patterns like Repository, Aggregate, Value-Object, etc.), like we actually did in our ‘DDD Patterns Guidance with .NET...

Installing Windows 8 Release Preview on a .VHD file from a bootable USB-Pen

February 29, 2012 Feb 29, 2012 02/29/12

Cesar De la Torre

** May 31st 2012 – UPDATE TO WINDOWS 8 RELEASE PREVIEW ** There are quite a few steps to do, so I’ll write it down for my records. Specifically, I have installed the Windows 8 Release Preview on a on a Samsung Slate Series 7 Tablet, but on a .VHD with native Boot: (image) For more info about .VHD with Native Boot, see (Updated: May 31...

CQRS BUS and Windows Azure technologies

February 22, 2012 Feb 22, 2012 02/22/12

Cesar De la Torre

CQRS has several internal patterns and objects types like Commands, CommandHandlers, Events, EventHandlers, and a few others. In the following diagram I show a basic diagram positioning those topics: (image) I am not going to explain CQRS philosophy here, as you can read about it in many posts from Greg Young, Udi Dahan, Martin Fowler, etc...

Scoping CQRS and Event-Sourcing Guidance Project

January 12, 2012 Jan 12, 2012 01/12/12

Cesar De la Torre

I am collaborating with the patterns & practices team. We are considering doing a guidance project on implementing systems using the Command & Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) approach. This is not going to be a framework or reusable components. We are positioning this project as a learning journey and envision providing an ...