Principal Program Manager at the .NET product Group (Microsoft Corp in Redmond, Seattle). Focus on Machine Learning .NET (ML.NET), .NET Core, Microservices based architecture, Docker Containers, Azure services.
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[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/
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At the Visual Studio 2013 Launch Event (...
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...
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 ...
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.com/wiki/...
EF 4.1 Update 1 (EF 4.1.1) has been released a few days ago.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2011/07/25/ef-4-1-update-1-released.aspx
The important point is also EF 4.1.1 Code First Migrations August 2011 CTP Released:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2011/07/27/code-first-migrations-august-2011-ctp-released.aspx
This is really ...
I write this post in order to get some feedback regarding what I currently think about EF 4.1 Data Annotations and how it fits in DDD Architectural styles.
About DDD Architectural styles, here it is our Architecture Guide (Though we are actually writing its second edition, adding EF 4.1 Code-First approach). But most DDD Architectural ...
For me, it means fundamentally ‘Code First approach’, which is actually the best approach for DDD (Domain Driven Design) architectural styles (for your Domain Entity Model). So now, it is ready for production developments!!.
Release to Web (RTW) of Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 (EF 4.1). This is a fully supported, go-live ...
The underlying platform within SQL Azure consists of many instances of SQL Server, each of which is managed by the SQL Azure fabric. The SQL Azure fabric is a distributed computing system composed of tightly integrated networks, servers, and storage. It enables automatic failover, load balancing, and automatic replication ...
Currently, when you try to use Entity Framework STE (Self Tracking Entities) and AppFabric-Cache (aka. “Velocity”), you’ll get a runtime error.
I mean, what we’re trying to do is trying to serialize STE objects within AppFabric-Cache. For instance, we could try to execute the following code, using AppFabric Cache API: var ...
REPEATING IT IN BARCELONA!! :-) --> (May 13th 2010)
We really had a lot of requests asking for re-delivering this event in Barcelona. It also was a great success in Madrid last March 24th 2010 (almost 200 attendees and people really liked it). So, there we go, we’ll repeat it in Barcelona!!
On May 13th 2010 we’ll deliver in Barcelona ...