Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

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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...

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...

Just released V1.0 of our DDD NLayered Architecture Guide/Book and Sample-App (Free eBook)

November 30, 2010 Nov 30, 2010 11/30/10
Cesar De la Torre
[UPDATED - April 2017] - IMPORTANT:  For up-to-date architecture and development guidance using .NET (i.e. .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Docker containers, etc.) including Domain-Driven Design patterns, microservices architectures and other .NET related technologies like Xamarin for mobile apps check this landing page pointing to multiple NEW ...

Developing and Deploying Java-Tomcat apps into Windows Azure

September 12, 2010 Sep 12, 2010 09/12/10
Cesar De la Torre
(image) As you may know, Windows Azure is a multi-platform environment, so we can run many other languages/platforms other than .NET, like Java, PHP, Ruby, etc., and even using a whole Web-AppServer like Apache Tomcat, a DBMS like MySQL, and using IDEs like ECLIPSE. You can get more info about this here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure...

Importing/Exporting data to SQL Azure databases using BCP and SQL Scripts

June 4, 2010 Jun 4, 2010 06/4/10
Cesar De la Torre
(image) The basic way: SQL Scripts + BCP There are also other methods you can use to export/import or even sync data like SQL Azure Migration Wizard, SQL Azure Data Sync, and even SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services). Also, instead of creating database schema using SQL Scripts, another new option is using the new DACPAC (Data Tier Packages...

Azure Metro Training in Madrid (16th April 2009) Material

April 20, 2009 Apr 20, 2009 04/20/09
Cesar De la Torre
Last week, we delivered a nice Azure training (One condensed full day about AZURE platform). Sorry, but everything is in Spanish (Agenda & Presentations), as we delivered it in Spanish. So, down below you can read the agenda and the Presentations are posted in my SKYDRIVE, as well: SKYDRIVE location (Presentations): http://cid-...