Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

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.NET, Cloud and Mobile Events in Argentina and Chile – Content

September 26, 2016 Sep 26, 2016 09/26/16
Cesar De la Torre
Last week (Sept. 19-22 2016) I delivered a similar event in Buenos Aires and in Santiago the Chile, afterwards. Here I post the agenda I delivered, a few pictures about it plus the decks I used about it. Morning Event – Developing microservices in the Cloud with .NET, Docker and Microsoft Azure Service Fabric Related technologies...

.NET Core, .NET Framework, Xamarin – The “WHAT and WHEN to use it”

June 27, 2016 Jun 27, 2016 06/27/16
Cesar De la Torre
I’m writing this blog post about “.NET end-to-end” now that we just released the .NET Core Platform 1.0 RTM, so it’s clear “who is who” and “when to use what”. It’s a long post but I think it’s good to have available a single post about .NET end-to-end. .NET is nowadays a development-platform running across many OS-...

Using Azure Functions from Xamarin Mobile Apps

May 17, 2016 May 17, 2016 05/17/16
Cesar De la Torre
I was testing Azure Functions by creating a simple proof of concept with a Xamarin.Forms client and since there’s not much info about “using Azure Functions from Xamarin” I thought it was a good idea to publish this Getting Started or Walkthrough in my MSDN blog. Make no mistake about it, you consume an Azure Function from a Xamarin ...

Solving issue with VS Android Emulator, Xamarin apps and Intel Skylake processor (i.e. when using a Microsoft Surface Book i7, Surface Pro 4, etc.)

February 6, 2016 Feb 6, 2016 02/6/16
Cesar De la Torre
I got a Surface Book (comes with the new Intel i7 Skylake) a few days ago and I was experiencing a very weird issue when running and/or debugging Xamarin apps on the Visual Studio Android Emulator.. Basically, VS couldn’t debug/attach but I was not getting any application error, neither.. You can see the experience in the following recorded...

MyShuttle.biz and Cross-platform Mobile Development of native apps for iOS, Android and Windows with .NET and Xamarin

December 1, 2014 Dec 1, 2014 12/1/14
Cesar De la Torre
      [**NEW!! - Updated on March 2015 - Compatible with VS 2015 CTP 6 **] This blog post (focusing on native apps development) is the third post of a blog posts serie covering the different scenarios implemented by the MyShuttle.biz apps. 1. Blog Post: Global Intro of the MyShuttle.biz demo apps from Connect(); Visual Studio ...