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Architects Forum XXV – N-Layer DDD Architecture and .NET 4.0 (March 24th 2010)

2010-03-16T16:48:15Z

On March 24th 2010 we’ll deliver in Madrid an special Architects Forum edition where we’ll present a first draft/beta of our ‘ N-Layer DDD Architecture and .NET 4.0 Guide ’ that we’ve been working on during the last several months!! We’ll give you a book (to all attendees) with a printed draft/beta version of this proposed Architecture. Note that this proposed Architecture is based on DDD ( Domain Driven Design ) Architectural Styles and SOLID principles ( S ingle Responsability Principle, O pen...(read more)

SILVERLIGHT 4.0 RC and Silverlight for Windows Phone 7.0 presented at MIX2010

2010-03-16T09:23:10Z

SILVERLIGHT 4.0 RC and Silverlight for Windows Phone 7.0 · Microsoft delivers the premier mobile application development experience . - Today, with the combination of Windows Phone 7 Series, Silverlight, the XNA Framework, Visual Studio, Expression Blend and Windows Phone Marketplace, developers have the richest, most productive development tools and platform for creating and deploying high performance, compelling mobile applications. - Microsoft offers a familiar and flexible development experience...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 & .NET 4.0 Training Kit available for download

2009-10-22T13:13:24Z

So, it’s been released an updated version of the Visual Studio 2010 & .NET 4.0 Training Kit, compatible with the new VS.2010 BETA2. Here is the URL: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=752CB725-969B-4732-A383-ED5740F02E93&displaylang=en...(read more)

My new Architecture Journal Article!!: “Model-Driven-SOA with ‘OSLO’”

2009-10-05T21:52:19Z

Cool!. I just got published my article regarding Model-Driven-SOA with ‘OSLO’ , in ‘The Architecture Journal’. :-) You can see it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa699436.aspx Or you can download the whole Magazine from this post’s attachment. Take into account that OSLO is a beta and it is starting its first steps, so I’m basically talking about the future, in this article. How it could be regarding SOA and MDD using “OSLO”....(read more)

Architect Forum XXIV – RIA Architecture, ‘Silverlight 3.0’ & ‘.NET RIA Services’

2009-09-27T16:13:44Z

Architect Forum XXIV – RIA Architecture, ‘Silverlight 3.0’ & ‘.NET RIA Services’ Here I post some info & Presentations about the Architect Forum we delivered last week in Madrid (Sept. 23rd). All presentations are in Spanish: http://cid-c537c2af47f728a0.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Msft%20Dpe%20Spain%20Architects%20Events/2009%20-%20Arch.Forum%20XXIV%20-%20RIA%20Silverlight%203.0%20%5E0%20.NET%20RIA%20Services We had around 100 attendees in our room (Within the huge SIMO 2009 Expo...(read more)

Using VSTS 2010 Beta1 Team Explorer and TFS in CODEPLEX

2009-08-28T12:37:00Z

I'm actually setting up an environment around that (VSTS 2010 Beta1 Team Explorer and TFS in CODEPLEX), and there is a problem when trying to connect your VSTS.2010 client to the TFS in CODEPLEX. But there's a workaround you can follow here: (Thanks Aaron) http://blogs.msdn.com/ablock/archive/2009/05/20/for-tfs-2010-beta-1-resolving-tf31001-the-servicepointmanager-does-not-support-proxies-with-the-https-scheme.aspx or here, (Thanks Kirill) http://blogs.msdn.com/kirillosenkov/archive/2009...(read more)

How To Install Windows 7 From a bootable USB Drive

2009-08-14T11:16:00Z

I just wanna have this "How to" in my blog, even for myself. :-) What you need: USB Flash Drive (4GB+) Windows 7 DVD A computer running Vista / Windows 7 Step 1 - Formatting the Drive Using the command prompt, we'll use the diskpart utility. [BTW: This will erase all data on your USB drive] Plug in your USB Flash Drive Open a command prompt as administrator (Right click on Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt and select “Run as administrator” (Or type...(read more)

Workshop “Oslo” introduction: The Future about Model Driven Development (June 30th 2009)

2009-07-01T09:49:41Z

One more event!. Yesterday we delivered a nice workshop regarding Model Driven Development and “OSLO”. I talked most about MDD/MDE (Model Driven Development/Engineering), Model Drive SOA, how can be the future regarding MDD implemented with “OSLO”. Key points, risks, and long term goals and then how could everything be mapped to “OSLO”. Miguel Llopis (Developer in “OSLO” Product Group, in Microsoft corp.) explained “Oslo” design goals and then quite a few demos regarding M language, Quadrant...(read more)

WCF Load Test tool

2009-06-24T13:49:00Z

It’s been just released a few days ago to Codeplex: WCF Load Test . It looks pretty nice! :-) Project Description This tool takes a WCF trace file and a WCF client proxy, or a WCF interface contract, and generates a unit test that replays the same sequence of calls found in the trace file. The code generated is easily modifiable so that data variation can be introduced for the purpose of doing performance testing. The tool generates code for both Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008. It also...(read more)

Architect Forum XXIII – VSTS.2010 & Tools for Architects (Madrid & Barcelona)

2009-06-17T16:51:46Z

Architects Forum XXIII - Visual Studio Team System 2010 & Tools for Software Architects Here I post some info & Presentations about the Forums we just delivered in Madrid (May 28th) & Barcelona (June 16th): http://cid-c537c2af47f728a0.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Msft%20Dpe%20Spain%20Architects%20Events/2009%20-%20Arch.Forum%20-%20VSTS.2010 We had around 130 attendees in Madrid and around 90 attendees in Barcelona. And some pictures: This was the agenda...(read more)

RIA Services (Alexandria) roadmap

2009-06-14T13:03:00Z

Dinesh Kulkarni has written a nice post about RIA Services (Alexandria) roadmap: http://silverlight.net/forums/p/101160/230835.aspx#230835 So, RIA Services milestones are: - July 2009 CTP - PDC 2009 Beta (November) - First part of 2010: RTW (Like .NET 4.0) Another key point is that we might provide support for .NET 3.5 SP1 in the server (where you run RIA Services), not just .NET 4.0. I think it is a good point for many customers who are not so agile to rapidly change to .NET 4.0. I just want to...(read more)

Our event: ‘Biztalk Server 2009 news, ESB 2.0 Guidance & WCF LOB SDK Event’ content

2009-06-02T16:45:00Z

Today, we just run a Workshop regarding Biztalk Server 2009 news, ESB 2.0 Guidance & WCF LOB SDK . I post the presentations here, so any attendee can get it. You can grab it from the following SKYDRIVE: http://cid-c537c2af47f728a0.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Msft%20Dpe%20Spain%20Architects%20Events/2009%20-%20Biztalk%202009%20-%20ESB%202.0%20-%20WCF%20LOB%20SDK BTW, this content is in Spanish, as the event was delivered in Spanish. :-)...(read more)

We have released a public Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 !!

2009-05-20T13:57:00Z

Cool!, So we have just released a public Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 and, of course, VSTS 2010 and Team Foundation Server (Beta1), as well. MSDN subscribers can actually download it today from MSDN site, but you can also install it from this public URL: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=85520793-68fc-4361-a8b6-dc2cff49c8d2&displaylang=en...(read more)

"Non Windows users" in AzMan (Authorization Manager)

2009-05-09T17:16:00Z

AZMAN background AzMan ( Authorization Manager ) is the best Microsoft technology to implement role & permissions based security within your applications. It exists as part of Windows Server (and Windows "workstation"), since versions Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. In Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista AzMan version, SQL Server support for Stores was added (formerly we could store our metadata just on Active Directory, ADAM, or XML files ), but the apps users had to be Windows...(read more)

How to install a Loopback Adapter in Windows 7

2009-05-06T10:24:00Z

It turns out that adding a Loopback adapter in Windows 7 is a little bit tricky, because we have no "Add Hardware" menu icon within Control Panel, anymore. Everything is supposed to be detected by Windows 7. (At least in current Windows 7 RC1). But if we're talking about a "Loopback Netwrok Adapter", it really cannot be detected, as it is a virtual device.. In any case, if you want to run the Wizard where you can manually add hardware, you need to start it from the COMMAND...(read more)

Using “MUrl” – A textual Oslo DSL for RESTful Clients

2009-04-20T19:23:00Z

“MUrl” is a textual DSL and runtime for interacting with REST/HTTP services. It is actually just a great Oslo-DSL sample, as you can download it (all its source code) from MSDN.com: http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/0/B/40B632EC-F201-43EE-8E29-C398A9DA8468/MUrlSample.msi As long as I know, “MUrl” has been mainly developed by Douglas Purdy . I saw his session at MIX09, which was fabulous; so now, I want to explain what “MUrl” is and how to use it. This post is, in fact, explaining most of the...(read more)

Creating a simple Textual DSL with Oslo, “M” Language, MGrammar and Intellipad

2009-04-20T17:12:00Z

I wrote a post about Oslo and “M” Language and how you can use it to model data. But in that case, we were not using our own custom Textual DSL, we were using just “M” Language. You can see that post here: Starting using OSLO, “M” Language, Oslo Repository and Intellipad http://blogs.msdn.com/cesardelatorre/archive/2009/04/20/starting-using-oslo-m-language-oslo-repository-and-intellipad.aspx What I’m going to create now, is a Custom Textual DSL sample (DSL == Domain Specific Language) , based on...(read more)

Starting using OSLO, “M” Language, Oslo Repository and Intellipad

2009-04-20T13:37:00Z

Microsoft “OSLO” is Microsoft’s next generation of Modeling Platform, Tools and DSLs. OSLO is basically composed by: - “M” Language (For Data Modeling and Textual DSLs ) - QUADRANT (Visual Tool for Visual Modeling) - Oslo Repository (Based on SQL Server. IT is the Oslo’s data store, for meta-data and data itself) You can actually research about Microsoft OSLO using the published “Oslo” SDK January 2009 CTP. This is the version I’m using for this post. Download - Microsoft "Oslo" SDK - January...(read more)

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

2009-04-20T09:41:00Z

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-c537c2af47f728a0.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Msft%20Dpe%20Spain%20Architects%20Events/2009%20-%20Azure%20Metro%20Training Marzo de 2009 AZURE - METRO TRAINING ¿Cloud...(read more)

IE8 release version ships during MIX09

2009-03-20T17:43:00Z

We have just released the final version of IE8!. Here you have the address where you can download it: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx...(read more)

Silverlight 3.0 news disclosed today at MIX09 in Las Vegas!!!

2009-03-18T19:00:23Z

So, I’ve just been attending MIX09 keynote (ScottGu, etc.), and… as you’ll discover, Silverlight 3.0 rocks!!! :-) Here you have some of what we’re disclosing today about SL3.0: SILVERLIGHT 3.0 MEDIA & GRAPHICS GPU hardware acceleration!! Opt-in feature per element Codecs (H.264/AAC/MP4, VC1, etc.) Perspective 3D Bitmap & pixel API Pixel Shader effects !! Deep Zoom improvements App. Development Deep linking, navigation and SEA Improved text quality Multi-touch support 100+ controls available...(read more)

How to create a Bootable DVD (Windows 7 or Windows Vista)

2009-03-08T19:34:00Z

Sometimes you'd want to install Windows from a bootable DVD but you just have all the Windows files... I mean, in my case I've got Windows 7 build 7048 (beta drop, but it does not matter), but I currently don't have its related ISO image. So, if I want to install a plain new Windows 7 from scratch (booting & installing from a DVD), guess what you need?, right..., I want to create my own bootable Windows DVD. In order to do that, we can use several Microsoft tools that come in AIK...(read more)

Microsoft Event – ‘Saving Costs with Microsoft development platform’

2009-03-02T11:58:15Z

Next March 11th we’ll deliver in Madrid (NH Eurobuilding Hotel) an event about how to save costs in these uncertain economic time . We’ll see why Microsoft is more productive and has better TCO than competing technologies like Java. Keep in mind that the audience should be ITDMs , I mean, IT Directors, development area directors, or Enterprise Architects who are technology decission makers, etc. This is not a very technical event but a strategic event . Down below you have the invitation and agenda...(read more)

IE8 RC1 is now available for public download

2009-01-27T10:04:21Z

IE8 Release Candidate is available for public download today in 25 languages for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server customers. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8 Please download it and try it out . We welcome your feedback !...(read more)

RIA-Silverlight and Web applications Architecture pocket-guides from Microsoft Patterns & Practices

2009-01-13T12:12:00Z

Microsoft Patterns & Practices have several nice application architecture pocket-guides about RIA & Silverlight and Web applications. RIA-Silverlight pocket guide: http://www.codeplex.com/AppArch/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=19799 http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/11/24/ria-architecture-pocket-guide.aspx Web pocket guide: http://www.codeplex.com/AppArch/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=19802 http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/11/24/web-application-architecture...(read more)