Cesar da la Torre Blog

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

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:48:15 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:23:10 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:13:24 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:52:19 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:13:44 GMT

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...(read more)

Using VSTS 2010 Beta1 Team Explorer and TFS in CODEPLEX

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:37:00 GMT

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: ...(read more)

How To Install Windows 7 From a bootable USB Drive

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:16:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:49:41 GMT

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...(read more)

WCF Load Test tool

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:49:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:51:46 GMT

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...(read more)

RIA Services (Alexandria) roadmap

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:03:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:45:00 GMT

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...(read more)

We have released a public Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 !!

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:57:00 GMT

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:...(read more)

"Non Windows users" in AzMan (Authorization Manager)

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:16:00 GMT

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...(read more)

How to install a Loopback Adapter in Windows 7

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:24:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:23:00 GMT

“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...(read more)

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

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:12:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:37:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:41:00 GMT

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...(read more)

IE8 release version ships during MIX09

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:43:00 GMT

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!!!

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:00:23 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:34:00 GMT

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....(read more)

Microsoft Event – ‘Saving Costs with Microsoft development platform’

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:58:15 GMT

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...(read more)

IE8 RC1 is now available for public download

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:04:21 GMT

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

Cesar de la Torre - BLOG — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:12:00 GMT

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...(read more)