Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

We have released a public Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 !!

(image) 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...

“Non Windows users” in AzMan (Authorization Manager)

(image) AzMan background AzMan (Authorization Manager) is the best Microsoft technology to implement role & permissions based security for your applications. It exists as part of Windows Server (and Windows "workstation"), since versions Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. If you want to take a look of its management tool, just run it...

How to install a Loopback Adapter in Windows 7

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 ...

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

(image) “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 ...

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

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-...

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

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), ...