Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

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Microsoft Event – ‘Saving Costs with Microsoft development platform’

March 2, 2009 Mar 2, 2009 03/2/09
Cesar De la Torre
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 ...

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

January 13, 2009 Jan 13, 2009 01/13/09
Cesar De la Torre
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=19799http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/11/24/ria-architecture-pocket-guide.aspx Web...

Windows 7 – Natively Booting from a .VHD file (Virtual PC image)

January 11, 2009 Jan 11, 2009 01/11/09
Cesar De la Torre
[Update 15 August 2009 - Tested with Windows 7 RTM final version]  The most important thing to keep in mind is that we currently (prior to Windows 7) cannot natively boot from any kind of .VHD.  Actually, I have just managed to boot from a Windows 7 installed on a new .VHD, and I installed it right from the Windows 7 DVD. ...

Attaching a .VHD (Virtual PC image) using Windows 7 capabilities

January 10, 2009 Jan 10, 2009 01/10/09
Cesar De la Torre
Windows 7 has a great and new capability which consists on  the ability to attach a VHD (Virtual PC Hard Disk image) as a  native drive. This way you could see a VHD from Windows 7 like if it were a regular hard drive. It is very useful, many times I want to get some demos or any file from within a VPC. In XP or Vista you ...