Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

CTP3 release of Titan: CRM 4.0 “Titan” Gets Nearer to Launch!!

September 4, 2007 Sep 4, 2007 09/4/07
Cesar De la Torre
As I read in Ben's blog, we already have a new Titan's CTP. It is the CTP3!! :-) So there's no so much time until CRM 4.0 will be realeased. If you are an ISV company (Independent Software Vendor & Development company) in Spain, and you are interested in CRM 4.0 (Titan), talk with me!!. We have a new ISV-Partner program form Early-...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM vertical templates

August 21, 2007 Aug 21, 2007 08/21/07
Cesar De la Torre
Microsoft has released two Microsoft Dynamics CRM vertical templates; 'Manufacturing' and 'Municipal Goverment'.   These templates include data models, user interfaces, user roles and workflows that showcase how Microsoft Dynamics CRM is relevant to customers in these industries.    Microsoft field marketing and partner ...

CRM 4.0 (Titan) Server-Side programming: Creating custom ASPX pages and consuming Titan’s Web-Services

August 9, 2007 Aug 9, 2007 08/9/07
Cesar De la Torre
I'm doing several Titan labs (CRM 4.0 labs), so I'm going to write a posting about what I'm doing. It is always interesting archiving this kind of 'HOW TOs'.  So!, I'm gonna create a plain new custom ASPX page (using Visual Studio 2005) where we're going to allow updates to several custom entities I've got. The business purpose for ...

Tips and news about building custom Workflows in CRM 4.0 ‘Titan’

August 1, 2007 Aug 1, 2007 08/1/07
Cesar De la Torre
In TechReady5 (Seattle, July 2007), I attended a nice session about building workflows in CRM-Titan (next v4). Here I post several tips & news: Titan hosts Windows Workflow Foundation but in a different way than SharePoint 2007. Asynchronous Host- Multitenant / stateless- Scalable- Reliable- WF (Windows Workflow Foundation)- Extensibility ...

Attending at Microsoft MGX and now TechReady. We Rock!!

July 20, 2007 Jul 20, 2007 07/20/07
Cesar De la Torre
I've been attending Microsoft MGX convention during this week. It's been... how would I say..., just Impressive!! We were about 15.000 Microsoft people!!. All that people within the same building, all that people attending sessions within an Orlando's stadium. So, we were watching many internal info, FY07 results, FY08 ...

Development Layers in Dynamics AX 4.0

June 29, 2007 Jun 29, 2007 06/29/07
Cesar De la Torre
Just for my own remembering (and anyone who wants to know it), I post a table which summarizes all the development layers within Dynamics AX 4.0. It is easy for me to check my own blog. ;-) Layer Descrition ID range USR User Individual companies or companies within an Enterprise can use this layer to make customizations unique to ...

Download of Innovation Days PPTs and material

June 25, 2007 Jun 25, 2007 06/25/07
Cesar De la Torre
Here you have a URL where you can Download all the Innovation Days 2007 PPTs and material!!: http://www.microsoft.com/spain/partner/isv/innovationdays/descargas.mspx  As it's been a spanish event, all the PPTs and material are in spanish, except 'DinnerNow application sample' which is in english...

Speaker at Microsoft Innovation Days 2007 event !!

June 17, 2007 Jun 17, 2007 06/17/07
Cesar De la Torre
(image)   So!, next week I'm gonna participate in Microsoft Innovation Days 2007 event!! (Edition in Spain). We'll go to Barcelona, Madrid, Zaragoza and Sevilla. It's gonna be a bussy week!! ;-) We (Isabel Gomez and me) are going to make a session about Development in Longhorn Server (Windows Server 2008). We are going to show a demo &...

How to use CardSpace to secure web applications

May 24, 2007 May 24, 2007 05/24/07
Cesar De la Torre
Using CardSpace to secure a Web Application..., that sounds interesting... We can also use CardSpace for securing WCF-Services for SOA application, but I leave that for another posting. :-). For a Web Application, we need to implement CardSpace within the Login and registration page, because we’ll use it as an Authentication method.So, let...