Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

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A few options for Windows Azure Storage Backup & Restore

March 12, 2011 Mar 12, 2011 03/12/11
Cesar De la Torre
(image) I just wanted to record a few options I found for Windows Azure Storage backup-restore (I’m not talking about SQL Azure, in this case). If you have any other option for this matter, please tell me and I’ll be happy to update this post. 1) Windows Azure Storage Tables backup and storage: http://tablestoragebackup.codeplex....

Typical issue‘One of the request inputs is not valid’ when Working with the Windows Azure Development Storage

March 12, 2011 Mar 12, 2011 03/12/11
Cesar De la Torre
  One of the typical issues is getting the error "One of the request inputs is not valid" that occurs when testing the application with empty tables in development storage. This is because Development Storage currently requires the schema for an entity stored in a table to have been previously defined before you are allowed to query it. ...

How to fix: Error when deploying Windows Azure App on WA SDK V1.3 – The communication object, System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel, cannot be used for communication because it is in the Faulted state.

February 6, 2011 Feb 6, 2011 02/6/11
Cesar De la Torre
  You might get this error (The communication object, System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel, cannot be used for communication because it is in the Faulted state.) if your Solution is working under any Source Control manager, like TFS, etc… Not joking… (image) (image) This is the whole exception: You might also see ...

Using Multiple Administrators WLID on a Windows Azure Subscription

February 6, 2011 Feb 6, 2011 02/6/11
Cesar De la Torre
Just a useful tip: When managing your Windows Azure subscriptions it is advantageous to have multiple service administrators manage the Hosted Services, Storage Accounts and CDN on a subscription. When a subscription is purchased through the Microsoft Online Services Portal, the service administrator specified during the subscription process ...

Just released V1.0 of our DDD NLayered Architecture Guide/Book and Sample-App (Free eBook)

November 30, 2010 Nov 30, 2010 11/30/10
Cesar De la Torre
[UPDATED - April 2017] - IMPORTANT:  For up-to-date architecture and development guidance using .NET (i.e. .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Docker containers, etc.) including Domain-Driven Design patterns, microservices architectures and other .NET related technologies like Xamarin for mobile apps check this landing page pointing to multiple NEW ...