PDC Essencials - Buenos Aires

Hoy junto a Julian Dominguez estuvimos presentando en la edición local de la PDC  los nuevos controles Ribbon y Data Grid para WPF, tal como prometimos a continuación podrán encontrar la solución de ejemplo que usamos en la charla como así también algunos links con recursos para que puedan seguir ahondando en el tema. WPF Toolkit patterns [...]

Windows Azure @ PDC Buenos Aires

It’s been two weeks already that we’ve got back from LA after attending PDC. Lots of things announced there. Microsoft Argentina organized the local-mini version of PDC. I will be there showing Windows Azure with Edgardo. The talk will be mainly demos (as usual and explain some concepts around Windows Azure. You can register here (it [...]

Hyper-V Server: First steps and troubleshooting

It’s been a few weeks since its release but I finally managed to put my hands on to Hyper-V Server. I was very curious about it: A free operating system released by Microsoft working only as an HyperVisor it makes wonder about a lot of things. Also recently I’ve been working with VMWare ESX Server [...]

Cells on Camp 08: Mendoza

Like I mentioned before, I participated on another Microsoft Universidades event here in Argentina. This time I visited the City of Mendoza, at the Universidad Tecnologica Nacional. The event was mainly organized by an old Student Partner collegue Fernando Hualpa together with Ángel Arcoraci and Marcelo Quevedo. On the Microsoft side, I made the [...]

Singularity 2.0 has been released!

Singluarity RDK 2.0 has been released!!! You can find it as usual @ http://www.codeplex.com/singularity

How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on Vista x64/x86

I followed the steps provided by Bamboo Nation to deploy WSS 3.0 SP1 on my Windows Vista laptop and I got it running in 15 minutes! http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/bambooteamblog/archive/2008/05/21/how-to-install-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-sp1-on-vista-x64-x86.aspx Great work guys! Hope It help others too.

How To: Load modules on demand that have dependencies using Composite WPF (Prism)

The Composite Application Guidance for WPF - June 2008 release brings out-of-the-box support to load modules on demand. The only thing that you need to do is set the StartupLoaded property of the module to false. This feature is provided by the following Module Enumerators classes: The DirectoryLookupModuleEnumerator class that discovers modules in assemblies stored in a particular [...]

@augustoalvarez: Twitted

Ok, for several weeks now I’ve been a twitter user. It started when I saw a little sketch about the evolution of blogs. Sounds like a discuss topic isn’t? This "twittering world" is something that got me thinking: why it does exist and why so many people us it?. I’m sure that can be a [...]

Getting certified: MCITP DBA

Since forever I’ve been excited about taking a Microsoft’s certification: the different types of certification you can get within Microsoft technologies, the deep knowledge and experience, and the recognition value were some of the things that always made me feel like good reasons to get certified. But I never thought that my first achievement regarding to [...]

Azure Services Platform - Passive Federation & Access Control #2

In the previous post I introduced a scenario where you can use .NET Services Access Control and Windows LiveID to delegate authentication and authorization. In this post we will go through the different pieces needed in the application to perform authorization checks. First thing will be configure the passive federation using Geneva on the application [...]

SQL Services

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.Net Services

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Windows Azure

  Windows Azure is part of the Azure Services Platform which I introduced in my previous post. This new platform will allow us (Developers) to run your applications directly in the cloud by hosting them in Windows Azure. This means that not only Web apps can be developed for Windows Azure but also background processes are also [...]