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My continued analysis of the Microsoft Codename “Social Analytics” Team’s VancouverWindows8 dataset shows a substantial number of blog Posts and a few Comment, Reply, Question, Answer, and Like DataItemTypes included with a preponderance of Tweets and Retweets. As a result, I added a ContentItemType ID column to the DataGrid control and enabled ...

A compendium of Windows Azure, SQL Azure Database, AppFabric, Windows Azure Platform Appliance and other cloud-computing articles. • Update 11/7/2011 10:30 AM PST: Added final group of articles marked •. Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles ...

My Problems Browsing Codename “Social Analytics” Collections with Popular OData Browsers post of 11/4/2011 described issues that occurred while browsing or attempting to browse the Codename “Social Analytics” project’s OData collections with three free OData browsers. On 11/5/2011, I received this tweet from Richard Orr of the Social Analytics ...

Due to personal obligations (moving away from Seattle) it is with sadness that I’m announcing that I’m leaving Microsoft.  My last day at Microsoft will be January 21.  This will be the last post on this blog.  I will be commencing to blog at EricWhite.com/blog.  Here is what I'm planning for the near future on my ...

A compendium of Windows Azure, Windows Azure Platform Appliance, SQL Azure Database, AppFabric and other cloud-computing articles.    Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Drive, Table and Queue Services ...

Tables are a feature in Open XML spreadsheets that allow you to interact with data more like a database.  You can select a region and convert it to a table.  Most Excel aficionados are familiar with this feature.  It is very useful.   In a previous post, Using LINQ to Query Excel Tables, I presented some code that allows you ...

Windows Azure, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this daily series.   Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Drive, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database, Codename ...

A grammar is a device to define syntax for a language.  A grammar is made up of rules, sometimes called productions.  Each rule defines a symbol, when can then be further used in other rules.  Grammars are not hard to understand; most developers instinctively understand grammars when they see them.  When you learn a new ...

Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlen appeared in a 00:22:41 Channel9 The Archivist: Your friendly neighborhood tweet archiver video segment, in which the pair explained the the objectives, structure, and data flow of their Azure-based The Archivist application for Mix Online Labs on 6/28/2010: The Archivist is a new lab/website from Mix Online ...

Windows Azure, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this daily series.   Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Drive, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database, Codename ...