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#DAX – Joining to a Slowly Changing Dimension
Microsoft Office for iPad engineers talk history, hint about futures
Extension methods, explicitly implemented interfaces and collection initializers
Azure Automation – Reducing Cost
Building Windows Phone 8.1 Apps in HTML
My RavenDB Conference presentations
#1,046 – Setting the Background Color of a Cell in a Grid
Windows 8.1 Store, Azure Mobile Services & Offline Data
A sample of Onion Architecture with ASP.NET Identity
RavenConf, day 1

#DAX – Joining to a Slowly Changing Dimension

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 10:03 AM PDT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/darrengosbell/archive/2014/04/09/dax-ndash-joining-to-a-slowly-changing-dimension.aspx (http://geekswithblogs.net/darrengosbell/archive/2014/04/09/dax-ndash-joining-to-a-slowly-changing-dimension.aspx)The following is one of the scenarios that I showed during my "Drop your DAX" talk at SQL Saturday

Microsoft Office for iPad engineers talk history, hint about futures

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 08:31 AM PDT

In a Reddit AMA, Microsoft's Office for iPad engineers tackle some questions about the new suite Microsoft introduced a couple weeks ago....

Extension methods, explicitly implemented interfaces and collection initializers

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 05:43 AM PDT

This post is the answer to yesterday's brainteaser (http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2014/04/07/quick-brainteaser.aspx). As a reminder, I was asking what purpose this code might have: public static class Extensions

Azure Automation – Reducing Cost

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 04:13 AM PDT

The idea behind this is extremely simple: to run a deployment machine in Azure that will be used to deploy updates to production.

Building Windows Phone 8.1 Apps in HTML

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 03:58 AM PDT

Last week at the BUILD (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/events/build/) conference, we announced (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/04/02/visual-studio-2013-update-2-rc-universal-projects-for-windows-and-windows-phone.aspx) that you can now build apps for Windows Phone 8.1 using HTML, CSS,

My RavenDB Conference presentations

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 02:08 AM PDT

RavenDB 3.0 Keynote (https://www.slideshare.net/ayenderahien/keynote-33275557) from Oren Eini (http://www.slideshare.net/ayenderahien)

#1,046 – Setting the Background Color of a Cell in a Grid

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 12:20 AM PDT

There are several different ways to set the background color of a cell within a Grid. They include: Setting the Background property of the element

Windows 8.1 Store, Azure Mobile Services & Offline Data

Posted: 07 Apr 2014 11:20 PM PDT

Following up on that post from yesterday the other thing that I noticed with Mobile Services yesterday was the new support for

A sample of Onion Architecture with ASP.NET Identity

Posted: 07 Apr 2014 11:19 PM PDT

I was working on a new ASP.NET web application. In this application, I was trying to use Onion Architecture (http://jeffreypalermo.com/blog/the-onion-architecture-part-1/). The