In Data Explorer, you do not always have to pull stuff in from external sources. You can write text and treat it as a data source or you can just write expressions in the formula bar. In this post we will play with some of the ways you can create data...

One of the things I really like about our bits is the fact that I can build little "libraries" by example. In this case I wanted to create an RSS Reader, a library we should have but do not yet have. We can use our existing capabilities, however, to...

When we did the demo at PASS we were showing the cloud experience. In my last post I had a video of one of our earlier iterations on the Montego client - the mashup component of Data Explorer. This next post shows a little bit about how you can reference...

Earlier this year (when we were still the Montego Project... i.e. before we become Microsoft Codename Data Explorer) we started with building out a client experience over our runtime. We still have both the client and the cloud service but we only...

14 months ago… It was 14 months ago that a bunch of us were sitting in a conference room with Dave Campbell reviewing some things he had been thinking about and some stuff we had been playing with. Our team had been sitting with some internal...

3 Years... that's right, three years since I posted on this blog. Wow, talk about not having much to talk about. Well... I am pretty excited about the stuff we are doing now and am eager to start talking about it. I have been chomping at the bit for...