Using OneDrive files from a Windows 8 Store app 26 March 2014 Diederik-Krols WinRT This article explains how to let a Windows Store app manage a list of files in a working folder on the user’s OneDrive, without continuously opening file pickers. Some apps need to store more personal user data than the roaming folder can handle. A folder on the user’s OneDrive is a nice place to st... [More]
AngularJS: Async Callbacks and the Angular Execution Context 20 March 2014 Lander-Verhack I was playing around with a Angular and Google Maps, and suddenly the world fell apart. Ok, maybe I'm a bit dramatic here, but angular behaved quite a bit different than I expected. This is a simplified version of the code that cracked the foundations of my beloved planet:$scope.geoCode = function (... [More]
Challenges in combining multiple data sets in PowerBI 20 March 2014 Nico-Jacobs Business Intelligence, Power BI, Office Relationship between house price and income A few days ago the media reported that Belgium was amongst one of the most expensive European countries to buy a house, if you compare the house price relative to the income. A few days ago I wrote a blog post on how we could analyze the Belgian house mar... [More]
New version of U2U CAML Query Builder 11 March 2014 Michael-Van-Wesemael CAML, Office 365, SharePoint The original U2U CAML Query Builder has been around for many years, and is being used by many SharePoint professionals. So we thought it was time for giving it some small changes, and bringing it to version 4.2.0.0. The query builder now uses CSOM for connecting to SharePoint, and it also allows con... [More]
Analyze the Belgian house market… yourself 07 March 2014 Nico-Jacobs Office, Power BI, Business Intelligence From time to time articles get published about the evolution of the Belgian house market. Interesting to learn about general trends but… sometimes you whished these analyses would be more tailored to your situation. It’s nice to know that prices for villas have stabilized last year, but does this tr... [More]
A Floating Behavior for Windows 8 Store apps 06 March 2014 Diederik-Krols WinRT In my previous article I introduced a Floating Control for Windows Store apps, and hinted that it could be rewritten as a Behavior. Well, that’s exactly what I did. This article describes the Floating Behavior: it allows a ContentControl to be dragged around the screen through mouse or touch, while ... [More]