An Office 365 App for Site Collection Provisioning in SharePoint Online 20 February 2015 Robrecht-Van-Caenegem Office 365, SharePoint Online Continuing on my previous post, I decided to create a new Office 365 app that would be able to manage site collections in SharePoint Online. When deciding to build an app that does site collection provisioning, you could chose to do this as a SharePoint App, but SharePoint Apps are typically contex... [More]
Consuming SharePoint CSOM from an Office 365 app 18 February 2015 Robrecht-Van-Caenegem Office 365, SharePoint I’ve been a C# developer for more than five years now. When SharePoint 2013 was released, I started doing development for SharePoint 2013 and later also SharePoint Online. My focus was on developing web services (in combination with the SharePoint App model), native client and mobile applications us... [More]
Using Conditional XAML in Universal Windows Apps 28 January 2015 Diederik-Krols Universal Windows Apps This article covers two solutions for working with conditional XAML in a Universal Windows app. I created a sample app that illustrates the capabilities. It’s a standard Hub based universal app with a shared project, a Windows app project, and a Windows Phone project. Each platform has its own title... [More]
Apple for Microsofties 2/2 26 January 2015 Francis In September 2015 is did a short presentation about Apple for developers in the Microsoft ecosystem. [More]
Apple for Microsofties 1/2 26 December 2014 Francis In September 2015 I did a short presentation about Apple for developers in the Microsoft ecosystem.H [More]
A Speech Dialog Box for Universal Windows Phone apps 03 December 2014 Diederik-Krols Universal Windows Apps, Windows Phone In this article I present a Universal Control to assist in text-to-speech and speech-to-text use cases on Windows Phone 8.1. The Speech Dialog Box is a templatable custom control in a shared universal project. Its default look is inspired by the Cortana UI: a text block with a microphone button atta... [More]
Integrating Cortana in your Universal Windows Phone app 21 October 2014 Diederik-Krols Universal Windows Apps, Windows Phone This article describes how to register and use voice commands to start your Universal Windows Phone app, and how to continue the conversation within your app. The attached sample app comes with the following features: It registers a set of voice commands with Cortana, it recognizes a simple ‘open ... [More]
Our Apple Swift event 13 October 2014 Peter-Himschoot On september 30th we had an event about Apple development and their new Swift language at the U2U offices, comparing Swift to C# and giving people an idea what Apple development with Xcode looks like. Some people asked if we would make the slides available, so here they are.SwiftEvent.pdf (2.2MB)
Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis in Universal Windows Apps 21 September 2014 Diederik-Krols Universal Windows Apps, Windows Phone, WinRT This article introduces you to speech recognition (speech-to-text, STT) and speech synthesis (text-to-speech, TTS) in a Universal Windows XAML app. It comes with a sample app – code attached at the end- that has buttons for opening the standard UI for speech recognition, opening a custom UI for sp... [More]
Weird localization problem in DAX editor 17 September 2014 Nico-Jacobs Business Intelligence, Excel, Power BI, SQL Server BI One of my students (thanks, Stefan!) discovered during the PowerBI course a bizarre localization issue in the DAX editor of Excel and SQL Server Data Tools, which is easy to replicate: Install Office 2013 or SQL Server data tools on a machine with a locale which uses a comma as decimal separator (I... [More]