SharePoint Summit Toronto 02 June 2014 Michael-Van-Wesemael I just had the great opportunity of speaking on the Toronto SharePoint summit. Luckily also got some time for visiting the city.For those who are interested in the demos I showed in my two sessions: here they are: CSOM for Windows Phone Javascript for SharePoint
Loading GPX waypoints with Excel PowerQuery 02 June 2014 Nico-Jacobs Business Intelligence, Office, Power BI Plotting data on maps is becoming popular: We can use the geometry and geography data type in SQL Server, use the Reporting Services maps, Excel PowerView allows mapping coordinates on a map, and the recently released PowerMap plug-in in Excel offers beautiful visualizations of map data. But how ... [More]
Tracking with Tiles and Toasts 14 May 2014 Diederik-Krols WinRT This article shows a way to implement multiple alarm clock functionality in a Windows (Store or Enterprise) MVVM XAML App. We’ll use locally scheduled Toast and Tile Notifications to track the progress of a workflow - like a workout scheme or a cooking recipe. The workflow can be started, paused, re... [More]
Building Enterprise Side-loaded apps with OWIN 29 April 2014 Diederik-Krols Enterprise Windows Apps This article shows how a side-loaded line-of-business Windows app can communicate through HTTP with a locally installed desktop component (a .NET class library) by making use of the Open Web Interface for .NET. Apps that are loaded from the Store can still not leave the sandbox and can only connect ... [More]
Building Enterprise apps using Brokered Windows Runtime Components 25 April 2014 Diederik-Krols Enterprise Windows Apps This article shows step by step how to connect a side-loaded modern app to a legacy component via the “Brokered Windows Runtime Components for Side-Loaded applications” feature. This feature comes with Windows 8.1 Update and allows Modern apps to break outside the AppContainer and connect to desktop... [More]
A Radial Gauge for Universal Windows Apps 14 April 2014 Diederik-Krols Universal Windows Apps This article presents a modern radial gauge Custom Control, hosted in a Portable Class Library for Universal Windows apps. Visual Studio Update 2 comes with the concept of Universal Apps that can run on Windows PC’s, tablets, phones and the XBox. For an introduction to this new breed of apps, check ... [More]
Using OneDrive files in Windows Platform Apps – Part Deux 09 April 2014 Diederik-Krols WinRT This article presents a handful of building blocks for some more advanced OneDrive use cases in Windows 8 apps, like: transparently switching between a local folder and a OneDrive working folder, synchronizing a local folder with a OneDrive folder, sharing a OneDrive folder across devices, shari... [More]
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]