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Diederik is principal consultant at U2U Consult where he designs and develops C# & XAML apps for the Enterprise and the Store, with or without an Azure backend
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Mobile Development at U2U Consult

Based in Brussels, Belgium, U2U Consult has been offering consulting & development services in the EMEA region for over 10 years. We offer mobile development on all platforms from Apple to Android & Microsoft.

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  • The Radial Gauge goes UWP
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  • Extend your UWP apps with Lua scripting
  • User input validation with Prism and data annotations on the UWP
  • Using Lex.Db on the Universal Windows Platform
  • Using SQLite on the Universal Windows Platform
  • A CoverFlow control for the Universal Windows Platform
  • An ImageCropper control for the Universal Windows Platform
  • A lap around Adaptive Triggers
  • A lap around the RelativePanel Control

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A lap around the SplitView Control

15 July 2015 Diederik-Krols UWP
The SplitView is a new XAML control that provides a top-level navigation service to apps that target [More]

A pull-to-refresh ListView for Windows 8.1 Universal Apps

01 June 2015 Diederik-Krols Universal Windows Apps
This article presents a Universal Windows 8.1 XAML ListView control with pull-to-refresh capabilitie [More]

Capability-driven App Bar for List Items

15 May 2015 Diederik-Krols Universal Windows Apps
Lots of Windows 8.1 Store Apps come with a page that shows a list of items that have commands attach [More]

Using the OneDrive SDK in universal apps

07 April 2015 Diederik-Krols Universal Windows Apps, Windows Phone
This article shows how to use the new OneDrive SDK in a Windows universal app. It presents a sample [More]

An animated ScrollToSection for the Universal Hub Control

23 February 2015 Diederik-Krols Universal Windows Apps, Windows Phone
In this article I show a way to animate the scrolling to a particular HubSection of a Hub in a Unive [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]

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]

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]

Universal Windows Apps: a Tale of Two Calendars.

31 July 2014 Diederik-Krols Universal Windows Apps
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the server side calendar on the tablet, it was the client side calendar on the smart phone. This article explains two ways of managing appointments in your calendar through a Univers... [More]
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