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]