Solving the Xamarin Android Designer bug in Visual Studio 06 September 2018 Michael-Van-Wesemael Xamarin I recently did some development for Android using Xamarin in Visual Studio for Windows. Last time I [More]
Using Azure Event Grid with your own applications 28 March 2018 Michael-Van-Wesemael Azure, Microservices Since shortly you can use Event Grid in Azure. The idea is to provide you with a "cloud event system [More]
Exposing your Azure API App to PowerApps and Flow 04 May 2017 Michael-Van-Wesemael API Apps, Flow, PowerApps Since some time Azure allows you to expose your API apps to PowerApps and Flow in an easy way. Just go to your API definition (make sure CORS is enabled) and click on the export-button. This gives you a dialog where you can download or get a link to your Swagger metadata-file. Download it, and clic... [More]
Creating connectors for your Logic Apps/Flow (Part 3 – More triggers) 03 May 2017 Michael-Van-Wesemael API Apps, Azure, Flow, Logic Apps So, let's recap: we had regular connectors, we had poll triggers. So, we're still missing the push triggers. A poll trigger needs to be polled regularly by the logic app to see if it can continue. A push trigger does not have to be polled, it will tell the logic app when it needs to continue, passin... [More]
Creating connectors for your Logic Apps/Flow (Part 2 – Triggers) 07 March 2017 Michael-Van-Wesemael API Apps, Azure, Flow, Logic Apps In part 1, we saw how to add regular connectors for using in Azure Logic Apps. Remember: the purpose of these blog posts is just for pointing out some gaps in the documentation you'll find on the internet. Next to regular connectors, we can also create connectors to be used as connectors, i.e... [More]
Creating connectors for your Logic Apps/Flow (Part 1–regular Connectors) 24 February 2017 Michael-Van-Wesemael Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, Logic Apps, API Apps, Flow Azure logic apps have been around for a while now, most of the time as a preview. These apps allow you to create workflow-like apps, by connecting so called Connectors together. These connectors are actually just REST-services, with some extra's, like the exposure of metadata by using Swagger... [More]
Azure API and Logic Apps 09 June 2015 Michael-Van-Wesemael Last monday we did a little event where we talked about some new exciting stuff that was announced o [More]
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
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]
Creating updatable Live Tile from A to Z (part 2) 28 August 2012 Michael-Van-Wesemael Windows Phone At last, part 2 of this blogpost. In part 1, we created an updatable Live Tile. We still need to update it with a Background task. We start by adding a Windows Phone Scheduled Task Agent, which is a projecttype added with the devtools for the Mango-version. This type allows you to ask tasks to be pe... [More]