Windows Store App Development

• Enter your app in the “Re-imagining Consumer Health with Windows 8 and HealthVault Challenge” (Windows Store for developers)

• Async Development in WinRT – I (Can Bilgin)

• Quick Tip: Processing HTML Content in Windows Store Apps (Jeremy Likness)

• A new store, but it’s still about selling great software (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Adding Windows 8 Features to a Game Maker Game (Daniel Egan)

• Windows Dev Center: Updates to the game portal (Microsoft Press)

• [Windows 8] Provide search suggestions based on local files (Thomas LeBrun)

• Getting the current system language (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Windows Phone App Development

• Use your HTML5 skills, port your PhoneGap app to Windows Phone, and win prizes (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 2 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Want to build an app, but don’t know what? (Matt Lacey)

Other

• IE Dev Center: Finding the resources you need, quickly (IEBlog)

• MonoGame: Building Portable Solutions (Simon Jackson)

• Web Performance APIs Rapidly Become W3C Recommendations (IEBlog)

• Benchmarking a HTML5 game: HTML5 Potatoes Gaming Bench (David Catuhe)

Windows Store App Development

• Introducing a new Windows Dev Center experience (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• Disposable Progress Indicators (Nigel Sampson)

• Thoughts on Monetization #4: In-app purchases (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Thoughts on Monetization #5: Multiple Apps and Monetizing Web APIs (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• WinJS : use the same data in the zoomed out and zoomed in view. (Jonathan Antione)

• Construct 2 Tip #4: Round Tripping With Event Variables (Jim O’Neil)

Windows Phone App Development

• Tips to grow your app revenue through in-app purchase (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• XAudio2 Performance and Battery Considerations for Windows Phone 8 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Using Viewbox for automatic control scaling (Toni Petrina)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit: MultiBindingBehavior (Pedro Lamas)

• Announcing the ability to Test Windows Phone 8 applications with Experitest SeeTest (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• WCF Data Services 5.5.0 Prerelease (WCF Data Services Blog)

Other

• MonoGame: Content Projects & Custom Model Types (Simon Jackson)

• Xamarin Evolve 2013 Talk Video – How C# Saved My Marriage (Scott Hanselman)

Windows Store App Development

• Thoughts on Monetization #1: Trials and Trial Conversions (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Thoughts on Monetization #2: Trials vs. Demos/Lite Versions (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Thoughts on Monetization #3: Using Ads (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Testing Tip #8: Double-check your graphics, tooltips, and other manifest information (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Windows Store App Template to Live Data in 3 Easy Steps (G. Andrew Duthie)

• Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: Authentication Tips and Tricks (G. Andrew Duthie)

• Using the Documents Library as a database in Windows 8 Store apps (Diederik Krols)

• Image UserControl with FadeIn & FadeOut Animation for WinRT (Can Bilgin)

• Windows Store MVVM Templates for Visual Studio (Andrew Wilkinson)

• Ready to learn XAML? (Jerry Nixon)

Windows Phone App Development

• Latest Windows Phone app submission improvements (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Windows Phone 8 navigation part 4-updating the tests, fixing the final issues (Joost van Schaik)

Windows Store App Development

• Sharing to your target app (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• Store Certification Tip #11: Honoring all input modalities (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Is it possible to rate and review a side-loaded app? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Just released – Prism for Windows Runtime (Blaine Wastell)

• Prism for Windows Runtime (Francis K. Cheung)

• Prism for Windows Runtime: Creating a basic implementation of the MVVM pattern (Francis K. Cheung)

• Prism for Windows Runtime: Creating and showing a Flyout using the FlyoutService class (Francis K. Cheung)

• Prism for Windows Runtime: Integrating a Dependency Injection Container (Francis K. Cheung)

• Prism for Windows Runtime: Validating User Input (Francis K. Cheung)

• Episode 65 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Prism for Windows Store Apps (Robert Green)

• patterns & practices: Prism for the Windows Runtime (CodePlex)

• DevRadio: (Part 6) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – Adding Authentication (Channel 9)

Windows Phone App Development

• Inside Windows Phone – Windows Phone and HTML5 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Making Durandal, PhoneGap and Windows Phone 8 work together (Mikael Koskinen)

• Windows Phone 8 navigation part 3-assembling the MVVMLight app (Joost van Schaik)

• Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit updated to v2.3.0 (Pedro Lamas)

Windows

• Windows 8 at 6 months: Q&A with Tami Reller (Blogging Windows)

Windows Store App Development

• Using Windows 8 features to drive customer engagement: the Box app (Windows Store for developers)

• WinRT JS app guide: Introduction (Iris Classon)

• When does an app get resized? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Windows Store app Development snack: Compress your images! (Robert MacLean)

• A Fluent Approach to Windows Store Tiles (Jeremy Likness)

• Metro theme colors (Janne Rautiola)

• [Windows 8] How to launch an app using NFC tags? (Thomas LeBrun)

• RSA cryptography between a WinRT and a .Net app (Jeremy Alles)

• Construct 2 Tip #3: (Uniquely) Leveraging Sprite Animations (Jim O’Neil)

• Iterating WinRT PropertySets in JavaScript (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Can a website detect Desktop Internet Explorer vs. its full-screen companion? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• MCSD: Windows Store Apps Using HTML5 study guide (Fin Cooper)

Windows Phone App Development

• Expanded developer opportunity – new payout markets and billing connections (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 1 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• How to override the theme of a custom Application Bar (Matteo Pagani)

• Announcing availability of ISOs for Visual Studio Updates (The Visual Studio Blog)

• Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 now available (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• TFS 2012.2 Power Tools update available (Brian Harry)

• .NET Crash Dump and Live Process Inspection (.NET Framework Blog)