Windows Store App Development

• CSS loading behaviors when using WinJS page controls (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Windows Phone App Development

• Inside Windows Phone – Data binding (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Understanding XAML Namescopes (Pedro Lamas)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Icon Explorer (GeekChamp)

• Please update to the latest version of Web Essentials 2012 after installing VS2012 Update 2 (.NET Web Development and Tools Blog)

Other

• Finding a Profitable Niche in the App Store (Steve Tibbett)

Windows Store App Development

• Resources for Developing Windows Store apps (Dr. Zhiming Xue)

• Using the background task completed event and signalDataChanged to communicate with the app (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Windows 8 App Design Template: E-Commerce Electronics (GeekChamp)

Windows Phone App Development

• Windows Phone 8 navigation part 2-routing, route details,tombstoning-and testing (Joost van Schaik)

• Assert.ThrowsException the async way (Pedro Lamas)

• Cimbalino Toolkit: Services (Scott Lovegrove)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET (Scott Guthrie)

• New Features in the Latest ReSharper 8 EAP (JetBrains .NET Tools Blog)

Other

• Save: Petzold’s Programming Windows 6th Ed with coupon at Amazon.com (Microsoft Press)

• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Enabling New Relic Performance Monitoring on Windows Azure Websites (Scott Hanselman)

Windows Store App Development

• Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Using Typescript in Windows Store apps (Andrea Boschin)

• Some useful async extension methods (Nigel Sampson)

• Using resources in background tasks (it’s OK, but not with WinJS) (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Be good, or be good at it (Robert MacLean)

Windows Phone App Development

• Trial experience for apps, first steps (Steven White)

• MonoGame: Using libraries with Windows Phone projects (Simon Jackson)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Google Analytics SDK for Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps (Tim Greenfield)

Free Training Materials & Events

• App Builder Virtual Summit (Microsoft)

Windows Store App Development

• WinRT Business Apps with Prism: App State Management (Brian Noyes)

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

• Launching Skype from your own Windows Store App (Geert van der Cruijsen)

• Caveats with form elements (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• #Win8Dev Tutorial: Programmatically download a File in WinRT apps (Kunal Chowdhury)

• Develop High Performance Windows 8 Application with HTML5 and JavaScript | Best Practices & Tips (Dr. Doris Chen)

• HTML5 Gaming: benchmarking your sprites animations to target all devices & browsers (David Rousset)

• Register now: Free live Q&A session with Charles Petzold on Tuesday (Microsoft Press)

Windows Phone App Development

• How to manage orientation in Windows Phone using VisualStateManager (Matteo Pagani)

• 8 Great Reasons to Design for Windows Phone 8 (Sarah Lamb)

• Windows Phone 8-flickR searching demo from UK Dev Camps (Mike Taulty)

• Additional Windows Phone 8 Application Bar icons! (Kristina Rothe)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• NuGet for C++ (Visual C++ Team Blog)

Other

• My modern “Start Screen” (Part 1) (Jose Fajardo)

• Walking While Working (Steve Smith)

Windows Store App Development

• Featured apps in the Windows Store (Windows Store for developers)

• When do I use data binding? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Android to Windows 8: The Complete Guide (Adam Grocholski)

Windows Phone App Development

• Porting a real win8 app to WP8-part 1 (Nico Vermeir)

• Porting a real win8 app to WP8-part 2 (Nico Vermeir)

• Porting a real win8 app to WP8-part 3 (Nico Vermeir)

• Windows Phone – Authenticate and Authorize users with Server Scripts in Windows Azure Mobile Services (Channel 9)

• Detect the screen resolution for Windows Phone OS 7.1 applications (Dan Ardelean)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• NuGet 2.5 Release Notes (NuGet)

• Introducing InAppPurchaseToggle for Windows Store In App Purchase (Jason Roberts)

• Windows Phone 8 Training Kit (Microsoft Download Center)