Windows 8 App Development

• Testing in-app puchasing in Windows 8 (Fin Cooper)

• • “Developers can now add in-app purchasing to their apps. … Because it seems testing in-app purchasing system isn’t trivial to everybody, here’s a quick sample to get you started…”

• Windows 8 Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 7 (Samidip Basu)

• • “Now that we’ve got our Windows 8 App working, time to provide the always-on & always-connected user experience – leveraging services the right way…”

• Windows Store apps Development Tutorial (Part 5) – Know about LayoutAwarePage (Kunal Chowdhury)

• • “Today in this chapter we will discuss more advanced page navigation using the LayoutAwarePage which comes with the Grid and Split application template by default…”

• Your app needs a privacy policy in the Windows Store (György Balássy)

• • “If you would like to publish your Windows 8 application to the Windows Store, you better provide a proper privacy statement, because many apps are getting rejected because of missing or inadequate privacy policy…”

• Redefining the App Bar (Peter Dwersteg)

• • “One of the coolest things about developing Windows Store Apps is the number of powerful features you can add to your App with just a small amount of programming overhead. One of these features is the app bar…”

• Windows Store app Development Snack: Side loading apps for development purposes! (Robert MacLean)

• • “One of the things you need to think of when you are going through your development cycle is how the decision makers are going to test your app? Likely the best solution is to get it to their hands via a device, but how do you load your application onto that other device? Well there are TWO options!…”

• Windows Store Tips: Run the Windows App Certification Kit frequently and on a low spec computer (Eric Nelson)

• • “The Windows App Certification Kit test is one of the first things that happens to your application during certification – and if you fail it, your submission fails. The good news is that the WACK is also something you can run locally before you submit…”

• Preparing your Windows 8 Applications for the store (Surf4Fun)

• • “Once you have access to the Windows 8 Store then you can upload your app to the windows 8 store, but it can be confusing when you see all of the squares that you have to click…”

• Listing Font Names in Windows 8 C# XAML Apps (Geoff Webber-Cross)

• • “I thought this would be a two line job, but as often in Windows 8, things aren’t always as you’d expect. All I wanted to do was list font names for a combo box picker, but found you need to use DirectX DirectWrite to get the font names…”

• Microsoft DevRadio: Your Top Windows Store Questions Answered (Channel 9)

• • “Jerry Nixon welcomes Principal Program Manager Arik Cohen to the show as they discuss the recently launched Windows Store and a wide variety of topics developers ask most…”

Other

• Using async/await without .NET Framework 4.5 (Immo Landwerth)

• • “Do you want to use await but don’t want to wait until you can target .NET Framework 4.5? The waiting is over and awaiting is about to begin…”