Windows 8 App Development

• 9 Tips for an Excellent Windows Store App (Yacine Khammal)

• • “A few weeks ago, I successfully published a Windows 8 app in the store. … In this post I’ll share 9 key lessons I’ve learned…”

• Styling windows 8 – 1 Colors and themes (Håkan Reis)

• • “When you start creating a Windows 8 store app, the platform will provide you with a basic useful theme. … In this series of posts I will try to walk you through a few ways that I have found work well in the applications we are building…”

• Adding About and Privacy Policy tabs to Windows Store App Settings (Abdullah Al Nady)

• • “Well, Now we want to add “About” tab and another one for the Privacy policy to the Windows Store Apps. There’re two reasons for this…”

• Reusing elements in StandardStyles.xaml (Arun Mahendrakar)

• • “If you want to reference or build upon from an existing style in the StandardStyles.xaml file, do the following…”

Windows Phone 8

• Memory Profiling: The Object Graph View (Pratap Lakshman)

• • “In today’s tutorial on the Windows Phone Performance Analysis tool, I’m focusing on the Object Graph view, which shows the graph of objects that are reachable from any instance of an object…”