Windows 8 App Development

• NuGet for Windows Store App Developers (The Visual Studio Blog)

• • “The Windows 8 packages feed isn’t limited to Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8 so we’ll show you below how you can add this to other editions of Visual Studio 2012 as well…”

• Using Behaviors in Windows 8 Store Apps (Diederik Krols)

• • “This short article explains how to write and use behaviors in Windows 8 Store apps…”

• Example Windows Store App /WinRT: Adding and using Bing Map (Iris Classon)

• • “Since I’m working on a cross platform app that uses Bing Maps I’ve made a simple step by step guide on how to add and use the Bing Map in a Windows Store Application using XAML only…”

• App Search and the Okra App Framework (Andrew Wilkinson)

• • “In this post I will describe how the Okra App Framework makes it easy to add search to your application using the same MVVM principles that you are using for the rest of your application…”

• Creating a Custom Async Dialog for your Win8 Apps Part 1 – LoginDialog (Shawn Kendrot)

• • “For a recent Windows Store App, I needed to create a way for people to log into it. … I wanted to work with the new async/await architecture. I thought that creating a login dialog that fit this pattern would be a fun adventure…”

• Windows Store apps Development Tutorial (Part 7) – Integrating Application Bar (Kunal Chowdhury)

• • “Today in this chapter we will learn more about Application Bar in Windows Store apps along with integration and design guidelines…”

• ICommand implementation with a little bit of async in WinRT (Tom Peplow)

• • “We created an AsyncRelayCommand which essentially disables the command while an async action is running. This is useful because commands may call services…”

• Windows 8 App Development: Resources for iOS Developers (Bob Familiar)

• • “To make the migration easy for iOS developers, we recently launched content to help you get started with Visual Studio and migrate both your design and your objective-C code to Windows 8…”

• Announcing Windows 8 on Channel 9! (Channel 9)

• • “Have you built your app yet? To help you get started we’ve just opened the Windows 8 Area on Channel 9. Right now we have over 85 videos and 17 hours of free developer content. You’ll learn how to build beautiful apps and sell them in the Windows Store…”

Visual Studio 2012

• Your Visual Studio, Your Colors (The Visual Studio Blog)

• • “I’m happy to announce that we now have available a Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor extension! This extension provides you with seven new color themes to choose from as well as the ability to easily create new custom themes…”

Windows Phone 8

• The Absolute Top Features of Windows Phone 8 (Jerry Nixon)

• • Jerry Nixon shares his list of the 34 best features of Windows Phone 8…

• Introducing the new Office on Windows Phone 8 (Office Next)

• • “Today, we’re proud to introduce the new Office; it comes pre-installed on every Windows Phone 8, which is launching worldwide today…”

Books

• Free ebook: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Microsoft Press)

• • “Hello, Kraig Brockschmidt here. To help celebrate //build/, I’m delighted to announce the completion of Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript!…”