Windows Store App Development

• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #13: Navigation (Jeff Blankenburg)

• • “In fact, in the first 12 days of this series, we’ve spent very little time talking about how to do one of the most common activities we’ll encounter in Windows 8 development: navigating between XAML pages…”

• Windows 8 Store Apps – Debugging Background Tasks (Mike Taulty)

• • “I’m sure this is written down somewhere but I’ve not come across it so I thought I’d write it down here. At our UK Windows 8 Camps we talk about the process lifecycle for a Windows 8 Store app and how a developer needs to think about the steps of suspend/resume/terminate for an app…”

• Windows Store apps Development Tutorial (Part 9) – Share Contract using DataTransferManager (Kunal Chowdhury)

• • “If you are a Windows 8 Store application and/or game developer, you may want to provide feature to share text, graphics, links or game score cards to Facebook, Twitter or Email. Windows 8 SDK provides those APIs to implement the feature in your application…”

Windows Phone App Development

• Windows Phone 8 – Fast app resume (Tore Lervik)

• • “Fast app resume makes app behave more like they do in Windows 8 when clicking on the app tile. In this example we are resuming the app to where we left it…”

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Class Browser Plus – A Windows 8 Developer’s Utility (Russell Archer)

• • “Class Browser Plus is a Windows 8 Developer’s utility that enables you to view the properties, methods and events (along with help text) for all Windows 8 classes…”

Other

• Scaling cloud apps with the .NET Framework 4.5 (.NET Framework Blog)

• • “Richard Lander, a program manager for the Common Language Runtime, explains a few best practices that can result in fantastic scaling by applying very simple coding patterns around the .NET Framework 4.5 asynchrony feature…”

• IE10: Fast, Fluid, Perfect for Touch, and Available Now for Windows 7 (IEBlog)

• • “With the IE10 Release Preview for Windows 7 consumers can now enjoy a fast and fluid Web with the updated IE10 engine on their Windows 7 devices. The release preview of IE10 on Windows 7 is available for download today…”