Windows Store App Development

• WSALs + Guidelines and Requirements for Windows Store Apps Development (Christophe Nasarre)

• Does lightning really strike twice? (Simon Jackson)

• Enabling Twitter OAuth For An Azure Mobile Service in a Windows 8 Game (Sumit Maitra)

• A simple design time data example with Windows Store Applications for beginners (Iris Classon)

• Improvements in Windows Store Unit Tests: Test Exceptions in Async Lamba Expressions, Run Tests on the UI Thread (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Team Blog)

Windows Phone App Development

• Tips for Localizing Windows Phone 8 XAML Apps – Part1 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• 5 Ways to Get Better at Designing Apps for Windows Phone (Krisztian Gyuris)

• In lament for XNA Framework, long live the XNA platform (Simon Jackson)

• Windows Phone 8, Netduino and Bluetooth… (Coding4Fun)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Optional SDK Update for XAML Publishers to Remediate Z-index Issues (Microsoft Advertising Blog)

• Autofac 3.0.0 Released (Travis Illig)

Free Training Materials

• Free one hour async training! (Robert MacLean)

Visual Studio 2012

• A quick look at Git support in Visual Studio 2012 (Jon Galloway)

Other

• modern.IE – A new set of tools to help test web site compatibility (IEBlog)