Windows Store App Development

• How to profile a JavaScript Windows Store App for performance problems (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• Using Visual Studio’s Javascript Memory Analysis tool to find memory leaks on your Windows 8 Javascript app (David Catuhe)

• Using and abusing CallerMemberName (Nigel Sampson)

• #wp8tip: Adapt images to different resolutions (Andrea Boschin)

• Annotating PDF Documents in a Windows 8 Store App (Mike Taulty)

• Using WinJS.Navigation.history.current.initialPlaceholder = true (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Windows Phone App Development

• Using the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK to localize Windows Phone OS 7.1 projects (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – The complete series (Matteo Pagani)

• Android to Windows 8: Top 10 tips for passing Windows Store certification (Jennifer Marsman)

• Android to Windows Phone 8 Part 6: Creating a Second Page (Adam Grocholski)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Use Mobile Services to easily schedule tasks in Windows Azure (Fin Cooper)

• UNITY, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Windows Azure (Lee Stott)

Free Training Materials

• Free Jump Start: May 2, 2013 – Windows Store App Essentials using C# (Microsoft Press)

Windows Store App Development

• Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Handling asynchronous operations (Andrea Boschin)

• HttpClient Basic Authentication for WinRT (Mikael Koskinen)

• A convention-based data template selector for Windows 8 XAML Store apps (Diederik Krols)

• Now with Javascript: Reading PDF and XPS on your Windows 8 application using WinRT (David Catuhe)

• Testing Tip #7: Simulating a metered connection (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Previewing image uploads with FileReader in HTML5 (Michael Williamson)

• Validating all observables w/ Knockout validation and Typescript (Derik Whittaker)

• Solved Exception in Passing Relative URI to Windows Runtime (Dhananjay Kumar)

Windows Phone App Development

• Creating a Custom ToastPrompt Control for Windows Phone (Den Delimarsky)

• Windows Phone app submission “signing failed” (Matt Lacey)

• How to start Windows Phone 8 Emulator without Visual Studio (Luis Cantero)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• MVVM Stack for WinJS by Corrado Cavalli available on Codeplex (Davide Zordan)

Visual Studio

• Learn IntelliTrace (Visual Studio ALM + Team Foundation Server Blog)

Windows Store App Development

• Develop a cutting edge app with NFC (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Intro and Considerations (GeekChamp)

• All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Static Tiles and Tile Icons (GeekChamp)

• All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Tile Properties (GeekChamp)

• Create app bar button icons using Segue UI Symbols font (Toni Petrina)

• Code snippet for testing network connectivity (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Behavior of Windows.System.Display.displayRequest.requestActive applies only to the foreground app (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Construct 2 Tip #2: Settings Flyouts (Jim O’Neil)

Windows Phone App Development

• Inside Windows Phone – code samples (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Facebook SDK for .NET – Featured in the Facebook Technology Partner program (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Windows Phone 8 navigation part 1-geocoding, tombstoning-and testing (Joost van Schaik)

• Using different WMAppManifest files for release and debug builds (Toni Petrina)

• WP Toolkit : Adding a item in the SelectedItems collection of a LongListMultiSelector actually adds 2 items… (Jonathan Antione)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• My essential tools and resources for Windows 8 & Windows Phone development (Nigel Sampson)

• jQuery 2.0 Released (jQuery Blog)

Windows Store App Development

• Startups unveil new apps for Windows 8 at DEMO Mobile (Windows Store for developers)

• App Art (Jeremy Foster)

• Windows 8, Background Tasks and the ‘Noisy’ NetworkStatusChange Trigger (Mike Taulty)

• Reading PDF and XPS on your Windows 8 application using WinRT (David Catuhe)

• Construct 2 Tip #1: Implementing Snapped View State (Jim O’Neil)

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 5) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – Adding Push Notifications (Channel 9)

• Opportunities to use the Resuming Event (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Does licensechanged fire when an expiration date passes? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Testing on a Microsoft Surface and other ARM devices (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Store Certification Tip #10: Release date and promo codes (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• How to perform horizontal scrolling with mouse wheel in Webview for Windows Store apps? (Thomas LeBrun)

• We need your questions for a Q&A session with Charles Petzold (Microsoft Press)

Windows Phone App Development

• Defining your app’s requirements for a great customer experience (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Controlling a hardware prototype with your Windows Phone (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Windows Phone Series – MVVM and ApplicationBar (Rahul Nath)

Apps to Look At

• Windows Phone App Manager (Nick Randolph)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Repository Pattern with Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows Phone app and Windows Store app (Nicolas Humann)

• Microsoft.Bcl.Async is Now Stable (Base Class Library (BCL) Blog)

• Windows Azure Infrastructure Services, Virtual Machines and Virtual Network, now are generally available! (Fin Cooper)

Windows Store App Development

• Creating connected Windows Store apps (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) (Visual C++ Team Blog)

• Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 3 of 3 (Visual C++ Team Blog)

• MVVM – Does it really matter? (Rahul Nath)

• The last Visibility Converter (Nigel Sampson)

• Avoiding UI thread overload when using simulatenous async operations (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Testing Tip #6: Testing the Share Contract (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Determining Process Architecture at Runtime (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• A few design tips for “Early Learner” apps (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Inter-Process communication with protocol association in WinRT – Part 3 (Christophe Nasarre)

• [Windows 8] Insert a local CSS/JS file in the HTML of a Webview (Thomas LeBrun)

• Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: Adding Authentication (G. Andrew Duthie)

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 4) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – Azure Mobile Services (Channel 9)

Windows Phone App Development

• ViewModel driven multi-state animations using DataTriggers and Blend on Windows Phone (Joost van Schaik)

• Accelerate cool app development with the Coding4Fun Toolkit (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Windows Phone Series – Preloading Content (Rahul Nath)

• [WPDev] CustomMessageBox + OnNavigatedTo + Navigate = Exception! (Jonathan Antione)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• In-App Purchase and Mobile Services (Josh Twist)

• Facebook SDK for .NET (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• TypeScript Compile and Minify Powershell Script (Geoff Webber-Cross)