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)

Today marks two important things:

• My son Benjamin was born 5 months ago today.
• This is my 200th Windows Store Developer Links post.

Time sure does fly.

Windows Store App Development

• Feature Spotlight: Search (Windows Store for developers)

• Design-time Data for Windows Store Apps with C# (Jeremy Likness)

• Protecting Your Code (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Considerations for turning a web app into a Windows Store app (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Using Open Data in mobile apps: lessons learned (Andrei Marukovich)

• Sizing images while preserving aspect ratios (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 2 of 3 (Visual C++ Team Blog)

• Win8 XAML App : how to debug the javascript in a WebView! (Jonathan Antione)

• Integrating Marked Up analytics with Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)

• [Windows 8] Using a custom font in your Windows Store apps (Thomas LeBrun)

• More Dev Center features – we’re listening (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

Windows Phone App Development

• First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – Lazy loading with Panorama and Pivot (Matteo Pagani)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• WCF Data Services 5.4.0 Release (WCF Data Services Blog)

• AdRotator V2 progress report (Simon Jackson)

Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Now Available (S. Somasegar)

• .NET Memory Allocation Profiling with Visual Studio 2012 (.NET Framework Blog)

• XAML (Windows Store apps) editing in Visual Studio broken with NVIDIA Optimus (Robert MacLean)

• Build faster and high performing native applications using PGO (Visual C++ Team Blog)

TFS

• VS/TFS 2012.2 (Update 2) released today (Brian Harry’s blog)

• Building and Validating Windows Store Apps with Team Foundation Service (Thomas LeBrun)

Windows Store App Development

• Windows Store app support in jQuery version 2.0 (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• At GDC, game developers reveal early success on Windows 8 (Windows Store for developers)

• Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 1 of 3 (Visual C++ Team Blog)

• Lessons Learned From Rushing To Market (Jeff Blankenburg)

• Lessons Learned In Using Microsoft Ads (Jeff Blankenburg)

• Windows 8 Store Applications Vs. WPF Applications (Jesse Liberty)

• Ensuring your Windows store app knows of a language change (Tim Heuer)

• WinRT Settings with Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)

• Creating touch-based rotation in Windows 8 XAML Store apps (Diederik Krols)

• Windows 8 – When Saving Isn’t Saving and Opening Isn’t Opening (Mike Taulty)

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 3) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – ASP.NET Web API (Channel 9)

• Microsoft DevRadio: How I’ve Made OVER $100k with My Windows 8 Apps (Channel 9)

• [Win8] The cached file updater contract or how to make more useful the File Save Picker contract (Jonathan Antoine)

• C++/CX : how to fix the “precompiled header file is from a previous version of the compiler” error (Jonathan Antoine)

• Switching Project Type Between Windows Runtime Component and (.NET) Class Library (Filip Skakun)

• WinRT component: How to generate a GUID? (David Catuhe)

Windows Phone App Development

• New middleware makes porting games to Windows Phone easy (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Using named events to coordinate foreground apps and background agents (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit Now Available for Windows Phone 8 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Fullscreen XNA games on Windows Phone 8 devices (Nokia Developer Wiki)

• First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – Pivot (Matteo Pagani)

• First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – Panorama (Matteo Pagani)

• Microsoft’s advice about Panoramas is wrong! (Matt Lacey)

• Where to get icons for your app? (Matt Lacey)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Unity open beta for Windows Store and Windows Phone apps (Fin Cooper)

Windows Store App Development

• Developing Windows Store games (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• Building Secure Windows Store Apps (Andrei Marukovich)

• WinRT Sharing with Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)

• Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 1 (Why doesn’t StorageFile have a close method?) (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 2: My God, what are all those stream types about? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 3: What are these buffer things? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 4: don’t streams and buffers make file I/O complicated? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 5: What are MSStream and Blob objects in HTML5? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Windows 8 (or XAML generally): Loading Images with Progress/Fallback Content (Mike Taulty)

• 28 days in – Windows Store Analytics for my Balloons game (David Isbitski)

• Push Notifications for Specific Users (Jeremy Foster)

• The Slider’s Guide to the MVVM Galaxy (Diederik Krols)

• Stupid Question 164: What is the difference between Telemetry and Analytics data in RE to Windows Store Apps? (Iris Classon)

• Microsoft DevRadio: Develop Apps for Windows 8 & Windows Phone with Tiggzi (Channel 9)

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 2) UX Guidance for Handling Large Data in Windows 8 Apps (Channel 9)

• Microsoft DevRadio: How to Include Advertising in Your Windows 8 apps (Channel 9)

Windows Phone App Development

• First steps with Caliburn Micro – The Application Bar (Matteo Pagani)

• Debugging binding issues is hard. Having simpler code makes it easier (Matt Lacey)

• 10 Tips for designing your mobile APIs (Matt Lacey)

• Updating App to Windows Phone 8 Using a Startup Project (Mikael Koskinen)

• Unit testing async Windows Phone 8 code on the UI thread with VS 2012.2 CTP4 (Joost van Schaik)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• NuGet Package of the Week #13 – Portable HttpClient makes portable libraries more useful (Scott Hanselman)

• Okra App Framework v0.9.6 Released (Andrew Wilkinson)

• Improvements in Version 0.9.6 of the Okra App Framework (Andrew Wilkinson)

Other

• Inner Workings of Immutable Collections on Channel 9 (BCL Blog)

Hopefully you can bear with me as today’s links aren’t as fresh as usual.
I will be working through a backlog of several hundred items over the next few days.

That’ll teach me to go on vacation.

Windows Store App Development

• Lessons Learned About Capturing Keystrokes in Windows 8 (Jeff Blankenburg)

• Lessons Learned in Windows 8 Scaling (Jeff Blankenburg)

• Alive with Activity, Part 3: Push notifications and Windows Azure Mobile Services (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8-Application Lifecycles (Mike Taulty)

• Windows 8 Storing Data With SQLite (Jesse Liberty)

• Smooth Streaming Client SDK for Windows 8 (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Mixing links and flyouts in Settings (WinJS) (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Saving Credentials from the Credential Picker (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 1) UX Guidance for Handling Large Data in Windows 8 Apps (Channel 9)

Windows Phone App Development

• Build Apps for Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Using the SQLite database engine with Windows Phone 8 apps (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Debugging C++ components in Windows Phone 8 projects (Toni Petrina)

• First steps with Caliburn Micro – Use your own services and how to pass data between different pages (Matteo Pagani)

• First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – Using launchers and choosers (Matteo Pagani)

• Online privacy when building apps for kids (Matt Lacey)

• Using a complimentary accent color (Matt Lacey)

• Simple reverse geocoding with Windows Phone 8 and MVVMLight (Joost van Schaik)

• Using PowerShell to automate the build process of your Windows Phone app (Jeremy Alles )

• Missing OpenStreamForWriteAsync on my StorageFile (Matthias Shapiro)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Azure Mobile Services: Pre-Release .NET Client Libraries with WP7.5 and PCL Support (Mike Taulty)

• Authentication Issues with Windows Azure Mobile Services (Nick Randolph)

• Build a Following for Your App – Before You Launch! (Jim O’Neil)

Other

• “Invoke the method with await”… ugh! (Stephen Toub)

• Designing for Multiple Form Factors (Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog)

• Building your app version defense strategy – Part II (Josh Twist)