Windows App Developer Links - 2012-07-13

posted on 12 Jul 2012 | App Developer Links

Internet Explorer 10

  • IE10 User Agent String Update (IEBlog)

    • "The IE10 user agent string was originally introduced in the first platform preview of IE10. In Windows 8 Release Preview we made two additions to aid server-side feature detection..."

Visual Studio 2012

  • Visual Studio 2012 and TFS 2012 Official Release Timeframe Announced (Ed Blankenship)

    • "Jason Zander, the Corporate Vice President for Visual Studio, has tweeted that the Visual Studio 2012 will release to manufacturing (RTM) in early August which is the same time that Windows 8 will RTM as announced at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner's Conference..."

Metro App Development

  • Testing Metro style apps in Windows 8 (Windows 8 app developer blog)

    • "In the world of Metro style apps, your apps are the focus of the whole experience. For this experience to be delightful to your users, you want to ensure that your apps are well tested and represent a high level of quality. Producing a Metro style app involves four main stages: design, development, testing and finally distribution. A number of previous blog posts focus on the design and development aspects of Metro style apps. In this post, we cover a few high level verification areas related to testing your apps..."

  • Random Tile Colors (Jeremy Foster)

    • "This tip is quite short and simple, but worth a post I think. If you want to colorize some tiles like the start screen does, here's one simple way to do it..."

Apps & Code to Look At