Windows App Developer Links - 2012-08-06

posted on 05 Aug 2012 | App Developer Links

Metro App Development

  • Getting paid from the Windows Store (Windows Store for developers)

    • "In previous posts we've described how to prepare your app and the different ways you can make money with your app on the Store. Just as important is how you will receive payments for your app sales. In this post, Program Manager Paul Lorah describes how the Windows Store handles payments, and what you need to do to ensure you receive payments in a timely manner..."

  • Windows 8 Notifications: Programmatic Concepts (Jim O'Neil)

    • "In my previous blog post, I provided a high level overview of notifications in Window 8, breaking the functionality down in terms of the user experience (tiles, toast, and badges) and delivery mechanisms (local, scheduled, periodic, and push). This post will look at the common programmatic concepts of the user experience: what you can do with tiles, toast and badges, and how you accomplish that within code. Subsequent blogs posts will focus more deeply on the specific delivery mechanisms..."

  • Caliburn.Micro for WinRT: Getting Started (Mikael Koskinen)

    • "It's happy times for the WinRT developers: Caliburn.Micro for WinRT is here. The core parts (INPC, EventAggregator) have actually been available since the developer preview was released last year, but now Nigel Sampson and Keith Patton have done a great work and have ported the rest of the framework to WinRT. Here's a short introduction about how to get started, aimed for those who have previous experience working with the framework..."

  • Windows 8, XNA and MonoGame - Part 2, Getting Started (Bob Familiar)

    • "In part 1 of this series I gave you an overview of MonoGame, an open source cross platform implementation of the XNA namespace and class model and how you could use that to port you existing XNA code to Windows 8. In this article, I will show you how to get your development environment setup to support your porting effort..."

  • Windows 8 WinRT/Metro Missing UpdateSourceTrigger (Aaron C)

    • "If you've done WPF or Silverlight programming, you may have found an occasion where using the Binding property UpdateSourceTrigger set to PropertyChanged was extremely useful. (I know I have!) ... In WinRT/Metro however, this option was completely removed, and no decent replacement was provided unfortunately. In searching for a reasonable work-around, I discovered a few other related missing pieces from WinRT/XAML..."

  • Using Bing Maps in a Metro App (Raj Rao)

    • "Step 1: Download the Bing Maps SDK. This is easier now as its been made into a Visual Studio Extension. Step 2: Create a blank Metro App. Step 3..."

Tools, Frameworks, & Libraries

  • MetroGridHelper for WinRT v1.1-Enhanced to work with Snapped and Portrait mode (Mark Monster)

    • "Because the left-margin is different for Snapped and Portrait mode, the previous version of MetroGridHelper for WinRT was not optimal. It didn't support a different left margins at all. Don't be sad, v1.1 supports Filled (120px), Snapped(20px), Fullscreen Landscape(100px) and Fullscreen Portrait(100px)..."

Windows Phone 8

  • 10 money-making secrets of top apps (part 1) (The Windows Phone Developer Blog)

    • "What do top apps have in common? It's a question that's probably crossed your mind as you design and publish your own apps. Well, we were curious, too. Recently the Marketplace team spent time crunching download stats and doing side-by-side comparisons of the top 50 apps in each Marketplace category looking for clues. The result? While there's certainly no magic formula for instant success, the analysis showed that best-selling apps do have things in common—lessons you can apply to your own apps to help boost downloads and revenue..."

  • 10 money-making secrets of top apps (part 2) (The Windows Phone Developer Blog)

    • "Do best-selling apps have something in common? The experts on our Marketplace team think so. In part one, I shared some of the lessons they learned from studying top apps across Marketplace. Here's the rest of the list..."