Windows App Developer Links - 2012-10-12

posted on 12 Oct 2012 | App Developer Links

Windows 8 App Development

  • What Windows 8 developers need to know about app certification and publishing (Jerry Nixon)

    • "Here are some of the best links for developers building Windows 8 apps. Windows 8 app certification requirements... Avoiding common certification failures... Resolving certification errors... Index of UX guidelines for Windows Store apps... Opening a developer account... Keeping your Microsoft account secure... Publishing your app to the Store... Submitting your app..."

  • Windows 8 Special Edition of MSDN Magazine (Michael Desmond)

    • "Welcome to the Windows 8 special edition of MSDN Magazine. Over the past several months a talented team of authors, editors and Microsoft technical experts have worked together to produce a bonus issue of MSDN Magazine focused entirely on Windows 8, Windows Runtime and the development of Windows Store applications..."

  • Tips for Dealing with New and Missing Windows 8 XAML Controls (Safari Books Online)

    • "Although the Windows 8 XAML platform brings back a lot of the controls that exist in WPF and Silverlight, and adds some completely new ones, there are some controls that you might find missing and wonder what to do. In this article we cover a list of some of these controls, along with some suggested ways to cope with their loss..."

  • Windows Store app Development Snack: Async & Sharing (Robert MacLean)

    • "Here is an interesting issue, you need to implement a Share Source but to do the sharing you need it to be an async call. So what do you do? You can add the async & await modifiers but it won't work correctly. The solution is to use the deferral which is given to you in the arguments of the event and when you are done you call the Complete method on it to indicate that you are done with all the async goodness..."

  • Playing sound, music or video in Windows Store Apps (Iris Classon)

    • "Playing sounds, music or videos in a Windows Store App is pretty easy. Here is how you can do it..."

  • Understand Project Templates and Structure of your Windows Store apps (Kunal Chowdhury)

    • "Last day in "Getting Started with Windows Store apps Development" we discussed about Windows Store applications and how to setup your development machine to start with the development. We also discussed it's four different project categories. Today in this continued series post, we will learn more about project templates in each category and the basic project structure of most used templates..."

Free Training Materials

  • Windows Store Apps Video Series (Wintellect)

    • "Jeffrey Richter and Jeff Prosise have been diligently creating a new Mastering Windows Store Apps course. Jeffrey Richter and Wintellect are making available course segments, for free, and the ability for you to audition the course and provide comments, reactions, and discussion. Don't miss this unique opportunity to get access to Wintellect's deep dive approach to technology and look at premier training..."