Windows App Developer Links - 2012-10-22

Windows 8 App Development

• Win8 Developers: Don't Make the Terrible Mistake of Treating the Windows Store like the iOS App Store (Aaron Stannard)

  • "Hi there, average Windows 8 developer - take a seat right over there. ... The reason I asked you to step into my office today is because we need to have an honest conversation about the way you've been working with the Windows Store..."

• Ten Things You Need to Know About WebView (Matt Small)

  • "I've seen a lot of posts on the C# forum regarding the WebView control and thought it would be good to compile the information we've collected regarding Webview..."

• Windows Store Apps - Sharing HTML with Images (Mike Taulty)

  • "One of the really powerful features of Windows Store apps is the system-provided ability to share data from one app to the other while keeping those 2 apps loosely coupled..."

• Get more quality reviews for your Windows Style apps (Mark Monster)

  • "I've been creating Windows Phone apps for more than two years, so more and more concepts I use in the Phone apps should be ported to Windows Style apps (former Metro). One of these concepts is the question to review the app after 5 application starts..."

• Winrt: How to Properly Implement ISupportIncrementalLoading with Navigation (Michel Salib)

  • "BestComparator is about to publish its new Windows 8 application, and I ran into a really weird and frustrating issue when implementing ISupportIncrementalLoading..."

• Shortcut Key Handling in Windows Store Apps (Morten Nielsen)

  • "I wanted to create a simple ALT+S shortcut in my app to jump to a TextBox in my Windows Store App (no this is not the Win+Q search charm shortcut). However, this is not that obvious to get working app-wide, so I'll share it here..."

• Windows Store - Capture Photo using Camera (Sumit Dutta)

  • "In this article I will talk about how to capture photo in Windows Store using WinJS..."

• How to Test Your Windows 8 App Before Submitting to the Store (Jared Bienz)

  • "It's always a good idea to test your application before submitting it to the store. The Windows Application Certification Kit (WACK) tool can save you from failing the early automated tests..."

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 3) Using Blend to Help Design Your Windows 8 Apps-Interactive Mode (Channel 9)

  • "In the final part of our Using Blend for Windows 8 apps series, Andrew Duthie and Kirupa Chinnathambi take a look at the Interactive Mode for Blend and demo for us how to style a template using CSS, data binding and more..."

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• NDEF Library for Proximity APIs (NFC) (CodePlex)

  • "Easily parse and create NDEF records with the Windows Proximity APIs (NFC)..."

Free Training Materials

• Get In on the Action: Learn Windows 8 with Hands-on Labs (Jonathan Rozenblit)

  • "Here are 9 hands-on labs to get you started. The best part - they're hosted virtually so you don't even have to a) have Windows 8 installed (yet!) and b) have to download and install any tools..."

Other

• Asynchronous Programming with Async and Await (C# and Visual Basic) (MSDN)

  • "This topic provides an overview of when and how to use async programming and includes links to support topics that contain details and examples..."