Windows App Developer Links - 2012-10-24

Windows 8 App Development

• 9 Tips for an Excellent Windows Store App (Yacine Khammal)

  • "A few weeks ago, I successfully published a Windows 8 app in the store. ... In this post I'll share 9 key lessons I've learned..."

• Styling windows 8 - 1 Colors and themes (Håkan Reis)

  • "When you start creating a Windows 8 store app, the platform will provide you with a basic useful theme. ... In this series of posts I will try to walk you through a few ways that I have found work well in the applications we are building..."

• Adding About and Privacy Policy tabs to Windows Store App Settings (Abdullah Al Nady)

  • "Well, Now we want to add "About" tab and another one for the Privacy policy to the Windows Store Apps. There're two reasons for this..."

• Reusing elements in StandardStyles.xaml (Arun Mahendrakar)

  • "If you want to reference or build upon from an existing style in the StandardStyles.xaml file, do the following..."

Windows Phone 8

• Memory Profiling: The Object Graph View (Pratap Lakshman)

  • "In today's tutorial on the Windows Phone Performance Analysis tool, I'm focusing on the Object Graph view, which shows the graph of objects that are reachable from any instance of an object..."