Windows App Developer Links - 2012-11-08

Windows 8

• Reimagining Windows.com (Blogging Windows)

  • "This blog post outlines some of the exciting new features of the site, how our redesign addresses what we've learned from our customers, and gives you a little peek behind the scenes of the team that created the new Windows.com experience..."

Windows Store App Development

• The Microsoft Build 2012 Event — .NET Framework Highlights (.NET Framework Blog)

  • "Christine Ruana is the project manager that organized the release of the .NET Framework 4.5. She pulled together the following highlights of BUILD and our team's meet up with .NET users..."

• Developing Games for Windows 8 (David Isbitski)

  • "Are you a Game Developer looking to get into the Windows Store? A Web Developer curious how HTML and JavaScript play a part in Windows 8? Great News! My team has recently finished adding an entire Game Development Track to Generation App and it is totally free..."

• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #7: Share Contract (Jeff Blankenburg)

  • "Today we're going to take the next step and explore one of the features that gets both Clark and I really excited, Sharing..."

• Animations and Gestures in a Windows 8 app using WinJS (Mehfuz Hossain)

  • "This article demonstrates gesture recognition and element animations in a Windows 8 application using WinJS, making it intuitive and fun to use..."

• Windows 8 Notifications: Push Notifications via Windows Azure Web Sites (Part 1) (Jim O'Neil)

  • "I've talked about Windows Azure Mobile Services which can greatly simplifies many push notification scenarios. Here though, I'd like to explore the implementation a bit closer to the metal, so I'm leveraging Windows Azure Web Sites..."

• Windows 8 Notifications: Push Notifications via Windows Azure Web Sites (Part 2) (Jim O'Neil)

  • "In this post, I'll cover what's required to outfit my Windows Store Boys of Summer application to receive toast notifications. If you haven't already, I suggest reviewing the previous post for context..."

Windows Phone App Development

• What's new in the Windows Phone Store—a developer perspective (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

  • "For several months we've been rolling out a series of infrastructure upgrades to the Windows Phone Store and Dev Center in preparation for Windows Phone 8. That work is now wrapping up, so I wanted to give you an update, tell you what these changes mean for you, and point you to some helpful resources..."

Apps & Code to Look At

• Towers of Hanoi 3D (CodePlex)

  • "A simple Towers of Hanoi 3D game for the Windows Store. Developed with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit - http://aka.ms/vs3dkit ..."