Windows App Developer Links - 2012-11-09

Windows Store App Development

• A non-traditional "Hello World" app with Windows 8 (Amar Nityananda)

  • "As developers, we start exploring any new platform/framework/language with a traditional "Hello World" program. Windows 8 is a re-imagined new OS, and so I thought let's re-imagine the "Hello World" too. Consultant Jargon is my non-traditional version of "Hello World"..."

• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #8: Local and Roaming Data (Jeff Blankenburg)

  • "In several of the articles in this series, we have mentioned that storing data is not only incredibly important, but also that it's super easy to do, both locally to a device, as well as roaming across the many different devices a user may use..."

• Windows 8 Notifications: Push Notifications via Windows Azure Web Sites (Part 3) (Jim O'Neil)

  • "It's finally time to get to the "Azure" piece of this three-parter! Those of you who haven't read Part 1 and Part 2 may want to at lease peruse those posts for context..."

• Windows Store apps Development Tutorial (Part 8) - Handling Files and Folders (Kunal Chowdhury)

  • "Many time we need to access files and folders from our applications. The Windows Store apps SDK provides us Asynchronous APIs to use for this service to query files and folders. You have to be familiar with async await calls in order to get started with this..."

• Building User Controls for Windows 8 Store apps (Diederik Krols)

  • "This article describes how to build user controls for XAML-based Windows 8 Store apps. User controls -or composite controls- are the easiest controls that you can roll yourself, since they're defined in plain XAML and come with design-time support in Visual Studio..."

• How to uniquely identify a Windows 8 device (Igor Kulman)

  • "When developing a Windows 8 app you may need to uniquely identify the device the app runs on. One reason may be the implementation of in-app purchases..."

• Visual Studio designer not working (NullReferenceException) in Windows Phone solution after WP8 SDK installation (Johan Silfversparre)

  • "I installed the SDK this weekend but ran into a frustrating problem when opening one of my WP7 solutions in Visual Studio 2012..."

Windows Phone App Development

• Internet Explorer 10 brings HTML5 to Windows Phone 8 in a big way (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

  • "As we celebrate the release of Windows Phone 8 around the globe, we would like to share some of the exciting new features that will make building feature-rich HTML5 sites and applications for Windows Phone 8 easier than ever..."

• Windows Phone 8: Evolution of the Runtime and Application Compatibility (Abhinaba Basu)

  • "Windows Phone 8 (WP8) is a huge huge change from Windows Phone 7.x (WP7). From the perspective of a WP7 application running on a WP8 device the system looks as follows..."

• Implementing Coupons and Memberships using the Windows Phone 8 Wallet: Part1 Coupons (Yordan Pavlov)

  • "The Wallet in Windows Phone 8 allows app developers to expose their apps to end users in yet another way. By using Wallet APIs developers can implement coupons and memberships in their apps that take advantage of the security and unified user experience that the Wallet offers..."

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• GL2DX (OpenGL to DirectX Wrapper Library) (CodePlex)

  • "GL2DX is a wrapper library that allows you to build your OpenGL app for WinRT. It implements a small subset of the OpenGL API by re-routing them to their DirectX equivalents. This allows you to re-use your existing drawing code on WinRT without having to replace it with DirectX..."

Other

• Noda Time v1.0 released (Jon Skeet)

  • "Today is the end of the longest release cycle I've been personally involved in. On November 5th 2009, I announced my intention to write a port of Joda Time for .NET. The next day, Noda Time was born - with a lofty (foolhardy) set of targets. Near the end of a talk about Noda Time this evening, I released Noda Time 1.0.0 ..."