Windows App Developer Links - 2012-11-14
posted on 14 Nov 2012
| App Developer Links
Windows Store App Development
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31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #13: Navigation (Jeff Blankenburg)
"In fact, in the first 12 days of this series, we've spent very little time talking about how to do one of the most common activities we'll encounter in Windows 8 development: navigating between XAML pages..."
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Windows 8 Store Apps - Debugging Background Tasks (Mike Taulty)
"I'm sure this is written down somewhere but I've not come across it so I thought I'd write it down here. At our UK Windows 8 Camps we talk about the process lifecycle for a Windows 8 Store app and how a developer needs to think about the steps of suspend/resume/terminate for an app..."
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Windows Store apps Development Tutorial (Part 9) - Share Contract using DataTransferManager (Kunal Chowdhury)
"If you are a Windows 8 Store application and/or game developer, you may want to provide feature to share text, graphics, links or game score cards to Facebook, Twitter or Email. Windows 8 SDK provides those APIs to implement the feature in your application..."
Windows Phone App Development
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Windows Phone 8 - Fast app resume (Tore Lervik)
"Fast app resume makes app behave more like they do in Windows 8 when clicking on the app tile. In this example we are resuming the app to where we left it..."
Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries
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Class Browser Plus - A Windows 8 Developer's Utility (Russell Archer)
"Class Browser Plus is a Windows 8 Developer's utility that enables you to view the properties, methods and events (along with help text) for all Windows 8 classes..."
Other
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Scaling cloud apps with the .NET Framework 4.5 (.NET Framework Blog)
"Richard Lander, a program manager for the Common Language Runtime, explains a few best practices that can result in fantastic scaling by applying very simple coding patterns around the .NET Framework 4.5 asynchrony feature..."
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IE10: Fast, Fluid, Perfect for Touch, and Available Now for Windows 7 (IEBlog)
"With the IE10 Release Preview for Windows 7 consumers can now enjoy a fast and fluid Web with the updated IE10 engine on their Windows 7 devices. The release preview of IE10 on Windows 7 is available for download today..."