Windows App Developer Links - 2012-12-13

posted on 13 Dec 2012 | App Developer Links

Windows Store App Development

  • Sharing from your app (Windows 8 app developer blog)

    • "In Windows 8, sharing is a ubiquitous experience and a natural user expectation. Users often come across content in your app that they're excited to share with friends or use in another app. As a developer you can meet this user expectation by using the Share contract which provides a lightweight, contextual and easy model for accomplishing app-to-app sharing..."

  • Expanding our commitment to Windows Store games (Windows Store for developers)

    • "Today the Windows Store begins accepting games with a rating of PEGI 18. Windows has long been a favorite platform for games of all types, and age rating support for PEGI 18 is another step forward in a rich tradition of supporting gaming on Windows..."

  • Windows 8: Adding An AppBar to Conference Buddy (Jesse Liberty)

    • "In the most recent posting, we looked at a wire-frame that illustrated some of the data we'll be collecting. The user fills in the fields, but then how does the user indicate Save or Cancel? It would be tempting to add buttons right beneath the data entry form, but the design guidelines call for keeping Chrome, including such buttons, out of sight. ... As you've guessed, the answer is to add an AppBar to the application..."

  • Certificate for WinRT devices and non-domain member devices (Windows PKI blog)

    • "Hi there, I am a test engineer in the Windows team working on certificate enrollment related areas. Today I want to talk about certificates for Windows RT devices..."

  • INFO: Spreadsheet of Windows 8/RT Tablet Devices & Capabilities (Kurt Shintaku)

    • "This is a list of all the Windows 8/RT Tablet devices that I am aware of as of December 12, 2012. I created this because I wanted an easy way to quickly filter on certain technical requirements and see what models were available..."

Windows Phone App Development

  • App Certification Holiday Schedule: Open for Business (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

    • "With the holidays rapidly approaching, I wanted to confirm that the Windows Phone Store will be open for business during the holiday timeframe..."

  • Complete Guide to Windows Phone StringFormat Binding (Matthias Shapiro)

    • "I wrote a post on this for Silverlight way back in the day but thought it would be good to do an update for Windows Phone. Are you tired of using two TextBlocks when you could be using just one?..."

  • Windows Phone StringFormat Binding And Blend (Matthias Shapiro)

    • "This is a simple, straight-forward walk-through for doing StringFormat binding in Blend. It is meant to go along with my much more comprehensive post on StringFormat binding for Windows Phone..."

Apps to Look At

  • AppMock by Telerik (Windows Store)

    • "Telerik AppMock allows you to quickly and easily create prototypes of your Windows Store applications..."

  • Code Writer (Windows Store)

    • "Code Writer is a free text and code editor app with active syntax highlighting that updates as you edit documents and has 20 supported file types..."

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

  • Announcing Visual Studio Achievements For Windows 8 App Development (Channel 9)

    • "We are excited to announce an update to the Visual Studio Achievements extension: the availability of nineteen new achievements all oriented toward Windows 8 app development..."

  • Jeff's Top 5 XAML Tools (Jeffrey Smith)

    • "Whether you're a developer or designer, 3rd party tools can improve productivity and just make life easier. Here you will find my top 5 tools I use on a day to day basis. Hopefully you will find them as useful as I do!..."

  • Windows 8-Updated flickR Search Demo in HTML/JS (Mike Taulty)

    • "In a lot of the Windows 8 sessions that I've given around the UK I've been building out a simple demo app that searches on flickR for some photos..."