Windows App Developer Links - 2012-12-18

posted on 18 Dec 2012 | App Developer Links

Windows Store App Development

  • From the MVPs: Different deployment options in Windows 8 (Peter Ritchie)

    • "If you're used to some other app store or hub/portal-based deployment models, you might think that an externally hosted "store" might be the only option for deploying Windows 8 apps. That's simply not the case. Windows 8 isn't just about consumer footprint devices; it's also about corporate and line of business (LOB) applications..."

  • Windows 8-Grid View (Jesse Liberty)

    • "GridView is one of the most powerful out-of-the-box controls in Windows 8, but fully understanding how to use it is not necessarily trivial..."

  • Open Mail software and send Email (Janne Rautiola)

    • "I wanted to create a built-in feedback/error reporting feature in my application. In WinRT we can't really launch the mail software with specific parameters so what we must do instead is to use Launcher class and call LaunchUriAsync method with mailto syntax..."

  • Settings Panes and the Okra App Framework (Andrew Wilkinson)

    • "In this post (the first of two) I will describe how you can use the Okra App Framework to add custom settings panes to your Windows Store application, in particular taking advantage of the MVVM pattern. In my following post I will show you how to easily design a settings UI consistent with the built-in Windows applications..."

  • Windows 8 Persisting Conference Buddy JSON To A File (Jesse Liberty)

    • "In my most recent posting on Conference Buddy, I showed how to store the data we'll be accumulating in JSON format. Today, I'll show how to write that JSON data to a file for local storage..."

Windows Phone App Development

  • Windows Phone 8 Company Portal App (Microsoft Download Center)

    • "The Windows Phone 8 Company Portal App enables Windows Phone 8 devices which are managed by Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 and Windows Intune to be able to view and install line of business applications targeted to the Windows Phone 8 devices by their administrators..."

  • Windows Phone 8 Developer Resources (Mohamed Yamama)

    • "Since the latest Windows Phone 8.0 SDK release , resources and documentation for Windows Phone 8 development have been increasing day after the other. I have worked on collecting these resources and putting them together and sharing them with you. I hope I didn't miss a thing..."

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