Windows App Developer Links - 2013-01-22

Windows 8

• How To See Disk Usage Of Apps In Window 8 (Rohit Shaw)

Windows Store App Development

• Building the Bing apps for Windows 8 (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• Updating Secondary Tiles using Background Task (Nisha Singh)

• Sharing data from a Windows Store App using WinRT API (Nisha Singh)

• Windows Store App with Caliburn.Micro - Basic Databinding (Phillip Haydon)

• Customized semantic zoom: an alternative to common grouping (Andrea Boschin)

• Deploying zipped data files with Windows 8 Store app (Andrei Marukovich)

• The Windows Store App margin guidelines cheat sheet (Iris Classon)

• Connecting your website to your Windows Store App with meta tags (Iris Classon)

• Using the Grid App Template in Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)

• How to use the Light Sensor in Windows 8 C#/XAML applications (Derik Whittaker)

• Using PhoneGap in Windows Store Applications (Mihail Mateev)

• Microsoft DevRadio: Integrating Bing Maps into Your Windows 8 apps (Channel 9)

• Microsoft DevRadio: Using Xamarin to Create the Draw a Stickman app for Windows 8 (Channel 9)

Windows Phone App Development

• 8 Tips for Designing Windows Phone Apps (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Starting WP Dev: Lesson 1 of n - Application Layout and Events Handling (Bandar Alsharfi)

• Starting WP Dev: Lesson 2 of n - Access to Application Isolated Local Storage (Bandar Alsharfi)

• Starting WP Dev: Lesson 3 of n - Navigation between Pages and passing Parameters (Bandar Alsharfi)

• Maps in Windows Phone 8 and Phone toolkit: a winning team - Part 1 (Matteo Pagani)

• Maps in Windows Phone 8 and Phone toolkit: a winning team - Part 2 (Matteo Pagani)

• Building an Imgur Client for Windows Phone - Part 1 - Core & Main Gallery (Den Delimarsky)

• Building an Imgur Client for Windows Phone - Part 2 - Infinite Image Scroll (Den Delimarsky)

• Building an Imgur Client for Windows Phone - Part 3 - Viewing Image Details (Den Delimarsky)

• Windows Phone 8: Contacts Integration (Peter Kuhn)

• Using SignalR on Windows Phone 7 (Toni Petrina)

• Copying Nokia's Photobeamer with SignalR and WP8 (Nico Vermeir)

• Windows Phone Background agent - Solving the InvalidOperationException (Mikael Koskinen)

• Silverlight Show Webinar on the New Features in the WP8 SDK Part 2 (Michael Crump)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Caliburn.Micro v1.4.1 Released (Rob Eisenberg)

Visual Studio 2012

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (KB2707250): New Features (Zain Naboulsi)