Windows App Developer Links - 2013-01-23

posted on 23 Jan 2013 | App Developer Links

Windows Store App Development

Optimize Windows Store application startup with a waiting splash screen (Andrea Boschin)
Traits of a good Windows Store app privacy policy (Pete Brown)
Windows 8 Development Tips #7: Get creative with grid item sizes (Brent Schooley)
How to use the Gyrometer Sensor in Windows 8 C#/XAML applications (Derik Whittaker)
Printing from MVVM XAML Windows 8 Store apps - the final frontier (Diederik Krols)
Tip: a common error with Dependency Property metadata (Andrea Boschin)
The Five Minute Gauge Control for Winrt/Xaml (Filip Skakun)
Microsoft DevRadio: Building Your Windows 8 Apps with XAML and Blend (Channel 9)
Windows 8 Resources (Lee Stott)

Windows Phone App Development

Now Available: Windows Phone SDK Update for 7.8 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)
Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8 Live Tile light up for Windows Phone OS 7.1 apps (Windows Phone Developer Blog)
Migrating iOS MVC Applications to Windows Phone 8 (M-V-VM architecture) (Bruno Terkaly)
A Windows Phone 8 Project Template Without the Fluff (Michael Crump)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

Patterns & practices Kona Guidance (aka Prism for WinRT) (CodePlex)
Windows Phone Samples: learn through code (Windows Phone Dev Center)

Free Training Materials

Bing Maps for Windows Store Apps Training Kit (Ricky Brundritt)