Windows App Developer Links - 2013-02-13

Windows Store App Development

• Manage network connectivity in Windows Store apps (Andrea Boschin)

• Testing Tip #2: Varied network connectivity (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Comparing the HTML File/File System APIs and WinRT file system APIs (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Windows 8 Apps: Working with Toast Notifications (Mahesh Sabnis)

• Coding4Fun: building a Tetris-like game using CSS Grid Layout & Blend 5 (David Rousset)

• WinRT, Caliburn.Micro and IoC - Part 1 (Ninject) (Tom Baker)

• Free Windows 8 Design Templates are back (Fabien Lavocat)

Windows Phone App Development

• Windows Phone 8: NFC (Near Field Communication) (Peter Kuhn)

• Build a Windows Phone 8 App for Stock Market Analysis and Future Prediction (Laurence Moroney)

• MVVM for Windows Phone Developers - Use it Guys! (Part 1) (Ilija Injac)

• Setting up Unit Testing in Windows Phone 7 and 8 (Michael Crump)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• PhoneGap 2.4.0 Released (PhoneGap Blog)

• Player Framework for Windows 8 and WP8 (v1.1) (CodePlex)

• Coding4Fun Toolkit v2.0.1 (CodePlex)

Other

• MonoGame is The One (Dominique Louis)