Windows App Developer Links - 2013-02-14

Windows 8

• State of the Windows Store, February 2013 (Andrei Marukovich)

Windows Store App Development

• Simple golden rules for async / await (Nigel Sampson)

• Windows Store App - Adding Advertising (Phillip Haydon)

• Windows 8: Working with Semantic Zoom using C# and XAML (Mahesh Sabnis)

• Win 8 - Conference Buddy. Storing to Local or Roaming Files (Jesse Liberty)

• Parsing JSON data from Windows 8 (Bruno Terkaly)

• Windows Store App Enterprise Deployment mini-guide (Iris Classon)

• Windows 8 App Madness Challenge (Jim O'Neil)

Windows Phone App Development

• Make your app more attractive to customers in the Windows Phone Store (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• DesignData makes your life easier (Christian Froehlich)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Eight.js - v1.2 (CodePlex)

Visual Studio 2012

• Update to VS Git tooling (Brian Harry)

• Run CI builds in your Git team project (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)