Windows App Developer Links - 2013-02-19

Windows Store App Development

• Periodic Notifications with Windows Azure Mobile Services (Josh Twist)

• Implement a 'smart banner' for your Windows Store app (Tim Heuer)

• An overview of UI Controls from Win RT XAML Toolkit (Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed)

• Coming from WPF or Silverlight: What is the WinRT UI framework about? (Philip Schäfer)

• Keep the GridView under control with style and templates (Andrea Boschin)

• Store Certification Tip #8: Using Web Content (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Settings panel: Windows Store Apps JS/HTML and C#/XAML side by side (Iris Classon)

• Windows 8 App Templates Released (Mark Arteaga)

• Windows 8: Be a good sharing citizen (John V Petersen)

• Using First Time Data and Caching New Data in WinJS (Jeff Brand)

• I Just Want to Be Close To You - Initial Experiments with Proximity (Mike Taulty)

• Template of the week: Windows 8 Location/Finder App (Susan Ibach)

• The Ultimate Developer Resource for Windows 8, Windows Phone & Windows Azure (Ryan Lowdermilk)

• Relative URIs in Windows Store Apps-use a leading / (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• BUILD conference session about Windows Store Apps and WinRT (Christophe Nasarre)

• Microsoft DevRadio: Roaming Your Windows 8 App Data (Channel 9)

Windows Phone App Development

• Portable HttpClient for .NET Framework and Windows Phone (Immo Landwerth)

• Getting Started With Windows Phone 8 HTML5 Apps (Matthias Shapiro)

• Customize the Windows Phone ToggleButton (Nick Randolph)

• New Launchers in Windows Phone 8 (WindowsPhoneGeek)

• Parse JSON to C# in WinRT, Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone (Irina Pykhova)

• Windows Phone 8 : Identify Battery Status (Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• MVVM Light V4.1.27.0 in Nuget (Laurent Bugnion)

Visual Studio 2012

• Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Update (Scott Guthrie)

• Mixed Native and Managed Debugging Improvements for Windows Store Apps (Brad Sullivan)

Other

• MonoGame goes Portable (Simon Jackson)

• Targeting Mono in Visual Studio 2012 (Nathan Evans)