Windows App Developer Links - 2013-03-05

Windows Store App Development

• Alive with activity, part 2: Writing and debugging services for live tiles (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• Delivering access to knowledge: Wikipedia (Windows Store for developers)

• Advanced MVVM concepts using Contoso Cookbook: An analysis of a complete MVVM application: Part 2 (Gill Cleeren)

• Binding to an ENUM in Windows 8 (Jerry Nixon)

• Data caching in Windows 8 apps (Igor Ralic)

• What Windows Azure Mobile Services can do for an app (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Modern ("Metro") Style Icons for Windows Phone and Windows 8 (Windows Phone 7 Nuggets)

• Microsoft DevRadio: Reactive Extensions for Windows 8 (Channel 9)

• Building Apps for Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8: (01a) Comparing Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Part 1 (Channel 9)

• Quick Hits Issue #5: Resources for App Developers and User Groups (G. Andrew Duthie)

• Windows 8 Development INFOKIT (Ibrahim Kivanc)

Windows Phone App Development

• Windows Phone Series - Incremental Loading (Rahul Nath)

• Persisting SkyDrive Login on Windows Phone 8 via LiveSDK (Lance Larsen)

Visual Studio 2012

• March CTP ("CTP4") of Visual Studio Update 2 now available (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• Now Available: Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (S. Somasegar)

Other

• Kanban customizable columns, "under the hood" (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)