Windows App Developer Links - 2013-03-08

posted on 07 Mar 2013 | App Developer Links

Windows Store App Development

Using XAML with DirectX and C++ in Windows Store Apps (Doug Erickson)
Using OData in a Windows Store App (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Sharing code: adding navigationservice (Sara Silva)
Unity 4 Early Access for Windows Store apps (Unity Blog)
MetroAppSite: Free, Open Source Metro-Style Website Templates for Your Windows Store Apps (Aaron Stannard)

Windows Phone App Development

First steps with Caliburn Micro - Messaging (Matteo Pagani)

Apps to Look At

Windows Store app highlight: AppSwitch, finds apps similar to the apps on Android and iOS (WinBeta)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

Portable.Licensing is a cross platform software licensing framework which allows you to implement licensing into your application or library. (GitHub)
HealthVault Library for Windows 8 (CodePlex)
Introducing the ReSharper 8 EAP (JetBrains)

Other

Building your app version defense strategy - Part I (Josh Twist)