Windows App Developer Links - 2013-04-09

Hopefully you can bear with me as today's links aren't as fresh as usual. I will be working through a backlog of several hundred items over the next few days.

That'll teach me to go on vacation. ;)

Windows Store App Development

• Lessons Learned About Capturing Keystrokes in Windows 8 (Jeff Blankenburg)

• Lessons Learned in Windows 8 Scaling (Jeff Blankenburg)

• Alive with Activity, Part 3: Push notifications and Windows Azure Mobile Services (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8-Application Lifecycles (Mike Taulty)

• Windows 8 Storing Data With SQLite (Jesse Liberty)

• Smooth Streaming Client SDK for Windows 8 (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Mixing links and flyouts in Settings (WinJS) (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Saving Credentials from the Credential Picker (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 1) UX Guidance for Handling Large Data in Windows 8 Apps (Channel 9)

Windows Phone App Development

• Build Apps for Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Using the SQLite database engine with Windows Phone 8 apps (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Debugging C++ components in Windows Phone 8 projects (Toni Petrina)

• First steps with Caliburn Micro - Use your own services and how to pass data between different pages (Matteo Pagani)

• First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 - Using launchers and choosers (Matteo Pagani)

• Online privacy when building apps for kids (Matt Lacey)

• Using a complimentary accent color (Matt Lacey)

• Simple reverse geocoding with Windows Phone 8 and MVVMLight (Joost van Schaik)

• Using PowerShell to automate the build process of your Windows Phone app (Jeremy Alles )

• Missing OpenStreamForWriteAsync on my StorageFile (Matthias Shapiro)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Azure Mobile Services: Pre-Release .NET Client Libraries with WP7.5 and PCL Support (Mike Taulty)

• Authentication Issues with Windows Azure Mobile Services (Nick Randolph)

• Build a Following for Your App - Before You Launch! (Jim O'Neil)

Other

• "Invoke the method with await"... ugh! (Stephen Toub)

• Designing for Multiple Form Factors (Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog)

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