Windows App Developer Links - 2013-04-10
Windows Store App Development
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Developing Windows Store games (Windows 8 app developer blog)
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Building Secure Windows Store Apps (Andrei Marukovich)
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WinRT Sharing with Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)
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Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 1 (Why doesn't StorageFile have a close method?) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
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Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 2: My God, what are all those stream types about? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
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Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 3: What are these buffer things? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
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Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 4: don't streams and buffers make file I/O complicated? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
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Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 5: What are MSStream and Blob objects in HTML5? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
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Windows 8 (or XAML generally): Loading Images with Progress/Fallback Content (Mike Taulty)
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28 days in - Windows Store Analytics for my Balloons game (David Isbitski)
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Push Notifications for Specific Users (Jeremy Foster)
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The Slider's Guide to the MVVM Galaxy (Diederik Krols)
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Stupid Question 164: What is the difference between Telemetry and Analytics data in RE to Windows Store Apps? (Iris Classon)
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Microsoft DevRadio: Develop Apps for Windows 8 & Windows Phone with Tiggzi (Channel 9)
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Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 2) UX Guidance for Handling Large Data in Windows 8 Apps (Channel 9)
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Microsoft DevRadio: How to Include Advertising in Your Windows 8 apps (Channel 9)
Windows Phone App Development
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First steps with Caliburn Micro - The Application Bar (Matteo Pagani)
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Debugging binding issues is hard. Having simpler code makes it easier (Matt Lacey)
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10 Tips for designing your mobile APIs (Matt Lacey)
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Updating App to Windows Phone 8 Using a Startup Project (Mikael Koskinen)
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Unit testing async Windows Phone 8 code on the UI thread with VS 2012.2 CTP4 (Joost van Schaik)
Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries
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NuGet Package of the Week #13 - Portable HttpClient makes portable libraries more useful (Scott Hanselman)
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Okra App Framework v0.9.6 Released (Andrew Wilkinson)
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Improvements in Version 0.9.6 of the Okra App Framework (Andrew Wilkinson)