Windows App Developer Links - 2013-04-15

Today marks two important things:

• My son Benjamin was born 5 months ago today.

• This is my 200th Windows Store Developer Links post.

Time sure does fly. :)

Windows Store App Development

• Feature Spotlight: Search (Windows Store for developers)

• Design-time Data for Windows Store Apps with C# (Jeremy Likness)

• Protecting Your Code (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Considerations for turning a web app into a Windows Store app (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Using Open Data in mobile apps: lessons learned (Andrei Marukovich)

• Sizing images while preserving aspect ratios (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 2 of 3 (Visual C++ Team Blog)

• Win8 XAML App : how to debug the javascript in a WebView! (Jonathan Antione)

• Integrating Marked Up analytics with Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)

• [Windows 8] Using a custom font in your Windows Store apps (Thomas LeBrun)

• More Dev Center features - we're listening (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

Windows Phone App Development

• First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 - Lazy loading with Panorama and Pivot (Matteo Pagani)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• WCF Data Services 5.4.0 Release (WCF Data Services Blog)

• AdRotator V2 progress report (Simon Jackson)

Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Now Available (S. Somasegar)

• .NET Memory Allocation Profiling with Visual Studio 2012 (.NET Framework Blog)

• XAML (Windows Store apps) editing in Visual Studio broken with NVIDIA Optimus (Robert MacLean)

• Build faster and high performing native applications using PGO (Visual C++ Team Blog)

TFS

• VS/TFS 2012.2 (Update 2) released today (Brian Harry's blog)

• Building and Validating Windows Store Apps with Team Foundation Service (Thomas LeBrun)