Windows App Developer Links - 2013-04-16

Windows Store App Development

• Creating connected Windows Store apps (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) (Visual C++ Team Blog)

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

• MVVM - Does it really matter? (Rahul Nath)

• The last Visibility Converter (Nigel Sampson)

• Avoiding UI thread overload when using simulatenous async operations (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Testing Tip #6: Testing the Share Contract (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Determining Process Architecture at Runtime (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• A few design tips for "Early Learner" apps (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Inter-Process communication with protocol association in WinRT - Part 3 (Christophe Nasarre)

• [Windows 8] Insert a local CSS/JS file in the HTML of a Webview (Thomas LeBrun)

• Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: Adding Authentication (G. Andrew Duthie)

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 4) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps - Azure Mobile Services (Channel 9)

Windows Phone App Development

• ViewModel driven multi-state animations using DataTriggers and Blend on Windows Phone (Joost van Schaik)

• Accelerate cool app development with the Coding4Fun Toolkit (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Windows Phone Series - Preloading Content (Rahul Nath)

• [WPDev] CustomMessageBox + OnNavigatedTo + Navigate = Exception! (Jonathan Antione)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• In-App Purchase and Mobile Services (Josh Twist)

• Facebook SDK for .NET (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• TypeScript Compile and Minify Powershell Script (Geoff Webber-Cross)