Windows App Developer Links - 2013-04-22

Windows Store App Development

• Develop a cutting edge app with NFC (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Intro and Considerations (GeekChamp)

• All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Static Tiles and Tile Icons (GeekChamp)

• All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Tile Properties (GeekChamp)

• Create app bar button icons using Segue UI Symbols font (Toni Petrina)

• Code snippet for testing network connectivity (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Behavior of Windows.System.Display.displayRequest.requestActive applies only to the foreground app (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Construct 2 Tip #2: Settings Flyouts (Jim O'Neil)

Windows Phone App Development

• Inside Windows Phone - code samples (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Facebook SDK for .NET - Featured in the Facebook Technology Partner program (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Windows Phone 8 navigation part 1-geocoding, tombstoning-and testing (Joost van Schaik)

• Using different WMAppManifest files for release and debug builds (Toni Petrina)

• WP Toolkit : Adding a item in the SelectedItems collection of a LongListMultiSelector actually adds 2 items... (Jonathan Antione)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• My essential tools and resources for Windows 8 & Windows Phone development (Nigel Sampson)

• jQuery 2.0 Released (jQuery Blog)