Windows App Developer Links - 2013-04-23

posted on 22 Apr 2013 | App Developer Links

Windows Store App Development

Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Handling asynchronous operations (Andrea Boschin)
HttpClient Basic Authentication for WinRT (Mikael Koskinen)
A convention-based data template selector for Windows 8 XAML Store apps (Diederik Krols)
Now with Javascript: Reading PDF and XPS on your Windows 8 application using WinRT (David Catuhe)
Testing Tip #7: Simulating a metered connection (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Previewing image uploads with FileReader in HTML5 (Michael Williamson)
Validating all observables w/ Knockout validation and Typescript (Derik Whittaker)
Solved Exception in Passing Relative URI to Windows Runtime (Dhananjay Kumar)

Windows Phone App Development

Creating a Custom ToastPrompt Control for Windows Phone (Den Delimarsky)
Windows Phone app submission "signing failed" (Matt Lacey)
How to start Windows Phone 8 Emulator without Visual Studio (Luis Cantero)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

MVVM Stack for WinJS by Corrado Cavalli available on Codeplex (Davide Zordan)

Visual Studio

Learn IntelliTrace (Visual Studio ALM + Team Foundation Server Blog)