Windows App Developer Links - 2013-04-25

Windows Store App Development

• How to profile a JavaScript Windows Store App for performance problems (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• Using Visual Studio's Javascript Memory Analysis tool to find memory leaks on your Windows 8 Javascript app (David Catuhe)

• Using and abusing CallerMemberName (Nigel Sampson)

• #wp8tip: Adapt images to different resolutions (Andrea Boschin)

• Annotating PDF Documents in a Windows 8 Store App (Mike Taulty)

• Using WinJS.Navigation.history.current.initialPlaceholder = true (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Windows Phone App Development

• Using the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK to localize Windows Phone OS 7.1 projects (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 - The complete series (Matteo Pagani)

• Android to Windows 8: Top 10 tips for passing Windows Store certification (Jennifer Marsman)

• Android to Windows Phone 8 Part 6: Creating a Second Page (Adam Grocholski)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Use Mobile Services to easily schedule tasks in Windows Azure (Fin Cooper)

• UNITY, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Windows Azure (Lee Stott)

Free Training Materials

• Free Jump Start: May 2, 2013 - Windows Store App Essentials using C# (Microsoft Press)