Windows App Developer Links - 2013-04-30

Windows Store App Development

• WinRT Business Apps with Prism: App State Management (Brian Noyes)

• Prism for Windows Runtime: Integrating a Dependency Injection Container (Francis Cheung)

• Launching Skype from your own Windows Store App (Geert van der Cruijsen)

• Caveats with form elements (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• #Win8Dev Tutorial: Programmatically download a File in WinRT apps (Kunal Chowdhury)

• Develop High Performance Windows 8 Application with HTML5 and JavaScript | Best Practices & Tips (Dr. Doris Chen)

• HTML5 Gaming: benchmarking your sprites animations to target all devices & browsers (David Rousset)

• Register now: Free live Q&A session with Charles Petzold on Tuesday (Microsoft Press)

Windows Phone App Development

• How to manage orientation in Windows Phone using VisualStateManager (Matteo Pagani)

• 8 Great Reasons to Design for Windows Phone 8 (Sarah Lamb)

• Windows Phone 8-flickR searching demo from UK Dev Camps (Mike Taulty)

• Additional Windows Phone 8 Application Bar icons! (Kristina Rothe)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• NuGet for C++ (Visual C++ Team Blog)

Other

• My modern "Start Screen" (Part 1) (Jose Fajardo)

• Walking While Working (Steve Smith)