Windows App Developer Links - 2013-06-20

Windows Store App Development

• Create location aware apps using geolocation and Bing Maps (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• Blurring in XAML animations when switching view states (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• How to Avoid WinRT Activation Pitfalls (Christophe Nasarre)

• Printing a XAML ItemsControl from a Windows 8 Store app (Diederik Krols)

• Semantic Zoom (Channel 9)

• Preserving appdata across deploy and update (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• New Channel 9 video on the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit now online (Visual C++ Team Blog)

• Creating the Virtual Experiment Laboratory app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit (Channel 9)

• Update on disposables (Nigel Sampson)

• Windows Store app Development snack: XAMLSPY (Robert MacLean)

Windows Phone App Development

• Inside Windows Phone - Practical MVVM for Windows Phone (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Currency Converter for Windows Phone 7 (Pedro Lamas)

• Currency Converter v2 (Pedro Lamas)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Lotaris - a new way to get paid (Simon Jackson)