Windows App Developer Links - 2013-06-21

Windows

• Continuing the Windows 8 vision with Windows 8.1 (Blogging Windows)

• Free Touch or Type Cover with the purchase of Surface RT this month in US & Canada (Surface Blog)

Windows Store App Development

• Credential Locker: Your solution for handling usernames and passwords (Windows 8 App Developer Blog)

• Helping Android developers build Windows Store apps (Windows Store for developers)

• Windows 8 and Beyond: Sharing App Content using MVVM and the Okra App Framework (Andrew Wilkinson)

• Wherefore art thou, "Composite Application Guidance"? (Mike Taulty)

• Announcing WOWAPI and APIMASH - free Starter Kits for your Windows Store Apps (David Isbitski)

• Win8/XAML: how to create a TextBlock with clickables hyperlinks in it (Jonathan Antione)

• Build a Windows 8 Mashup App with Bing Maps (Jim O'Neil)

• Diary of a Windows 8 App: iOS Port (Rick Leinecker)

• Diary of a Windows 8 App: iOS Port - Part 2 (Rick Leinecker)

• Diary of a Windows 8 App: iOS Port - Part 3 (Rick Leinecker)

• Diary of a Windows 8 App: iOS Port - Part 4 (Rick Leinecker)

• Diary of a Windows 8 App: iOS Port - Part 5 (Rick Leinecker)

Windows Phone App Development

• SQLite WinRT wrapper for Windows Phone (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Workaround for selecting the last vertex of a Windows Phone MapPolyline (Joost van Schaik)

• Win phones for getting your PhoneGap app running on Windows Phone (Matt Lacey)

• Using DataTemplate for visualizing a single item (Toni Petrina)

• Microsoft.Bcl.Async doesn't work in VS 2012 with XNA projects (Toni Petrina)

Apps to Look At

• //BUILD app for Windows in the Windows Store (Thomas Martinsen)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Get /httpclient/rtm - 200 OK (.NET Framework Blog)

Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2012.3 RC2 available (Brian Harry)

Other

• Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) - Under the Hood (Visual C++ Team Blog)

• Optimizing C++ Code (Visual C++ Team Blog)