Windows App Developer Links - 2013-06-24

Windows Store App Development

• Walkthrough: Windows 8 Extended Splash Screen (Jerry Nixon)

• Web Authentication Broker for any service (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Testing Tip #9: using progress indicators and slow connections (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Obscure WinJS features, pt 1: Utilities.QueryCollection and Utilities.add/remove/has/toggleClass (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Inter-Process Silent Communication in WinRT - Part 4 (Christophe Nasarre)

• Data Binding in Windows 8 Compared to Android (Hanu Kommalapati)

• Android to Windows 8: Working with Key Value Pairs (Adam Grocholski)

• Simplifying debug statements (Nigel Sampson)

• Create a Hub Tile Control for WinRT XAML (Sebastien Pertus)

• Windows (RT and Phone) and Sqlite (Part 1) (Nick Randolph)

• Windows (RT and Phone) and Sqlite (Part 2) (Nick Randolph)

• Windows (RT and Phone) and Sqlite (Part 3) (Nick Randolph)

• Build Your Own Bing Maps API Mash-Up: Architecture (Jim O'Neil)

Windows Phone App Development

• How to apply a background to a Panorama using binding (Matteo Pagani)

• Declaring your DataContext in markup (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• A new SQLite wrapper for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 - The basics (Matteo Pagani)

• Thoughts on PCLs (Portable Class Libraries) (Jared Bienz)

Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2013, ALM, and DevOps (S. Somasegar)

• Visual Studio 2013 (Brian Harry)

• VS 2013 round tripping (Brian Harry)