Windows App Developer Links - 2013-06-26

Today is the first day of the 2013 Microsoft Build Developer Conference.

Channel 9 will be live streaming the keynotes at 9AM PDT June 26th (today) and 9AM PDT June 27th.

Windows Store App Development

• All about promises (for Windows Store apps written in JavaScript) (Windows 8 App Developer Blog)

• Feature Spotlight: Live Tiles (Windows Store for developers)

• Windows Store Line-of-Business App Deployment via Windows Intune (Premier Field Engineering Developer Blog)

• Buzzing Beyond iOS, Android (Windows 8 Center)

• Simple Validation with MVVM for Windows Store apps (Jeremy Likness)

• Getting a Game Rating Certificate for Windows Store and Windows Phone (G. Andrew Duthie)

• Minimizing Billable Transactions with Bing Maps (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Countries where Bing Maps is banned (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Placeholder product IDs for in-app purchases (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Two bits: system colors and the TileUpdater.clear() method (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Walkthrough: Reordering items in a GridView with Drag and Drop (Jerry Nixon)

• Using the CustomMessageBox in OnBackKeyPressed (Scott Lovegrove)

• Coding4Fun Toolkit: Introducing SuperImage (Scott Lovegrove)

• Coding4Fun Toolkit: Introducing LockScreenPreview (Scott Lovegrove)

• Tip: Nokia Ad Exchange (NAX) and Annoying Unhandled Exceptions (Scott Lovegrove)

• Prism for WinRT Applications - Sketchy Explorations (Mike Taulty)

• Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps - Authentication Tips and Tricks (Channel 9)

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 1) APIMASH Starter Kit - Building a Meetup / Bing Maps Windows App (Channel 9)

Windows Phone App Development

• Windows Phone 8 Samples Update (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Remote HTML5 debugging on Windows Phone with weinre (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Building the iOS 7 parallax background on Windows Phone (Nigel Sampson)

• ShellTile.ActiveTiles sometimes forgets about one of the tiles (Matt Lacey)

Other

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

• NuGet Package Restore Issues (.NET Framework Blog)