Windows App Developer Links - 2013-07-04

Windows Store App Development

• //build/ 2013 recap (Windows App Builder Blog)

• WinRT/XAML Performance Fundamentals (Jonathan Allen)

• XAMLPerformance Fundamentals (Build 2013)

• Application Reliability in Windows Store Apps (Jonathan Allen)

• Making your Windows Store Apps More Reliable (Build 2013)

• Windows 8.1 RenderTargetBitmap (Geoff Webber-Cross)

• Diary of a Windows 8 App: Using HTML5 and JavaScript - Part 3 (Windows 8 Center)

• Diary of a Windows 8 App: Using HTML5 and JavaScript - Part 4 (Windows 8 Center)

• Screencast Trifecta: Publishing to the Windows Store (Jim O'Neil)

• Writing a Windows 8 App with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service (Alex McClure)

• How to realize dynamic font size for TextBlock in a Windows Store app (Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework)

Windows Phone App Development

• Build 2013 Windows Phone Session Round-Up (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• x86/ARM configuration gotcha in Windows Phone 8 projects when adding unit test projects (Joost van Schaik)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Microsoft DevRadio: APIMASH - StackExchange API Starter Kit for Windows Store Apps (Channel 9)

• Microsoft DevRadio: APIMASH - Chuck Norris & Rotten Tomatoes API Starter Kits for Windows Store Apps (Channel 9)

• Microsoft DevRadio: APIMASH - Instagram API Starter Kit for Windows Store Apps (Channel 9)

• The v1.4.0 Google APIs .NET library is now a Portable Class Library (PCL) And now uses TPL... (Greg Duncan)

Visual Studio, Blend, TFS, & .NET

• Welcome. Sign in to Visual Studio. (Visual Studio Blog)

• JavaScript/Native Interop Debugging in Visual Studio 2013 (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• C++ Conformance Roadmap (S. Somasegar)

• Using Visual Studio 2013 to write maintainable native visualizations (natvis) (Visual C++ Team Blog)

• C++11/14 STL Features, Fixes, And Breaking Changes In VS 2013 (Visual C++ Team Blog)

• NET 4.5.1 Is Bigger Than It Appears (Jeff Martin)