Windows App Developer Links - 2013-07-08

Windows Store App Development

• Build talk of the week: Beautiful apps at any size on any screen (Windows App Builder Blog)

• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #1: WebView for HTML (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #2: Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Hub control in Blend (Timmy Kokke)

• Threading in the Windows Runtime: Part 1 (Jonathan Allen)

• Threading in the Windows Runtime: Part 2 (Jonathan Allen)

• await Task, Task.Wait and Friends (Mike Taulty)

• Setting a value to null might be more dangerous than you think (David Anson)

• WinRT 8.1: Regional Settings Still Misbehave (Mikael Koskinen)

• Walkthrough: Two-way binding inside a XAML User Control (Jerry Nixon)

• Tutorial part 5: learning how to write a 3D software engine in C#, TS or JS - Flat & Gouraud Shading (David Rousset)

Windows Phone App Development

• Running the Windows Phone Emulator on Windows 8.1 Preview (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Windows Phone - Create a Windows Phone 8 Company Hub App (Tony Champion)

• On-the-fly updating of a data template selected by a DataTemplateSelector (Joost van Schaik)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Concurrency Visualizer now on the Gallery for VS2013 (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

Visual Studio, Blend, TFS, & .NET

• The Story of Synchronized Settings (Visual Studio Blog)

• What is New in Code Analysis for Visual Studio 2013 (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• Debugging Asynchronous Code in Visual Studio 2013 - Tasks Window (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• Visual Studio 2013 Preview: Options Dialog Changes (Zain Naboulsi)

• Immutable isn't just for parallel code (Jared Parsons)