Windows App Developer Links - 2013-07-10

Windows Store App Development

• 50 Apps by Christmas: SilverKeys - Porting a Silverlight App to a Windows Store App (Jason Roberts)

• Theming and Styling Your Windows Store App the Easy Way (Jason Roberts)

• PubCenter Updates For Your Windows Store (8.0) App's Ads Sizes (Jason Roberts)

• How to monitor upload/download SkyDrive operations with Live SDK for Windows Store apps (Marco Minerva)

• Async operations and progress updates (Marco Minerva)

Windows Phone App Development

• WP8 Speech - Exploring the MVVM pattern (Rob Chambers)

• Revisiting the Windows Phone Font Issue (Nick Randolph)

• Windows Phone SkyDrive Note (Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework)

• Windows Phone 8 Custom Style Button (Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• XAML Spy July 2013 Update (XAML Spy)

• Web Essentials 2013: Where is the TypeScript support? (Mads Kristensen)

• ScoreoidPortable Gets Secret Squirrel API Calls (Scott Lovegrove)

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 24) Practical Azure with Jim O'Neil - Windows Azure Mobile Services (Channel 9)

Visual Studio, Blend, TFS, & .NET

• Visual Studio 2013: Making IntelliSense Transparent While You Code (Zain Naboulsi)

• Visual Studio 2013 feature: Scrollbar Map Mode with Preview (Clemens Reijnen)

Other

• What is claims-based authentication? (Gunnar Peipman)

• Babylon.js: Using lights in your babylon.js game (David Catuhe)