Windows App Developer Links - 2013-07-11
Windows
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Windows at WPC 2013 (Blogging Windows)
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Microsoft confirms Windows 8.1 to RTM by August (Mary Jo Foley)
Windows Store App Development
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Cutting through the noise (Jeremy Foster)
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Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #5: Device Access (Kraig Brockschmidt)
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XAML Flyouts using Blend for Visual Studio 2013 (Timmy Kokke)
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Creating XAML Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2013 (Tim Heuer)
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Unofficial Windows 8 vs Windows 8.1 Assemblies - What's the Diff.... - (Greg Duncan)
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Developers have 180 days to address security issues in their Windows 8 or Windows Phone app (WinBeta)
Windows Phone App Development
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The Mystery of the Disappearing Images in the Emulator (Scott Lovegrove)
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Windows Phone 8 Background Agents (Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework)
Cross Platform App Development
- Roaring for the Lions: Creating a reusable, extensible app development platform using Windows Azure (MSDN UK Team)
Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries
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Practical Azure #24: Windows Azure Mobile Services (Jim O'Neil)
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RIA has been freed - RIA Services is being open sourced, say hello to "Open RIA Services" (Greg Duncan)
Visual Studio, Blend, TFS, & .NET
Other
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C# Performance Benchmark Mistakes, Part One (Eric Lippert)
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C# Performance Benchmark Mistakes, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
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C# Performance Benchmark Mistakes, Part Three (Eric Lippert)