Windows App Developer Links - 2013-07-16

Windows Store App Development

• Energy Consumption tool in Visual Studio 2013 (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• XAML UI Responsiveness tool in Visual Studio 2013 (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• Performance and Diagnostics Hub in Visual Studio 2013 (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• Resources for Migrating [your Windows Store App] to 8.1 (Jerry Nixon)

• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #8: Files & Tiles (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #9: Search and Sizing (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Instrumenting Your Application - Part 7: Injecting EventSource into WCF Service Calls (Dan Moyer)

• The colors of Windows Store Apps- style names and colors in WinRT (Iris Classon)

Windows Phone App Development

• Nokia Imaging SDK - Now Available (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Inside Windows Phone - Motion design using the Windows Phone Toolkit (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Reimagining images with the Nokia Imaging SDK for Windows Phone 8 (Greg Duncan)

• How to create transparent glass button in WP8 (Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework)

• Android to Windows Phone 8: Working with a SQL Database (Eric Genesky)

Cross Platform App Development

• Building your First App with Xamarin.iOS (Michael Crump)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• HttpClient 2.2 is now RC (.NET Framework Blog)

• Azure Mobile Services-Custom APIs and URI Paths (Mike Taulty)

Visual Studio, Blend, TFS, & .NET

• Visual Studio 2013: Drag and Drop Code Onto the Toolbox (Zain Naboulsi)

• Overview of Related Files in Blend (Visual Studio Blog)