Windows App Developer Links - 2013-07-18

posted on 17 Jul 2013 | App Developer Links

Windows Store App Development

Windows Store apps in HTML and XAML: Work with style(s) (Andrea Boschin)
HTML UI Responsiveness tool in Visual Studio 2013 (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)
Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #11: Calendar & Contacts (and other contracts) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Private App Stores for Windows Phone and WinRT (Jonathan Allen)
Migrating iOS Applications to Windows 8: Controlling the Appearance of Your User Interface Controls (Bruno Terkaly)
Windows 8 to 8.1 App Considerations: Screen Size (Brian Hitney)
Incremental Loading with GridView in Windows 8 (Rohit Sharma)
Visual Studio 2013 Simplifies Windows Store Apps Development with Improved Exception Reporting (Anand Narayanaswamy)

Windows Phone App Development

In-App Purchasing for Windows Phone 8 (Michael Crump)
How to Terminate WP8 Application Programmatically? (Kunal Chowdhury)
How to enable Text-to-Speech (TTS) in your #WP8 app (Kunal Chowdhury)

.NET Development

Responsible for a million dollar software project, but don't know where to start? (.NET Framework Blog)
Correctly Building Asynchronous Libraries in .NET (Jonathan Allen)
Lock vs. Mutex (Sasha Goldshtein)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

Introducing Storage Client Library 2.1 RC for .NET and Windows Phone 8 (Windows Azure Storage Team Blog)

Visual Studio, Blend, & TFS

JavaScript Editor Improvements in Visual Studio 2013 Preview (Visual Studio Blog)