Windows App Developer Links - 2013-07-19

Windows Store App Development

• What's new in WebView in Windows 8.1 (Windows App Builder Blog)

• Windows 8.1: Data Binding (Tony Champion)

• Windows 8.1: The Hub Control (Tony Champion)

• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #12: Grab bag wrap-up (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• What's new when using TextBox XAML control in Windos 8.1 Store apps (Marco Minerva)

• Windows 8.1: Using new AppBar and CommandBar controls (Zubair Ahmed)

• Windows Store apps in HTML and XAML: Application bars, flyouts and other amenities (Andrea Boschin)

• Building Games for Windows 8 with MonoGame - Part 1: Introduction (Tom Clifton)

Windows Phone App Development

• Windows Phone 8 Samples July Update (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Windows Phone 8 App Development: Getting Started (Gaston Hillar)

• APIMASH: Porting to Windows Phone 8 (Jim O'Neil)

.NET Development

• No new VB and C# Language Features in VS 2013 (The Visual Basic Team)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

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

• Bing at //build 2013 In Review (Bing Dev Center Team Blog)

Visual Studio, Blend, & TFS

• Visual Studio 2013 Diagnostics Investments (Visual Studio Blog)

• Visual Studio Tips for HTML web or windows developers: ZenCoding (Susan Ibach)

• Visual Studio 2013: Quick Launch (Zain Naboulsi)

• Visual Studio 2013: Reference Highlighting (Zain Naboulsi)