Windows App Developer Links - 2013-07-25

Windows Store App Development

• Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 Preview starting with the XAML templates (Windows App Builder Blog)

• Windows.Foundation.Collection Types, Part 2: Vectors and Vector Views (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Renew your Windows 8 Developer License before it expires (Michael Crump)

• Returning to a XAML Windows Store App (Ian Griffiths)

• Using the Windows Store App WebView Control with CSS (Christian Nagel)

• Windows Store App Logo Pack (Robert MacLean)

Windows Phone App Development

• Using Buddy with Windows Phone 8 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Windows Phone 8 App Development: Using Voice Commands (Gaston Hillar)

• Checking for updates from inside a Windows Phone app (Pedro Lamas)

• Introducing Windows Phone Developer Magazine (Nick Landry)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• PerfecTile has been updated for Windows 8.1 Apps (Nirmit Kavaiya)

• Introducing Babylon.GameFX - a framework to build HTML5 WebGL games in a few lines of code (David Rousset)

• Episode 74 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Azure Mobile Services Tools in Visual Studio 2013 (Robert Green)

Visual Studio, Blend, & TFS

• MSBuild is now part of Visual Studio! (Visual Studio Blog)