Windows App Developer Links - 2013-07-26

Windows Store App Development

• The new AppBar in Windows 8.1 XAML Store apps (Marco Minerva)

• Settings Flyout from Blend for Visual Studio 2013 (Timmy Kokke)

Windows Phone App Development

• Proximity in Windows Phone 8 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

Cross Platform App Development

• Major upgrades to Xamarin's platform: Async is here (Miguel de Icaza)

• Xamarin.Mobile: new, improved and open-sourced (Craig Dunn)

.NET Development

• Advise the .NET Framework Team (.NET Framework Blog)

• Stupid Question 223: How do you do type forwarding in C#? (Iris Classon)

Visual Studio, Blend, & TFS

• Windows Azure Mobile Services in Visual Studio 2013 (Visual Studio Blog)

Apps to Look At

• The new Fresh Paint comes to Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone (Windows Experience Blog)

Books

• New book: Windows Phone 8 Development Internals (Microsoft Press)