Windows App Developer Links - 2013-08-09

posted on 08 Aug 2013 | App Developer Links

Windows

Microsoft redesigns Windows Store app listing website, lets you search for apps too (WinBeta)

Windows Phone

IDC: Windows Phone reinforces its third place position behind iOS and Android (WinBeta)

Windows Store App Development

Windows 8: Live Tiles, Services, Authentication (Mike Taulty)
Windows 8 Contracts and Extensions: Search (Tony Champion)
Cookie Isolation (Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient API) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
FTP Upload/Download of Text Files in MetroApps (CodeProject)

Windows Phone App Development

Accessing Windows Phone Settings from code (Rob Miles)
Windows Phone Tip: JSON to Data Contract Generator (Wei-Meng Lee)

.NET Development

Cancellable "awaiting" on .NET events continued (Ben Willi)
Documentation updates for .NET 4.5.1 (.NET Framework Blog)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

Announcing 0.9.1 (TypeScript Blog)
Azure Mobile Services & Portable Class Libraries - Part 1 Authentication (Shayne Boyer)
Missing Set method in MVVM Light (Toni Petrina)

Visual Studio, Blend, & TFS

Visual Studio 2013: Matching Braces (Zain Naboulsi)
Blend can't locate types in external assemblies (Corrado Cavalli)