Windows App Developer Links - 2013-08-16

Windows

• Mark your calendars for Windows 8.1! (Blogging Windows)

• Everything you need, right from (the) Start (Windows Experience Blog)

• Here are some of the new things in Windows 8.1 (Jerry Nixon)

Windows Store App Development

• Walkthrough: Let's build a control like that awesome new one in Windows 8.1. (Jerry Nixon)

• What happened to [your favorite] sample in Windows 8.1 Preview? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Windows Store Apps and SQLite for x86, x64 and ARM (Wriju)

• How to put a ProgressRing over a WebView in Windows Store app (Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework)

Windows Phone App Development

• Inside Windows Phone 61 - Building for Windows Phone and Windows 8 - The Basics (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Creating a UI for Background Transfer Requests (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

Cross Platform App Development

• Windows 8, Windows Phone 8: Building for Both (Mike Taulty)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit Updated to v3.1.0 (Pedro Lamas)

Visual Studio, Blend, & TFS

• What's new in Visual Studio 2013 and InstallShield Limited Edition (Visual Studio Blog)

• Visual Studio 2013 - My 3 favourite new code editor features (Visual Studio UK Team)

• Visual Studio 2013: TODO Comments and Custom Tokens in the Task List (Zain Naboulsi)