Windows App Developer Links - 2013-08-20

Windows Store App Development

• Building a Windows 8 App: Phase 1 (Nathalie Goh-Livorness)

• Windows 8 XAML Tips - Inline data-driving Unit Testing (Fons Sonnemans)

• Windows Store App: Creating User Control using XAML and C# (Mahesh Sabnis)

• From Isolated Storage to LocalFolder - Getting Folder Size (Peter Foot)

• Updated NotificationsExtensions WnsRecipe Nuget to support Windows 8.1 templates now available (Nick Harris)

Windows Phone App Development

• Windows Phone Statistics Report for August 2013 (AdDuplex Blog)

• A behavior to animate folding in and out of GUI elements on Windows Phone (Joost van Schaik)

• Extension methods to animate scaling and opacity on Windows Phone (Joost van Schaik)

.NET Development

• Improving NET Application Startup Speed (Jeff Martin)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Introducing NuGet Concierge (NuGet Blog)

• DualApi Finder or listing winRT types usable by Desktop Apps (Christophe Nasarre)