Windows App Developer Links - 2013-08-26

Microsoft

• Microsoft CEO Ballmer to retire in the next 12 months (Mary Jo Foley)

Windows Store App Development

• Getting Started with Mobility, Part 5: Native Windows 8 (David Pallmann)

• Windows 8.1 Store Apps and Visual Studio 2013 Preview - #1 of Many, Many, Many (Mike Taulty)

• Making a StorageFile read-only (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Windows Phone App Development

• Getting Started with Mobility, Part 4: Native Windows Phone (David Pallmann)

• At Unite, enjoy expert Windows and Windows Phone help in porting your games (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Top 3 Tips for Creating Revenue Generating Windows Phone Apps (Richard Hay)

• Local machine connectivity from Windows Phone 8 Emulator (Samidip Basu)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• NuGet 2.7 Released (NuGet Blog)

• Improved Package Restore (.NET Framework Blog)

• Portable Compression is now stable (.NET Framework Blog)

• Introducing Extensions for Windows Azure Media Services .NET SDK (Mingfei Yan)

• Localizing Custom Mapping Data with Bing Translator (Bing Dev Center Team Blog)

Visual Studio, Blend, & TFS

• C++ IDE Improvements in Visual Studio 2013 (Visual C++ Team Blog)