Windows App Developer Links - 2013-08-27

Windows

• Microsoft Surface RT with black Touch Cover bundle sees $50 price drop (WinBeta)

Windows Store App Development

• Creating a unique ListView layout using cell-spanning (Windows App Builder Blog)

• Showing Progress, Changing State (Christian Nagel)

• Reading PDF files in Windows 8.1 Store Apps (Sumit Maitra)

Windows Phone App Development

• Push Notifications made easy: Using Windows Azure Notification Hubs with Windows Phone (Andy Wigley)

• Don't forget the system tray in your WP8 app (Nico Vermeir)

• Lessons Learnt Using the Windows Phone Camera API (James Mundy)

• Highlight a selected item in the LongListSelector on WP8 (Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework)

.NET Development

• Customising the Appearance of Debug Information in Visual Studio with the DebuggerDisplay Attribute (Jason Roberts)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• StorageHelper NuGet package (Rajen Kishna)

• ReviewNotifier NuGet package (Rajen Kishna)

Other

• 5 Ways To Give Yourself A Break (Jason Roberts)