Windows App Developer Links - 2013-08-29

Windows

• Readying Windows 8.1 for release (Blogging Windows)

Windows Store App Development

• Get your apps ready for the Windows 8.1 launch! (Windows App Builder Blog)

• Microsoft confirms Windows 8.1 RTM; no early access to final bits (Mary Jo Foley)

• With no early Windows 8.1 RTM bits, what's a developer to do? (Mary Jo Foley)

• Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 - Grid Template Explorations (Mike Taulty)

• Packaging a Windows Store apps component with nuget - Part 1 (Sebastien Pertus)

• Reusing Vector Graphics in Windows 8 Store Apps (Diederik Krols)

• How to identify unique device for Windows 8 and Windows Phone app (Ranger Yu)

• Port from DirectX 9 to Windows Store (Windows Dev Center)

• Port from OpenGL ES 2.0 to Direct3D 11 (Windows Dev Center)

Windows Phone App Development

• App Studio: let's take a look at a generated project (Matteo Pagani)

Cross Platform App Development

• How to write both code and [unit] tests that can be shared across multiple platforms (Visual Studio Magazine)

.NET Development

• Download .NET Universe 2013 Poster (Microsoft Download Center)

Visual Studio, Blend, & TFS

• Visual Studio Unit Test Generator v1 "lands" (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• NuGet Package Restore with Team Foundation Build (.NET Blog)

• How is your experience developing graphics apps? (Visual C++ Team Blog)

• Visual Studio 2013: Working with Breakpoint Labels (Zain Naboulsi)