Windows App Developer Links - 2013-08-30

Windows

• Foursquare for Windows 8 now available in the Windows Store (Windows Experience Blog)

Windows Store App Development

• What is new in Windows 8.1 for file access: SkyDrive integration (Andrei Marukovich)

• Designing a Windows 8.1 app - Step 2: Grow your idea (Christine Matheney)

• Windows 8.1, Visual Studio 2013 Preview - Grid Template on PRISM (Mike Taulty)

• Protocol Activation: What Is It, What Apps Offer It, and How Can I use It in My Apps? (G. Andrew Duthie)

• The Ultimate Checklist to Promote Your App (MSDN Belux Team Blog)

• 5 things you must do BEFORE you publish your app (Jerry Nixon)

• This is the most important control you may ever use (Jerry Nixon)

• Introduction to Mobile Advertising (Iain Hunter)

• Unity: Free Add on for Windows 8 | Start Learning Presentation/Tutorials | Over $100,000 Contest (Dr. Doris Chen)

Windows Phone App Development

• New [permanent] reduced price to become a Windows Phone developer (Matteo Pagani)

• Configuring a Free version of your WP8 App! (Robert Irving)

• How to get Exception.StackTrace line numbers on Windows Phone (Lucian Wischik)

• Yet Another Scrollable TextBlock for Windows Phone (Denis Stankovski)

.NET Development

• Three Part Conditional Numeric Format Strings for Positive, Negative, and Zero Numbers (Jason Roberts)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Windows Phone Theme Manager 1.5 (NuGet Gallery)

• Mozilla Firefox CSS Parser Ported to C# (CodeProject)