Windows App Developer Links - 2013-09-27

posted on 26 Sep 2013 | App Developer Links

Windows Store App Development

Developers, There Are UI Updates for You in Windows 8.1 (Erez Harari)
Special syntax for data-win-options strings with WinJS controls (Kraig Brockschmidt)
From a "Class Library" to a "WinRT Component": Deal with inheritance (Andrea Boschin)

Windows Phone App Development

How to get started easily leveraging web services in your Windows Phone applications (Windows Phone Developer Blog)
How To Manage API Keys in a Windows Phone App (Den D.)
Microsoft DevRadio: Best Practices for Windows Phone Proximity API (Channel 9)
Fixing Windows Phone Error 3100 An error has occurred (Mikael Koskinen)

.NET Development

Immutable collections ready for prime time (.NET Framework Blog)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

Unirest-RT - Simplified, lightweight HTTP library for Windows 8 RT (Michael Sync)
New SDK Beta versions for Windows Store Apps (AdDuplex Blog)

Visual Studio, Blend, & TFS

VisualStudio 2013 Improvements - better commenting in XAML (Kunal Chowdhury)

Other

How I Built A Windows 8 Powered Mini-Arcade Machine (Jesse Freeman)