Windows App Developer Links - 2013-10-04

Windows

• Right from the Start: Delivering the best email experience on any tablet with Windows 8.1 (Windows Experience Blog)

Windows Store App Development

• Windows 8.1 - Building an Alarm App in Windows 8.1 (Tony Champion)

• Canceling an async operation in WinJS (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Windows 8.1 Development Series: 2 - Windows 8.1 Development / WireFraming & StoryBoarding (Ibrahim Kivanc)

• Using Windows 8 WinRT APIs in .NET Desktop Applications (Andrei Marukovich)

Windows Phone App Development

• Looking for student app developers. Imagine Cup 2014 is on! (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Windows Phone - Programming the Nokia Sketch Effect in Windows Phone 8 (Srikar Doddi)

• Load Isolated Storage's Image and display in WP8 (Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework)

• Why can't the Windows Phone Emulator go online? (Sagar B. Joshi)

Cross Platform App Development

• Sharing XAudio2 Code Between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Apps (Charles Petzold)

• Porting existing .NET apps to Android (Xamarin Blog)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• XAML Spy for Visual Studio [beta] (XAML Spy)

• Visual Studio Start Page: Through the ages (Visual Studio Blog)

Other

• Curbing long tail design (Jimmy Bogard)