Windows App Developer Links - 2013-10-15

posted on 14 Oct 2013 | App Developer Links

Windows

Skype for Windows 8.1, engineered since the acquisition (Blogging Windows)

Windows Store App Development

An Image Cropper control for Windows 8 Store apps (Diederik Krols)
Using Windows 8 WinRT APIs in .NET Desktop Applications (Andrei Marukovich)

Windows Phone App Development

Announcing our third Windows Phone 8 update—plus a new developer preview program (Windows Phone Blog)
Introducing Windows Phone Preview for Developers (Windows Phone Developer Blog)
Suffering from the spinning cogs issue on a Nokia Windows Phone? There's a fix for that (Windows Phone Central)
Making web requests with long timeouts on Windows Phone (Matt Lacey)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

A lighter, brighter GitHub for Windows (GitHub)
XAML Spy for Visual Studio Update 2 beta (XAML Spy)
SideWaffle: How to create your own VS template pack (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
Serilog hits 1.0 (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Visual Studio, Blend, & TFS

Data Breakpoints (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)