Windows App Developer Links - 2013-10-17

Windows

• SkyDrive and Windows 8.1 (Blogging Windows)

• Engineering Xbox Music for Windows 8.1 (Blogging Windows)

• Right from the Start: Apps for Creative Expression (Windows Experience Blog)

Windows Store App Development

• Handling VisualState in Windows 8.1 Store apps (Marco Minerva)

• Clustering Pushpins in Windows Store Apps (Bing Dev Center Team Blog)

• Walkthrough: Is your Windows 8 app too square and boxy? Here are some options. (Jerry Nixon)

• How to Add Tapped Event to the Textbox in Windows 8 Application (Pavan Pareta)

• More on populating a ListBox using databinding (John Kennedy)

Windows Phone App Development

• What's new in Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Update 3 (MSDN)

• Preview Program for Developers & GDR3 (Matteo Pagani)

• Developers: Add custom sounds to your toast notifications with Update 3 (Windows Phone Central)

• Microsoft DevRadio: Location API Best Practices for Your Windows Phone Apps (Channel 9)

• WP8 App/Page Base Navigation Classes (Jay Kimble)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Improving the state of the art in API documentation sites (Daniel Cazzulino)