Windows App Developer Links - 2013-10-21

posted on 20 Oct 2013 | App Developer Links

Windows

Windows 8.1: One Vision, One Platform for everything you do at work (Windows for your Business)
Facebook for Windows 8.1 now available (Windows Experience Blog)

Windows Store App Development

Now ready for you: Windows 8.1 and the Windows Store (Windows App Builder Blog)
PLM and Background Tasks // Tiles and Notifications (Nathalie Goh-Livorness)
I had never created an app before, I now have 1 million downloads in the Windows Store! (Microsoft UK Students)

Windows Phone App Development

Great Windows Phone 8 Code Sample Hub (Andrew Coates)
Windows Phone 8 SDK on a Virtual Machine with Working Emulator (Nokia Developer Wiki)
WP8 Proximity Simplified (Jay Kimble)
Check if a Device has Windows Phone 8 Update 3 Installed (Ed Glogowski)

.NET Development

.NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM = start coding (.NET Blog)

Visual Studio, Blend, & TFS

Visual Studio 2013 available for download (S. Somasegar)
Visual Studio 2013 Available Now! (Visual C++ Team Blog)
Announcing Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013 RTM Availability (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)
Essential reading for Visual Studio 2013, MVC 5 and Web API 2 (Troy Hunt)