Windows App Developer Links - 2013-10-23

Windows

• Right from the Start: Delivering the Windows 8.1 Apps and Services (Windows Experience Blog)

• Windows 8.1 General Availability: The IT Pro Perspective (Springboard Series Blog)

• Windows 8.1: What enterprise users need to know (Mary Jo Foley)

Windows Store App Development

• Know Your 8.1 - Windows 8.1 that is (Jonathan Rozenblit)

• Async Void, Exceptions and Windows 8.1 (Nigel Sampson)

• Make a Windows 8.1 Pinned Live Tile for YOUR website in minutes (Scott Hanselman)

• Dealing with Documents: How (not) to use the documentsLibrary capability in Windows Store apps (Rob Caplan)

• Slides and Workbooks for 10/19 Game Dev Workshop (G. Andrew Duthie)

• First Prism for Windows 8.1 drop available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)

Windows Phone App Development

• Handling Contract assertions on Windows Phone 8 (Andy Pennell)

• CollectionViewSource is crazy useful for binding to filtered Observable Collections on WP8 (Scott Hanselman)

• How to use the new PowerSavingModeEnabled property via reflection in Windows Phone 8 Update 3 (Marco Minerva)

Visual Studio, Blend, & TFS

• Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1 SDK RTM are now available (Chuck Walbourn)

• SCREENCASTS: What's New in Visual Studio 2013 - learn over lunch! (Scott Hanselman)

• Git network operations in Visual Studio 2013 (Philip Kelley)