Windows App Developer Links - 2013-10-30

Windows Store App Development

• Windows 8.1: Location-aware apps - Part #2: Working in background (Andrea Boschin)

• Customizing SearchBox appearance in Windows 8.1 Store apps (Marco Minerva)

• Figure out deprecated WinRT 8.1 types and members with the DeprecatedApi tool (Christophe Nasarre)

• WinJS 2.0 / IE 11: The new and shiny MutationObserver object (Jonathan Antione)

• Windows 8 app development: secure user passwords by using Credential Locker (Andrei Marukovich)

Windows Phone App Development

• New pubCenter reports to help you optimize ad revenue (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Create a check for updates page for your app (Nokia Developer Wiki)

• Responding to the Windows Phone Toolkit ListPicker closing (Shawn Kendrot)

• Creating a Behavior to change text to any case (Shawn Kendrot)

• Keeping ads in the same location when the phone orientation changes to landscape (Shawn Kendrot)

• An MVVM friendly tap+send and Bluetooth connection helper for Windows Phone 8 (Joost van Schaik)

• Fixing the styling of the WPToolkit ToggleSwitch (Matt Lacey)

• Problems and fixes when registering a Windows Phone 8 device to deploy/debug applications (Iris Classon)

• VS Issue: Designer failing (Cliff Simpkins)