Windows App Developer Links - 2013-11-21

posted on 20 Nov 2013 | App Developer Links

Windows

Business customers are choosing Windows 8.1 for mobility solutions (Windows for your Business)
Run more apps and show more tiles on your Surface 2 or high-dpi Windows 8.1 Laptop (Scott Hanselman)

Windows Store App Development

Windows 8.1: How to use Visual States in your XAML App (Jerry Nixon)
How to check if a file exists in a Windows 8.1 Store apps - no more exception handling (Marco Minerva)
window.onerror and WinJS.Application.onerror (Kraig Brockschmidt)
AdDuplex SDK for Windows 8.1 WinJS Edition Released (AdDuplex Blog)

Windows Phone App Development

In Your Own Words: Try-and-buy yields repeated success for veteran game studio, 10tons (Windows Phone Developer Blog)
Now that's creative power: 1000+ Unity apps across Windows Store and Windows Phone (Windows Phone Developer Blog)
Windows Phone: Passing Data between Pages with Application.Resources (Mikael Koskinen)
Sharing a resource with a TextBox.CaretBrush can cause some weird behaviour (Matt Lacey)

.NET Development

RyuJIT .NET JIT compiler CTP1 FAQ (.NET Blog)

Visual Studio, Blend, & TFS

Announcing the Visual C++ Compiler November 2013 CTP (Visual C++ Team Blog)