Windows App Developer Links - 2013-11-03

Welcome to today's surprise Sunday links post!

Hopefully this will make up for Friday's surprise nonexistent links post. I fell asleep Thursday night in a chocolatey sugar induced coma after taking my son out trick or treating on his first Halloween.

Windows Store App Development

• Aligning sensors with your app's orientation (Windows App Builder Blog)

• From the MVPs: "EventSource Improvements Include Better Diagnostics for Diagnostics" (Microsoft Press)

• Using AppBarButton in Windows 8.1 (Tim Heuer)

• Windows 8.1 Development Series 5 - Working with new Windows 8.1 Features (Ibrahim Kivanc)

• WinRT: StyleMVVM Demo 1 of 2 (Sacha Barber)

• Sync toolkit for WinRT 8.1 (Sebastien Pertus)

Windows Phone App Development

• Utilize location & mapping features to add value to Windows Phone 8 apps (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Loading Sample Contacts Data on Windows Phone 8 (WP8) Emulator (Shahid Aziz)

• Fixing Color Themes on Windows Phone (Jared Bienz)

.NET Development

• Xamarin, Microsoft and .NET Rocks! Hit the Road (Xamarin Blog)

• Introducing Octokit.net (GitHub)

Visual Studio, Blend, & TFS

• The Visual C++ Linker best practices: Developer Iteration (Visual C++ Team Blog)

• Visual Studio 2012 tools for Git RTM (Brian Harry)