Windows App Developer Links - 2013-11-13

Windows Phone

• Official Vine app for Windows Phone 8 is now available (Windows Phone Blog)

• IDC: Windows Phone has seen an amazing 156% year over year growth (WinBeta)

Windows Store App Development

• Windows 8 XAML Tips - Popup.ShowAsync() (Fons Sonnemans)

• Detect When Running on Windows Simulator (Peter Foot)

Windows Phone App Development

• Opening Settings Screen using Launch URI in Windows Phone (Abhishek Sur)

• Awesome with Windows Phone: Why MP3s may not play on Windows Phone (Matt Lacey)

• How to debug most common memory leaks on WP8 (Martin Suchan)

• Windows Phone Tips and Tricks - How to Implement Gestures: Movember Me (Christian Hissibini)

.NET Development

• DPI Aware Managed Applications on Windows 8.1 (Premier Field Engineering Developer Blog)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• From the MVPs: "New in Visual Studio 2013 - Windows Azure Mobile Services Integration" (Microsoft Press)

• Complex Polygons in Bing Maps (Bing Dev Center Team Blog)

Free Training Materials & Events

• Microsoft Virtual Academy - C++: A General Purpose Language and Library (Visual C++ Team Blog)