Windows App Developer Links - 2013-11-14

Windows

• A brief tour of the updated Windows Store (Windows Experience Blog)

• Windows 8.1 on your big screen with Miracast (Windows Experience Blog)

Windows Store App Development

• XAML text improvements in Windows 8.1 (Windows App Builder Blog)

• Databinding with the Windows 8.1 Hub control (Nick Randolph)

• Build for both-Reflection bits & pieces for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 (Joost van Schaik)

• Windows Store Developer Solutions (Channel 9)

Windows Phone App Development

• Use the Nokia Imaging SDK to crop and resize any image to create a lockscreen for your phone (Shawn Kendrot)

• How to increase Memory usage for an App in Windows Phone (Abhishek Sur)

• Slides from my "Getting started with WP8 development" talk (Jeremy Alles)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Releasing Unity 4.3 (Unity Technologies Blog)

• Xaml Styler for Visual Studio 2013 (Nico Vermeir)

Visual Studio, Blend, & TFS

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 Released (Microsoft Download Center)