Windows App Developer Links - 2014-01-03

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Windows

• Microsoft account activity history feature is now online! (Laurentiu Cristofor)

• Swipe-Down-to-Kill Changes in Windows 8.1 Store apps (Windows Store Developer Solutions)

Windows Store App Development

• Specs for built-in animations (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Moving data around your C# app, and the potential perils of async (John Kennedy)

• SQLiteWinRT: Opening databases shipped as app content or from an SD Card (Andy Wigley)

• Building a cross platform solution for WP and Windows 8. Part I: Quick sharing of code (Gitte Vermeiren)

• Building a cross platform solution for WP and Windows 8. Part II: The class library approach (Gitte Vermeiren)

• Building a cross platform solution for WP and Windows 8. Part III: We need a pattern (Gitte Vermeiren)

Windows Phone App Development

• Inside Windows Phone 70: Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Orientation Support For windows Phone 8 (Shahid Aziz)

• Why Windows Phone apps deserve a custom uri scheme and how to add a simple launch uri (Marco Siccardi)

• Useful Apps for Windows Phone Developers (Lori Lalonde)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• MonoGame NuGet packages updated 10th December (Simon Jackson)

• New Reactive Extension Support for JavaScript Developers in RxJS 2.2 (Interoperability @ Microsoft)