Windows App Developer Links - 2014-01-07

Windows Store App Development

• Developing apps that use image scanners in Windows 8.1 (Windows App Builder Blog)

• Windows 8.1: Alarm and Lock screen call toasts (Silverlight Show)

• Windows Store and Windows Phone App-to-App communication over Bluetooth (Fred Le Coquil)

• Part 4: Enabling synchronization and filters within a Windows 8.1 app, SQLite and the Sync Toolkit (Sebastien Pertus)

• Choosing a specific master page for each Windows Store App page (Loek vanden Ouweland)

• VisualStates and the missing Snapped mode made easy in Windows Store Apps (Iris Classon)

• Change in sequence for body.onload event for Windows 8.1 (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Using WS-Federation with Windows Store and .NET rich clients (Sailing Rock)

• Weathr, a 3D weather app: code sample in C++, DirectX, and XAML (Jim Galasyn)

• Building a cross platform solution for WP and Windows 8. Part IV: Mocking out the differences (Gitte Vermeiren)

Windows Phone App Development

• How to enable "Fast App Resume" in your WP8 app? (Kunal Chowdhury)

• Sharing Links To Pocket [formerly Read It Later] (Scott Lovegrove)

• Creating simple page transitions using Storyboards: Slide transition (Shawn Kendrot)

Other

• Webinar Recording: Native App Development for iOS, Android, and Windows in Visual Studio (Xamarin Blog)

• Food Icons: Free Icon Set (Six Revisions)