Windows App Developer Links - 2014-01-17

Windows Store App Development

• Image Manipulation in Windows Store Apps (MS Premier Field Engineering)

• Supporting background audio in your Windows 8.1 app (John Kennedy)

• More Store Certification Tips (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• How to access data from SQL Server database in Windows Store app (Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework)

• Accessibility Gotchas 1: Xaml ListView speaks in tongues (Windows Store Developer Solutions)

• Microsoft DevRadio: Developing for Windows 8 in 1/2 the Time - Getting Started with Blend (Microsoft DevRadio)

• Microsoft DevRadio: Community Corner - David Mock creator of "North Pole Invasion" for Windows 8 (Microsoft DevRadio)

• XPG Toolkit - Notification Library 1.0.5114.0 released (Andrea Boschin)

Windows Phone App Development

• New emulators available for Windows Phone 8.0 Updates 2 and 3 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• AdDuplex Windows Phone Statistics Report for December 2013 (AdDuplex Blog)

• Windows and Windows Phone app convergence (Nick Randolph)

• Advise the user when something bad may happen but don't necessarily prevent it (Matt Lacey)

• Marker based AR with Monogame and WP8 (Nico Vermeir)

• [Windows (Phone) 8] How to submit a form and retrieve results in your application? (Thomas Lebrun)

• Say hello to WP Dev Fusion! (Matteo Pagani)

Apps to Look At

• Weathr, a 3D Weather App now on CodePlex (Visual C++ Team)