Windows App Developer Links - 2014-01-27

Windows Store App Development

• Windows Dev Center: Create a flexible app UI in Windows 8.1 (Microsoft Press)

• Debugging a Windows 8.1 Store App Crash Dump (NT Debugging)

• Windows 8.1: The Windows Search API (Silverlight Show)

• Using actual size in your Windows 8.1 app (David Washington)

• 5 steps to publish a "Project Siena" app to the Windows Store (David Washington)

• Data type for HTML canvas ImageData (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Windows 8 - background Processing (CodeProject)

• Using the EventArgsConverter in MVVM Light, & why is there no EventToCommand in the Windows 8.1 version? (Laurent Bugnion)

• How to develop Windows 8.1 Apps with Windows Azure Mobile Services (Nick Harris)

Windows Phone App Development

• Top Windows Phone app certification failures and how to avoid them (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Compiling and using SQLite Encryption Extension(SEE) with Windows Phone 8 (Nokia Developer Wiki)

• LLS SelectedItem binding through a behavior (Nico Vermeir)

• Visual States in Windows Phone and Windows Applications using MvvmCross (Nick Randolph)

• A Simple Approach to Remove QueryStrings from NavigationContext on Windows Phone (DZone)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Invitation code for trialing Application Insights (Microsoft ALM)

Free Training Materials & Events

• Virtual Academy & Channel9: Learn how you can take your Unity game and bring it to WP or Windows 8 (Lee Stott)

Other

• Best ways to monetize your app (Pluralsight Blog)

• How to identify code smells (Pluralsight Blog)