Windows App Developer Links - 2014-01-30

Windows Store App Development

• Understanding and resolving failures in Windows Store apps (Windows App Builder Blog)

• Simulating click event on ApplicationBarIconButton (Toni Petrina)

• Choosing the right serialization engine for your Windows Store app (Diederik Krols)

• Announcing Spinkit.Xaml (Nigel Sampson)

• Working with jQuery in WinJS (Wriju Ghosh)

Windows Phone App Development

• Disabling screenshot functionality in a Windows Phone app (Pedro Lamas)

• Non-Blocking Initialization Code to run at Startup on Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)

• How not to highlight alternate items in a virtualised list (Matt Lacey)

• A MVVM Visual State solution for your Windows Phone app (Johan Silfversparre)

• Optical Reader Library for Windows Phone 8 (Nokia Developer Wiki)

.NET Development

• Diagnosing issues with reversible data transformations (Jon Skeet)

• Threading in C#: 7 Things you should always remember about (Goyello Blog)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• VS 2013.1 (Update 1) is available (Brian Harry)

• The right way to restore NuGet packages (David Ebbo)

• NuGet Package Manager Console tip (Stuart Leeks)

• Image workflow using Web Essentials 2013 (Mads Kristensen)

Free Training Materials & Events

• Designing Great Apps for Both Windows and Windows Phone (Startup Citizen)

Other

• 5 Tips for getting your apps reviewed by Review Sites (Super Dev Resources)