Windows App Developer Links - 2014-02-07

Windows Phone

• Forget the Service Center, Nokia releases Software Recovery Tool for Lumia devices (WinBeta)

Windows Store App Development

• Windows 8.1: Easily send your notifications to tiles, toasts and badges (Silverlight Show)

• Aligning Characters and Spacing in Windows 8.1 (Nick Randolph)

• A Behavior to close Flyouts via MVVM in Windows 8.1 Store apps (Marco Minerva)

• Combining WinJS, TypeScript, jQuery and KnockOut (Timmy Kokke)

• SQLite performance tuning in a Windows 8 Store app (Diederik Krols)

• Tools to help non coders build apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone (Susan Ibach)

• Subtle trap in DeviceInformation.findAllAsync for JavaScript devs (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• App Crashes on Launch as Beta (Works Side-loaded) (Peter Foot)

• Microsoft DevRadio: An Interview with Mike Christatos and Andy Wallace, Creators of "WormRun" for Windows 8 (Microsoft DevRadio)

Windows Phone App Development

• Official Ally Bank app for Windows Phone 8 makes its debut, looks gorgeous (WinBeta)

• Building Charming Apps for Windows and Windows Phone (Nick Randolph)

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• XAML Spy February 2014 Update (XAML Spy)

• New open source Portable Class Library for SQLite (MS Open Tech)

• Branching XAML Styler (Nico Vermeir)

• 5 Weather Forecast API for developing apps (Super Dev Resources)

• PSA: Caliburn Micro is on GitHub (Nigel Sampson)

Other

• Introducing Microsoft's new CEO: Satya Nadella (Microsoft Blog)