Windows App Developer Links - 2014-02-11

Windows

• Hands on with Windows 8.1 Update 1, new features and more (video) (WinBeta)

Windows Store App Development

• Implementing a SettingsFlyout (settings pane) in Windows Store Apps 8.1 (Iris Classon)

• The Windows 8.1 Hub Control (DotNetCurry)

• Adding a custom MessageHeader and HTTP header to a WCF method call in a Windows Store app or WP app (Windows Store Developer Solutions)

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

• Portable Class Library (PCL) Timer when Targeting Both Windows 8 and WP using Reactive Extensions (Jason Roberts)

Windows Phone App Development

• How much is a good app store review worth? (Rob Irving)

.NET, Cross Platform, & Misc Development

• The role of Behaviors and UserControls in the MVVM paradigm (Andrea Boschin)

• Rx and Getting Paged Data from the MovieDb API (Mike Taulty)

Other

• An app developers guide to patent demand letters (Matt Lacey)