Windows App Developer Links - 2014-03-13

Windows

• Announcing the Windows 8.1 User Readiness Toolkit (Springboard Series Blog)

Windows Store App Development

• A Little Bit Of Help Making Your Metro Apps More Metro (CodeProject)

Windows Phone App Development

• Magma Mobile garners 2.5 million downloads in 3 months on Windows Phone (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• The future of Windows Phone (Syncfusion Blog)

• 325 Windows Phone apps you can launch from your own app (Matt Lacey)

• More on apps with custom Uri Schemes (Matt Lacey)

• Why MessageBox.Show() = Fail! (Matt Lacey)

• Applying default styles quickly to your Windows Phone 8 application in Visual Studio (Daily .Net Tips)

.NET, Cross Platform, & Misc Development

• DevRadio: (Part 2) A Developers Guide to Marketing Your App - Merchandising (Microsoft DevRadio)