Windows App Developer Links - 2014-04-09

posted on 09 Apr 2014 | App Developer Links

Windows App Development

Brokered Windows Runtime Components for side-loaded Windows Store apps (Windows Dev Center)
First Look at Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 Universal Apps with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC (Josh Morales)
Caliburn.Micro and Universal Apps (Nigel Sampson)
Universal Apps Q and A from BUILD 2014 Day 1 (Iris Classon)
Windows Phone 8.1: a lap around the new development features (Matteo Pagani)
Comparing Windows Phone APIs (First Floor Software)
Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers - Choose your weapons (Jayway Blog)
Transitioning your app from the Panorama control to the Hub control (Shawn Kendrot)
Windows Phone 8 Maps API: Custom PushPin With Custom ToolTip On MapView Control(C# - XAML) (Subramanyam Raju)
Tapping into your phone's sensors: Nokia SensorCore - Nokia Conversations (Nokia Conversations)
Geo-fencing with Bing Spatial Data Services and Azure Mobile Services (Bing Dev Center Team)

.NET, Cross Platform, & Misc Development

Async/Await - Best Practices in Asynchronous Programming (MSDN Magazine)