Windows App Developer Links - 2014-05-07

posted on 07 May 2014 | App Developer Links

Windows App Development

The 5 most common questions I heard in April (Building Apps for Windows)
Windows Phone 8.1: A Giant Leap Forward for Convergence (Visual Studio Magazine)
Using MVVM Light in Universal Windows apps (Marco Minerva)
Ingredients in a good hamburger app layout (David Washington)
Windows Phone Store 8.1 vs Windows Phone 8: TextBox has Header and PlaceholderText Properties (Subramanyam Raju)
Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers - Introducing Bluetooth LE (Peter Bryntesson)
Building Text To Speech Applications using Windows Phone 8.1 and Cortana Overview (DotNetCurry)
How to render html to Image in WP8 (Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework)
Inside Windows Phone 74: Thomas Fennel on the Windows Notification Platform (Building Apps for Windows)
(Video) Installing and running the Windows Phone emulator in a Virtual Machine (Iris Classon)
Creating a WebSite for Polling Live Tiles (Windows Store Developer Solutions)

.NET, Cross Platform, & Misc Development

The Bait and Switch PCL Trick (Paul Betts)
Refit: The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET (Paul Betts)

Other

Announcing the new Microsoft Press Store and special discount (Microsoft Press)