Windows App Developer Links - 2014-08-22

Windows App Development

• Ensuring compatibility of desktop applications with WIMBoot systems (Building Apps for Windows)

• Windows Phone 8: Platform Overview (Sani Yusuf)

• Privacy link added automatically to settings (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• WindowsPhone 8.1 Optical Character Recognition(OCR) Library :Read Text from Images (C#-XAML) (Subramanyam Raju)

• [Windows Phone] Sharing images on Windows Phone 8.1 (WinRT) apps (Thomas Lebrun)

.NET & Cross Platform

• Survey on Xamarin usage with .NET or VC++ (Visual Studio Blog)

Tools & Services

• A New Package Statistics Warehouse (Nuget Blog)

• Calling All Hobbyists (Syncfusion Blog)