Windows App Developer Links - 2014-08-28

Microsoft & Windows

• Spotify now free on Windows Phone (Blogging Windows)

Windows App Development

• Creating a simple push service for home automation alerts (Morten Nielsen)

• Getting and Setting the SeletedIndex (visible section) of the Hub, now with Binding! (Shawn Kendrot)

• Pre-Release tasks when developing Apps (Steve Miller)

• Microsoft's Dev Center Benefits program for app developers offers all sorts of goodies and tools (WinBeta)

Cross Platform Development

• Poollie: WK 2014 - Lessons Learned From Developing a Successful Multi-Platform App With Xamarin (VincentH)

• QuickCross: Quickly create cross-platform MVVM apps in C# for iOS, Android, Windows Store & Windows Phone (Macaw NL)

Tools, Services, Libraries, & Frameworks

• Download the updated Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0 public preview (Building Apps for Windows)

• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Hello (BodyIndex, Infra Red) World for the .NET WPF Developer (Mike Taulty)

Learning Materials & Events

• Microsoft AzureConf.net 2014 (Microsoft Azure)