Windows App Developer Links - 2014-10-08

Windows App Development

• Detecting orientation in Universal apps (Jayway Blog)

• End of sprint - added gradient brushes, more image effects, and richer bitmap APIs (Win2D Team)

• How to add an ad removal button (AdDuplex Blog)

Cross Platform & IoT

• Adventures in Apache Cordova: Migrating Here My Am! from Windows (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Visual Studio & .NET

• October 2014 Updates to .NET vNext, ASP.NET vNext & .NET Native in Visual Studio "14" CTP4 (.NET Framework Blog)

• Visual Studio "14" CTP 4 and TypeScript 1.1 CTP Released (Visual Studio Blog)

• C++ Debugging Improvements in Visual Studio "14" (Visual C++ Team)

• New Breakpoint Configuration Experience in Visual Studio "14" (Microsoft ALM)

Tools & Services

• Announcing TypeScript 1.1 CTP (TypeScript)

App Design & Assets

• The Skeptic's Guide To Low-Fidelity Prototyping (Smashing Magazine)

Other

• Automating the tedious parts of open source on Azure (Scott Hanselman)