Windows App Developer Links - 2014-10-23

Windows App Development

• Microsoft Build Developer Conference | April 29 - May 1, 2015 (Microsoft)

• Windows App Studio adds handy new features (DVLUP)

• Templates for Windows Store apps using ANGLE (MS Open Tech)

• Win2D, what it is and why I am excited about it (Bill Reiss)

• Windows Phone - Extended Splash Screen with Progress Bar (BD Devs)

• Microsoft's Windows App Studio Beta: Submit Menu App in the Store (Sara Silva)

• Accessing and posting on Facebook feed (MS Premier Field Engineering)

• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Hello 'Custom Gesture' World (Mike Taulty)

• Showing the device camera in Unity (Falafel Software)

• Game development with SharpDX Toolkit: Content loading and drawing a sprite (Rodrigo Díaz)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Producing combinations, part three (Eric Lippert)

Tools & Services

• Ai-XAML Plug-In Updated for Illustrator CC (Mike Swanson)

Software Architecture, SDLC, & Testing

• Chess TDD 19: DoesPieceExistAt and Housekeeping (Erik Dietrich)

UX, UI, & Application Design

• Mobile Design that Scales: Building for Existing and Future Devices (Telerik Developer Network)

• Improving Your Information Architecture With Card Sorting: A Beginner's Guide (Smashing Magazine)

Other

• Be A Better Designer [or Developer] By Eating An Elephant (Smashing Magazine)