Windows App Developer Links - 2014-10-23

posted on 23 Oct 2014 | App Developer Links

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)