Windows App Developer Links - 2014-10-27

posted on 26 Oct 2014 | App Developer Links

Windows App Development

Updates to the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store policies (Building Apps for Windows)
Apache Cordova and WinJS (Building Apps for Windows)
The Power of Speech in Your Windows Phone 8.1 Apps (Lori Lalonde)
Working with Windows Phone Emulator (BD Devs)
Windows Phone 8.1 - Map Control (BD Devs)
Display map content in Windows Phone 8.1 (Jayway Blog)
Comparing WP7 stats: AdDuplex and Microsoft (Matt Lacey)
Making the Application Bar display on of top of the UI in Windows Phone 8.1 Store Apps (Joost van Schaik)
WindowsPhone: How to programmatically set TextBlock Foreground color with Hex Values (Subramanyam Raju)
How do I disable Windows 8 touch contact visualizations for my application? (Raymond Chen)

Visual Studio & .NET

Essential Truths Everyone Should Know about Performance in a Large Managed Codebase (Dustin Campbell)
Awaiting for that Button click (Slobodan Pavkov)

Tools & Services

Package Manifests (Nuget Blog)

Libraries, Frameworks, & Controls

Spectrum (Nigel Sampson)

UX, UI, & Application Design

Design Accessibly, See Differently: Color Contrast Tips And Tools (Smashing Magazine)

Other

Creating Micro Screencasts, Hosted For Free (Telerik Developer Network)