Windows App Developer Links - 2014-11-14

posted on 13 Nov 2014 | App Developer Links

Microsoft & Windows

New build available to the Windows Insider Program (Blogging Windows)

Windows App Development

Up to $100 million available to purchase Windows apps, prepare your apps now to take advantage of the it (Building Apps for Windows)
Gather feedback on the fly with Straw app (DVLUP)
Ideas and images come together with Collaborate app for Windows Phone (DVLUP)
Build Network-Aware Windows Phone Apps with Azure Mobile Services and Background Tasks (Visual Studio Magazine)
C++ Tools Acquisition for Windows Phone and Store Development (Visual C++ Team)
Returning Task from a Windows Runtime Component (Joost van Schaik)
Executing and testing geofencing background tasks in Universal Apps (Joost van Schaik)
Making an App Studio app better (Matt Lacey)
How to add a Twitter feed to your App Studio app (Matt Lacey)
Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Drawing with Win2D (Mike Taulty)

Visual Studio & .NET

Open Source .NET - why should you care? (Filip Woj)
Optimizing memory footprint: Compression in .Net 4.5 (Sharad Cornejo)

Tools & Services

Announcing TypeScript 1.3 (TypeScript)
NuGet 3.0 Preview (Nuget Blog)

Software Architecture, SDLC, & Testing

Avoid async void methods (Phil Haack)