Windows App Developer Links - 2014-11-24

Windows App Development

• Inside Windows Platform - Inside Microsoft OCR Libraries (Building Apps for Windows)

• Dev Center Benefits rolls out new features (DVLUP)

• WindowsPhone: Write Text on Image (Subramanyam Raju)

• How to Install Cocos2d-x to Build Windows Store Apps (MS Open Tech)

• Goodbye BooleanToVisibilityConverter, welcome IsVisible! (Toni Petrina)

• Expired certificate error with Cordova building for Windows (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Visual Studio & .NET

• New Features in C# 6 (Microsoft C# Team)

• One Week of Open Source (.NET Framework Blog)

• Digging Into .NET Loop Performance, Bounds-checking, Iteration, and Unrolling (Ben Watson)

• Native Memory Diagnostics in VS2015 Preview (Visual C++ Team)

Tools, Libraries, Frameworks, & Controls

• Now available: xUnit for Windows Phone 8 Silverlight (Oren Novotny)

• Windows 8 Platform starter kit has gone down (Simon Jackson)