Daily Links 24 Oct 2012

Windows 8 Notifications: Push Notifications

3 Icon Packs for Windows Phone and Windows 8

How to: Localize an Application Title for Windows Phone

The Windows Store App Lifecycle

Windows Store logos and usage specifications

Windows Store–Publishing, Images, Screenshots, etc
Updated Windows Phone Store Badge Now Available

Win8 Developers: Don’t Make the Terrible Mistake of Treating the Windows Store like the iOS App Store

WINRT: HOW TO PROPERLY IMPLEMENT ISUPPORTINCREMENTALLOADING WITH NAVIGATION

Your app needs a privacy policy in the Windows Store

Testing in-app puchasing in Windows 8

Windows 8 submission trials and tribulations

Executing NUnit Tests using the Visual Studio 2012 Test Runner

A Tic-Tac-Toe Game Engine

protobuf-net
Fast, portable, binary serialization for .NET

Daily Links 17 Oct 2012

Tips for using ads in your Windows Phone apps

Building an App for Both Windows Phone and iOS

[Windows 8] Using SQLite in your Windows Store application

File Manipulation in Windows 8 Store Apps

What Windows 8 Developers Need to Know about App Certification and Publishing

Clearer – A Gesture-Driven Windows 8 To-Do Application

Windows 8 Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 6

Get your TFS 2012 task board demo ready in under 1 minute

TFS 2012 Agile Planning Tools Issue – nested tasks makes the parent task disappear

10 Tips to avoid the typical Windows 8 design traps

Windows Store app Development Snack: Simulator tips & trick

Converting TimeZones in Store/WinRT apps

localizing the displayname of your app in windows 8

Daily Links 10 Oct 2012

WinRT app guide: Step 10: Adding a lightweight database (SQLite) and CRUD support + two-way element binding

Windows Store – Developer Registration Tips

Windows Store app development: Include that privacy policy

Basic Facebook integration for your Windows Phone 7 application

Windows Store Applications–Debugging Crashes

8 tips for your Windows Store apps

How to Self-Host ASP.Net Web API: Part 3 of Many

Helper class for creating TileNotification (win8)

Windows Phone Special Effects

Multilingual App Toolkit for developing Windows Store apps using Visual Studio 2012

W8WIL #6: Leverage the Maps app for location-based features

Porting Windows Phone App to Windows 8

Input Validation in Windows 8 Store apps

Walkthrough: the Windows 8 Settings and About Dialogs

Windows Phone StandardTileData.BackContent

… just a quick heads up if you get an error that looks something like this when creating a pinned tile for windows phone:
”The serialized property BackContent is too long
at Microsoft.Phone.Shell.ShellTileData.SerializeToToken(IToken token)
at Microsoft.Phone.Shell.ShellTile.Create(Uri navigationUri, ShellTileData initialData)”

The issue is that the BackContent property is set to a string with more than 500 characters.

New Windows Phone App–Kwik List

SPECIAL RELEASE PRICE: FREE!!! (No Ads either!)
- please consider posting a review for Kwik List on the marketplace in return.

Kwik List: The simplest, easiest and quickest way to remember things on your windows phone.
Kwik List allows you to make tasks and notes, tag them as lists and share them in a simple easy way on your windows phone.

Features:
- Maintain List Items
- Tag List Items
- Set Reminders 
- Save Items as tasks or notes
- View Calendar Entries
- Email contacts from calendar entries
- Email or Text tag list or individual items
- Pin item or tag list to the phone menu
- Live Tile Updates
- Filter list items you want to see
- Add multiple items at once via KwikList
- Dark and Light Theme support
- Create custom theme colors

Wibcisoft Kwik List

   

   

 

Daily Links 1 Oct 2012

Windows 8 App Bars

Get Your Windows Phone Applications in the Marketplace Faster

Weak Event implementation that works for any event type

Microsoft Research Face SDK Beta
" integrates the latest face technologies from Microsoft research teams. It provides state-of-the-art algorithms to process face images, like face detection, alignment, tracking, and cartoon generation"

Host Silverlight app in dropbox

Creating a settings flyout

Player Framework: an open source component of the Microsoft Media Platform

WCF 4.5 features: Simplified Generated Configuration Files

Windows 8–Connecting to SkyDrive

Why SOLID Matters

Five Things to Know When Designing a Windows 8 App

Getting Started Building Windows 8 Store Apps with XAML/C#

Windows 8 Toolkit - Charts and More