Daily Links 29 Jan 2013

App submission tips for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8

Creating Spinning progress Animation in Windows Phone

How to use the Light Sensor in Windows 8 C#/XAML applications

Windows Phone 8: Contacts Integration

Windows Phone 8 and 7.x Design Guidelines

Lex.Db
Platform independent data store solution

Start Button 8
Free start button software for win 8

Now Available: Windows Phone SDK Update for 7.8

Mangopollo
"easily take advantage of new windows phone tiles (cyclic, flip, iconic) if your application is run from a Windows Phone 7.8 or 8 as well as new launchers if your application is run from a Windows Phone 8 while remaining compatible with windows phone 7."

Getting more visibility for your Windows Store app Part 1: Create great apps

Windows Phone 8 SDK on a Virtual Machine with Working Emulator

Using async/await with WebClient in Windows Phone 8 (or: TaskCompletionSource saves the day)

Send Email with attachments without using EmailComposeTask with MailMessage

Handling Resuming in your Windows 8 Applications

Tips and tricks when using voice recognition in a Windows Phone 8 app

Building High Performance Windows Phone Apps

Handling unhandled exceptions with async/await on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8