Daily Links 21 Oct (Part 2)

HTML5 Techniques for Optimizing Mobile Performance

Introducing Windows Phone Preview for Developers

AngularJS vs Knockout - Modules and DI (6 of 8)

Debug why your Windows 8 Modern App isn't starting

What's new in Windows Phone SDK Update 3

WP8 App/Page Base Navigation Classes

Windows 8.1 design principles hand developers back their sanity

Windows Phone 8 - A simple helper class for working with SkyDrive files using SkyDrive API

Live SDK v5.5

Developing High Performance Websites and Modern Apps with JavaScript and HTML5

Real-Time Reporting with SignalR, Kendo UI DataViz, and Icenium Part 1

15 Useful HTML5 Tutorials and Cheat Sheets

WP GPS Simulator

GEOLOCATION WITH THE ESRI SILVERLIGHT API

Announcing the Release of Visual Studio 2013 and Great Improvements to ASP.NET and Entity Framework

Introducing Win8nl for Windows 8.1–kissing WinRtBehaviors goodbye

Daily Links 21 Oct 2013

Creating Real-Time System Notifications with SignalR

Caching in ASP.NET

Backup Isolated Storage To SkyDrive

WCF How to: Enable Streaming

Five Great .NET Framework 4.5 Features

Shared localization for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 apps using Portable Class

Microsoft building a single app store for the next Windows Phone and Windows releases
... about time

C# Intellisense for Notepad++

Mixed mode HTTP / HTTPS

BEHAVIORS SDK

Whitepaper: Deployment Automation for ASP.NET Apps and SQL Server Databases

Enabling Distributed Agile Teams

Maintainable Automated UI Tests

Shorter way of writing Grid row and column definitions

Introduction to Bluetooth support on Windows Phone 8

Daily Links 2 Sep 2013

Extension methods to animate scaling and opacity on Windows Phone

A behavior to animate folding in and out of GUI elements on Windows Phone

Windows Phone 8 Development: Maps and Clusters

WPF Matrix Rain Dashboard Gauge Control

Creating smarter apps with geofencing

EF6 Release Candidate Available

Implementing Two Factor Authentication in ASP.NET MVC with Google Authenticator

A behavior to animate mirroring of GUI elements on Windows Phone

Validation in Silverlight

100 Fresh & Free Seamless Patterns – Ideal for Web Design Work

22 Hexagon Photoshop Patterns (PAT)

Windows Phone Series – Jump Lists

5 ways to tackle an insufficient HTTPS implementation

ServiceStack
"Thoughtfully architected, obscenely fast, thoroughly enjoyable web services for all"

Daily Links 8 Jun 2013

Beginner's Android Development Tutorial

Create location aware apps using geolocation and Bing Maps

5 HTML5 Features you need to know

SQLite WinRT wrapper for Windows Phone

Windows (RT and Phone) and Sqlite (Part 1)

A new SQLite wrapper for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 – The basics

Microsoft's new 3D data visualization BI product - GeoFlow

Windows Phone 8 Serialization: Comparison

Single Sign On with OAuth in Windows Store Apps

Creating a smooth extended splash screen experience

Visual Studio 2013

SQL Server Backup Paths and File Management

My 2 cents on SQL Server 2014

Dealing with self-signed SSL certificates on Windows Phone

MonoGame: Building Portable Solutions

Hands-on: Xamarin Studio’s powerful new iOS designer

Daily Links 16 Jan 2013

WinRT’s default “save on suspend” isn’t good enough

How to detect that your app is running in Kid’s Corner

How to Become a Software Architect

Setting up your Windows Store payout account (South Africa)

Splash Screens in Windows Phone 8–Who moved my cheese?

silverPDF - Silverlight PDF library

Getting WP7 Device Info

From the MVPs: Different deployment options in Windows 8

Live Tiles in Windows Phone 8 Part2: Lock screen notifications

Windows Phone 8: Localization

Reversi XAML/C# Windows Store Sample Game

Windows Phone 8 Emulator Skin Switcher 1.0 released on codeplex

Windows 8 Design Templates is now ready for all the developers

Daily Links 21 Aug 2012

WP7 Localize
Utility to help localize your WP app

New samples galore from the Windows Phone SDK Team - 33 new samples, 4 pages, 2 languages, 1 boat load of code...

Getting paid from the Windows Store

Walkthrough on becoming a Windows Store developer if you are registering as a company

Using NUnit to test Windows Phone 7 applications – Part 1

Consuming WCF service with Windows 8

Windows 8 apps, what’s an Enterprise to do?

Continuous Location Tracking on Windows Phone 8

Windows 8 Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks!

Getting Started with the Coding4Fun toolkit ImageTile Control

Windows Phone 8 Battery API

Async await. Wait them All!

The Clean Architecture

Daily Links 01 Aug 2012

WP: Ultimate About Dialog

Roaming your app data

How to create cool custom tiles in a Windows Phone application

Porting a windows phone app to iOS with MonoTouch

Get up to speed on Windows 8 in 6 weeks

Windows 8 Metro: Something about application life-cycle

A WinRT behavior to mimic EventToCommand

HTML5 Report Viewer – Taking your Reports further!

SKYDRIVE BACKUP OF YOUR MOBILE APP–LET’S GET SOME COMMON GROUND

Apps must be cross platform

How to backup your Windows Phone app data to a server such as GoDaddy

Using Entity Framework to Create Databases on Windows Phone

Pro Live Tiles for Windows 8

Creating tiled backgrounds in Metro style XAML apps

Daily Links 12 Jun 2012

Microsoft Details Windows 8 Store Desktop App Submission Process

Downloads for Metro style app development

Building an Offline HTML5 Application

A Study Using The HTML5 Geolocation API

Comparison of RadControls for Windows Phone and the Windows Phone Toolkit.

Callisto: A toolkit for XAML Metro style apps

Metro XAML Nugget: App Bar AutoMagic

Everything You Need to Start Writing Windows 8 Metro Applications Today

Windows Phone SignalR Helper!

Windows 8 Metro: Asynchrony made easy

Windows 8: The Animated Pie Slice

WP: How to create a spinner control

Improving the Startup Time of Xaml Metro Style Apps with Multicore JIT

Daily Links 27 May 2012

Creating updatable Live Tiles from A to Z (part 1)

Using a Sterling-database in Windows Phone as alternative to SQL CE

Custom Controls in Windows Phone 7

Designing a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Design Case Study Part 

Windows Phone and Geo Augmented Reality Toolkit (GART)

Implementing augmented reality using GART

Selecting a Mobile Implementation Strategy

NCrunch is an automated parallel continuous testing tool for Visual Studio .NET.
free while it's in beta

.NET 4.5 Improvements for Cloud and Server Applications

Get started with Windows 8 Metro style app development using JavaScript and HTML5

Windows 8 C# – Capture Media

How to design a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Part 2

Sharp GPX
SharpGpx implements an object model for reading and writing GPX (GPS eXchange). An extremely common format, GPX is used to record data and exchange data from GPS units.

Daily Links 8 May 2012

Bing Maps with custom pushpin and popup interaction

Fast and fluid animations in your Metro style app

Develop HTML5 Windows Phone Apps with Apache Cordova

Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined

HTML5 offline web applications using ASP.NET MVC

Kata - the Only Way to Learn TDD

Windows Phone 7 sports application with Apache Cordova, jQuery Mobile Metro and ESPN API

Creating Windows Phone, iPhone and Android Apps with iFactr in Visual Studio 2010

Windows Phone development: Improving the startup time and responsiveness of your application

A XAML Guy digs into ASP.NET MVC4 (Part 2 of ?)

Daily Links 26 Mar 2012

How to stream video and audio from SkyDrive on Windows Phone

Building a deployable custom control for XAML Metro style apps

What's New in Visual Studio 11 Beta Unit Testing

Monetize your Metro style app with Microsoft AdCenter

Windows Phone MVVM

Windows Phone 7 Ad Rotator

Video Tutorial: Colorizing Images in Windows Phone using Expression Blend

How to Speed up the Visual Studio IDE

Weak Events in .Net, the easy way

skydrive upload c# metro

PhoneFlipMenu Control for Windows Phone

Windows Phone Icons Maker

An easy way to create awesome looking Windows Phone7 icons using expression Design

Metro & HTML5 Control Sample Packs

Daily Links 06 Feb 2012

Testing Windows Phone Apps

Using AdMob for Windows Phone 7

Phone Core Framework
 - Navigation engine which simplifies navigation between pages
 - Dependency injection container which helps you to create lously coupled application
 - Configuration subsystem which allows you to manage workflow without rebuilding of an application
 - Tracing engine which allows to do postmortem analysis or analyze workflow/performance
 - Bootstrapping engine with plugin architecture
 - Primitive types: Lazy, Tuple

jQuery UI vs Kendo UI

Enabling SSL for a WCF Service

Hazards of Converting Binary Data To A String

Memory Profiling for Application Performance

Event Handler Memory Leaks, Unwiring Events, and the WeakEventManager in WPF 4.5

Entity Framework vs. LightSpeed

Windows Phone Resources

Windows 8 touch interactions

Bing maps data bound pushpins fade-in animation

Daily Links 30 Jan 2012

Mango Sample: Delete Dramatically

Marketwatcher: WP7 Class Library and Sample Application for Fetching Application Reviews from the Marketplace

wp7 skydrive upload

MetroSky - A Complete SkyDrive Sample for Windows Phone


Developer tool for nicer marketplace screenshots

Beta-testing on Windows Phone - some curious facts

8 Must-Have Tools for Windows Phone 7 Development

Windows Phone Test Framework : an introduction

Please ship your next Windows Phone app with GZip: speed requests 50-80%

PROTECT YOUR Windows Phone APP AGAINST (casual) PIRACY

Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Cheat Sheet - Live Tiles

Live Tiles in WP Mango

5 Simple Steps to Commanding in Silverlight

PhoneThemeManager: allow your app to have the Light, Dark, or Inverted theme with 1 line of code

Daily Links 20 Jan 2012

Advanced ApplicationBar for Windows Phone

Kung Fu Windows Phone - User Feedback

Silverlight 5 Security: Designed for the Intranet

Seven Silverlight snippets you can not live without

Mango Sample: 5 Must-Have Animations

EvenTiles from Start to Finish–Part 12
Example of running Periodic Tasks

Windows Phone 7.5 - Using advanced tiles API

Windows Phone 7 Serialization: Comparison

Windows Phone 7 Serialization: Binary Serialization

EF 4.3 Beta 1 Released

Windows Phone 7 – Browsing your Photos via Bing Maps

A quick look at MetroRadio: quick spacing, margin, and icon tips for Windows Phone devs

Getting Started with Mobile Web Development Using HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4

WP: Building A Multi-Touch Photo Viewer Control

Daily Links 04/01/2011

Announcing the Release of Silverlight 5!

New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.5.1 officially released

Getting Started with the Coding4Fun toolkit MetroFlow Control

Ascendency of HTML5: 2011 Year in Review

31 Days of Windows Phone Metro Design | #1 Metro Design Principles and Metro Design Language

PhoneGap for Windows Phone
Cross-platform development

SkyDrive APIs for Docs and Photos—now ready to cloud enable apps on Windows 8, Windows Phone and more

Detecting and simulating low memory devices in Windows Phone 7 applications

How to create a Live Tile in the style of the Contacts Hub

Update windows phone emulator skin

How to: Search for a Contact and get Contact Picture in Windows Phone

Querying Contacts After Converting to WP7 Mango

Marketing your windows phone app - whitepaper

HTML 5 Geo-Location in ASP.NET MVC Web Apps (Part 1)

Daily Links 10 Dec 2011

Icons in the "Metro Look“ for free – Monochrom/Minimalist Icons

Windows Store for Developers Blog

Ree7 Tile Toolkit for Windows Phone 7

How to create Splash Screen with Progress Bar in Windows Phone 7

Testing your (WP) app with various connection speeds

Integrate In-app Purchasing in Windows Phone Apps

WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 8 - What other people are blogging

Testing the Update Process for Windows Phone Apps

What does featuring in the Marketplace do with your app?

Building an Augmented Reality XAML control

Submitting Apps to Marketplace with Background Tasks

Windows Phone 7 Skydrive Library

Daily Links 01/12/2011

Getting Started with Mercurial and TortoiseHG

Get Your App into the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace - Fast!

Don’t use PhoneApplicationService.State[] in Mango

Safe event detachment base class for Windows Phone 7 behaviors

Windows Phone Power Tools

The visual file explorer is probably the best feature thus far

Mango Sample: Data Validation

A weak event listener for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7

Mango Sample: Lock and Run

31 Days of Mango | Day #29: Globalization

31 Days of Mango | Day #31: Promoting your app

Custom map control for Windows Phone 7 from scratch. Part 1.

My custom windows phone theme broke when I upgraded to 7.1. Here's how to fix it

Beautiful Page Transitions (Practically) Free

Daily Links 21/11/2011

November release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit

Track memory usage of your Windows Phone 7.1 app in real time

Continuum Transition for Windows Phone Silverlight Toolkit

31 Days of Mango | Day #11: Live Tiles

31 Days of Mango | Day #19: Tilt Effect

MonoCross 1.0 Released

Mango Sample: Chart Data

Facebook C# SDK
just released a stable build

GART Geo AR Toolkit

Localizing a Windows Phone app Step by Step

The Untimely Demise of the Plugin (and how LOB developments will suffer)

Creating your First Android Application
using MonoDroid

TestDisk Download
Open Source Data Recovery Tool

Metro Station Icons Pack (209)

Daily Links 07/11/2011

Code to select photo on Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone Alerts and Reminders

Getting Started with the Coding4Fun toolkit Tile Control

31 Days of Mango| Day #4: Compass

Announcing: Phone as a Remote Control
"app that lets me remotely control my desktop computer."

Windows Phone Marketplace FAQ

Announcing: Your Last About Dialog (YLAD)
Generic About Dialog for windows phone

Paging Data from the Server with Silverlight

Roslyn CTP Now Available

UX guidelines for Metro style app development

Agile is for your WHOLE Business

Tutorial – Using Visual Studio Solution Configuration to Manage Free and Paid Game Versions

Free Icons Search Engine

Daily Links 18/10/2011

How to deal with payout setup on the Windows Phone Marketplace (Getting a Tax Identification Number (TIN) and Submitting the W-8 form)

New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.4.8 officially released

Testing your Windows Phone application prior to submit to the Marketplace is an essential task

WCF on the Windows Phone 7–The How to Guide

A Simple Way To Get To Get Your WP7 App Rated

Project: Windows Phone Icons

Sharing to Facebook, Twitter and email in Windows Phone 7

Facebook C# SDK
"helps .Net developers build web, desktop, Silverlight, and Windows Phone applications that integrate with Facebook."

BugSense now available for Windows Phone
Bug tracking and Analytics for your mobile devices

New FREE e-book: Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth

EF 4.2 Code First Walkthrough

Google Dart – overview and comments