Daily Links 21 Sep 2012

nokia lumia 920 skin

Updating Windows 8 Tiles using C#

The Windows Store Submission Process

I think I just snapped
Handling snapped view in Win 8

Code Snippets for Windows Store Apps

The Most Common Errors in Windows Store Submissions (and How to Avoid Them)

Win8 App Bars–What to watch out for

5 Key User Experience Design Principles

Preparing for Windows Phone 8 SDK release

Get up to speed with Windows 8: a tutorial series

in app purchase with #win8dev #winrt

How to create and debug a background task in Windows 8 – Part 2

Windows Phone to Windows 8: User Interface

WP7 ReorderListBox improvements: rearrange animations and more

A Helpful Guide for Writing Your Startup’s Executive Summary

Connecting Windows 8 applications with services: Part 3: Background transfers and tile interactions in Windows 8

Custom Styles and Templates in Windows Phone: CheckBox

Daily Links 06 Sep 2012

Testing Windows 8 apps using Visual Studio 2012

WP: Memory Profiling: The Instances View

Getting started with SQLite in Windows Store / WinRT apps

WinRT XAML Toolkit

Announcing Windows Azure Mobile Services

Building an End-to-End Windows Store App - Part 2: Integrating Cloud Services

Scrum + Kanban = ScrumBan, an Easy Scrum Upgrade

Offline Web Application

Publishing Metro App to Windows Store

Anchoring Augmented Reality Objects In The Real World On Your Windows Phone

Ensuring WCF Routing Flexibility

A Unified Approach to Client-Side Storage

UX guidelines for Windows 8 Store apps are now available as a handy pdf download

Windows Phone Emulator Color Render Issue - Fix

A few days ago my emulator decided it wasn’t going to render colors properly:

… this is what it should look like:

… turns out that the issue was the 3D stereoscopic setting on my NVidia display card:

.. I turned is off, and all was well again.

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 16 Jul 2012

Dynamically toggle PanoramaItem visibility

Bing mapcontrol Offline Tiles Solution

Creating Enterprise Line of Business Apps for Windows 8

WinRT: Example of Using Periodic Notifications for Live Tiles

Resolution scaling of Windows 8 Metro apps

How to Capture Images w/ the WebCam in WinRT (C#) applications.

How to configure DLNA between Windows Phone and Windows 7

Windows 8 Metro Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 1

Creating Metro style apps that stand out from the crowd

Windows 8: Top 10 Reasons Why I choose XAML Over HTML5

#windowsphone development tip: turn on tombstoning when debugging

I’ve been doing windows phone development for a while now, and only recently became aware of this setting:

... available in the project properties page of your windows phone project in Visual Studio.
Basically tombstones your app every time it’s deactivated instead of keeping it in memory. It’s turned off by default – but this is typically something you want to keep on while developing.

Happy Coding