Daily Links 21 Feb 2013

Visual Studio Unit Testing Enhancements for Windows Store and Windows Phone

Setting up Unit Testing in Windows Phone 7 and 8

Windows Phone 8: NFC (Near Field Communication)

Simple golden rules for async / await

An overview of UI Controls from Win RT XAML Toolkit

New Launchers in Windows Phone 8

How using Raygun.io makes Windows Store submission a breeze

Windows Store App - Adding Advertising

New pattern for the Design Patterns Library: Rules Pattern

Mocking with Foq

5 Steps to Containerize your Enterprise Mobile Apps

Introducing Durandal
Javascript MV* Library

Portable HttpClient for .NET Framework and Windows Phone

Implement a ‘smart banner’ for your Windows Store app

Daily Links 13 Feb 2013

Pivot and Panorama have moved AND changed in WP8

Using Portable Class Libraries with Windows 8 / Windows Phone 8 MVVM

A Cool Way to Promote Your App
How-to app video using Expression Encoder

Async Performance: Understanding the Costs of Async and Await

12 Lessons Learned for a New Team Lead

Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely

Coding4fun toolkit released (WP8 support & more)

Windows Phone 8: Bluetooth

ShowMessageBox for WP8 & W8

Windows 8: Creating Great App Bar Buttons

Submitting your App to the Windows Store and Avoiding Common Submission Errors

Preparing your Windows Store app for a world market

WP8 New Location APIs : Part 2 Location Tracking and Background Location Tracking

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

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 2 Jan 2013

Geoposition advanced tracking scenarios for Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone 8 SDK - Deploying Multiple Enterprise Applications

Windows Phone 8: Multiple Screen Resolutions

Changing the name of a Windows 8 Store app

10 Things Silverlight Devs Need to Know About the Windows Runtime

AvalonDock for WPF
Docking control lib for WPF

Player Framework for Windows Phone 8

Using the adcontrol from code in Windows Phone 8
Minimum capabilities you need to run the ad control in WP8

Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough Using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0 – Part 1

QuickLight
"C# to Javascript compiler allows a developer to write C# code and then compile it to Javascript which can be run in any web browser. This makes it possible to write applications in C# that target any platform."

Awaitable critical section

The 4 Most Important Skills for a Software Developer

An AnimatedFlipView to use in your Windows Store apps!

Draggable markers with Windows Phone maps API

10 Scrum Methodology Best Practices

Windows 8 internet connection stopped working

For some odd reason my internet connection ceased to work a few days ago. A bunch of things including system restore didn’t help. Eventually I found a link that suggested switching on the “Enable Enhanced Security Mode” in IE 10. Viola! That fixed the problem

Now the question is: What did M$ do that requires this to be turned on just to get internet access?!

Daily Links 29 Nov 2012

WP7 Localize
Translation tool for your WP Apps

Windows Phone 8: Compile in the Cloud

31 Days of Windows 8: Gyrometer

31 Days of Windows 8: Accelerometer

31 Days of Windows 8: Light Sensor

31 Days of Windows 8: Inclinometer

Developing a Windows 8 Application prototype

Implementing Ads on any page in your Windows 8 XAML app–part 1

A Simple Way To Use App Simulator For App Purchases

Async pack for Visual Studio 2012: why it’s useful also for Windows Phone 8 projects

Solving Real-world Problems with Windows Azure Web Sites

Windows Azure Training Kit - November 2012

Windows Phone 8 Training Kit

Writing a Calibre frontend for Windows8/WinRT using ‘SQLite for WinRT’

Adding Windows Phone 8 Tile functionality to Windows Phone OS 7.1 apps