Daily Links 22 May 2013

XMAS Came Early For All Windows Azure Developers!

Icon Explorer – free icons for Windows Phone Developers and Designers

FREE MODERNUI CHARTS FOR WPF, WINDOWS STORE APPS UND SILVERLIGHT PUBLISHED

A Fluent Approach to Windows Store Tiles

Proximity Sensors and Bluetooth in Windows Phone 8

SQL Server Performance-
The Crib Sheet

Image UserControl with FadeIn & FadeOut Animation for WinRT

Android Studio: An IDE built for Android

53-Minute Android Developer Tools Session Video Shows Everything You Want To Know About Android Studio IDE

Windows Store Registration :: Companies and Developers

Windows Phone 8 Training Kit

Announcing the ability to Test Windows Phone 8 applications with Experitest SeeTest

Soon Unity3D development will be free for Windows Phone developers

Daily Links 30 April 2013

Coding4Fun Toolkit v2.0.5

Step by Step working with Windows Azure Mobile Service Data in XAML based Windows Store Apps

Backup and restore on Skydrive in Windows Phone 7

Say What? Incorporating Windows Phone 8 Speech Recognition into Your Apps

Asynchronous programming in C# using async and await

Beginning Distributed Version Control with Mercurial

ViewModel driven multi-state animations using DataTriggers and Blend on Windows Phone

Creating connected Windows Store apps

Introducing: Code Digger, an extension for VS2012

Intelligent SQL Server Maintenance

Windows Phone 8 Training Kit - Update

Win 8 : Develop a cutting edge app with NFC

Google Analytics SDK for Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps

Daily Links 18 Mar 2013

Windows Store LOB Apps with Kona: Getting Started

How to build a multi-touch control for Windows Phone

Windows 8 Toolkit - Charts and More

MULTI-SERVICE AUTHENTICATION THE EASY WAY

Nokia Remote Device Access

A Windows Phone 8 Run Tracking App in 100 Lines of Code

Windows Phone 8: Voice Commands

Lessons learned in Win 8 App Certification

Lex.Db for Windows 8 Store Apps (Part 1) - The Basics

OpenCover
"A code coverage tool for .NET 2 and above, support for 32 and 64 processes (including Silverlight) with both branch and sequence points."

How to Integrate WP7.8, WP8 Live Tiles in your WP7.5 apps?

How to decide: Mobile websites vs. mobile apps

Metro App Site Template MVC / HTML5

Windows Store XAML App–Adding a Privacy Page

Building a shared core between Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8

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