Daily Links 17 Oct 2012

Tips for using ads in your Windows Phone apps

Building an App for Both Windows Phone and iOS

[Windows 8] Using SQLite in your Windows Store application

File Manipulation in Windows 8 Store Apps

What Windows 8 Developers Need to Know about App Certification and Publishing

Clearer – A Gesture-Driven Windows 8 To-Do Application

Windows 8 Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 6

Get your TFS 2012 task board demo ready in under 1 minute

TFS 2012 Agile Planning Tools Issue – nested tasks makes the parent task disappear

10 Tips to avoid the typical Windows 8 design traps

Windows Store app Development Snack: Simulator tips & trick

Converting TimeZones in Store/WinRT apps

localizing the displayname of your app in windows 8

Daily Links 10 Oct 2012

WinRT app guide: Step 10: Adding a lightweight database (SQLite) and CRUD support + two-way element binding

Windows Store – Developer Registration Tips

Windows Store app development: Include that privacy policy

Basic Facebook integration for your Windows Phone 7 application

Windows Store Applications–Debugging Crashes

8 tips for your Windows Store apps

How to Self-Host ASP.Net Web API: Part 3 of Many

Helper class for creating TileNotification (win8)

Windows Phone Special Effects

Multilingual App Toolkit for developing Windows Store apps using Visual Studio 2012

W8WIL #6: Leverage the Maps app for location-based features

Porting Windows Phone App to Windows 8

Input Validation in Windows 8 Store apps

Walkthrough: the Windows 8 Settings and About Dialogs

Windows Phone StandardTileData.BackContent

… just a quick heads up if you get an error that looks something like this when creating a pinned tile for windows phone:
”The serialized property BackContent is too long
at Microsoft.Phone.Shell.ShellTileData.SerializeToToken(IToken token)
at Microsoft.Phone.Shell.ShellTile.Create(Uri navigationUri, ShellTileData initialData)”

The issue is that the BackContent property is set to a string with more than 500 characters.

New Windows Phone App–Kwik List

SPECIAL RELEASE PRICE: FREE!!! (No Ads either!)
- please consider posting a review for Kwik List on the marketplace in return.

Kwik List: The simplest, easiest and quickest way to remember things on your windows phone.
Kwik List allows you to make tasks and notes, tag them as lists and share them in a simple easy way on your windows phone.

Features:
- Maintain List Items
- Tag List Items
- Set Reminders 
- Save Items as tasks or notes
- View Calendar Entries
- Email contacts from calendar entries
- Email or Text tag list or individual items
- Pin item or tag list to the phone menu
- Live Tile Updates
- Filter list items you want to see
- Add multiple items at once via KwikList
- Dark and Light Theme support
- Create custom theme colors

Wibcisoft Kwik List

   

   

 

Daily Links 1 Oct 2012

Windows 8 App Bars

Get Your Windows Phone Applications in the Marketplace Faster

Weak Event implementation that works for any event type

Microsoft Research Face SDK Beta
" integrates the latest face technologies from Microsoft research teams. It provides state-of-the-art algorithms to process face images, like face detection, alignment, tracking, and cartoon generation"

Host Silverlight app in dropbox

Creating a settings flyout

Player Framework: an open source component of the Microsoft Media Platform

WCF 4.5 features: Simplified Generated Configuration Files

Windows 8–Connecting to SkyDrive

Why SOLID Matters

Five Things to Know When Designing a Windows 8 App

Getting Started Building Windows 8 Store Apps with XAML/C#

Windows 8 Toolkit - Charts and More

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