Windows App Developer Links - 2012-11-06

Windows Store App Development

• Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript (Addy Osmani)

  • "As you develop, if you care about memory usage and performance, you should be aware of some of what's going on in your user's browser's JavaScript engine behind the scenes..."

• Windows 8 Design Handbook (Ratio Interactive)

  • "This site is a collection of explanations of the most important aspects of the new Windows 8 design language..."

• Connecting Windows 8 applications with services: Part 6: Integrating the cloud through the Live SDK and roaming data (Gill Cleeren)

  • "In this 6th part, we'll start by looking at the Live SDK and the integration we can build around Live..."

• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #5: Settings Contract (Jeff Blankenburg)

  • "Today we are kicking off a series of posts focused on contracts, starting with Application Settings..."

• Add people tagging feature to your Windows Store application (Thomas LEBRUN)

  • "People tagging is a feature that can be found in a lot of applications that manipulate pictures (like Windows Live Photo Gallery, Picasa, etc.) but it's also used on some well-know web applications like Facebook! Today, we'll see how to add this feature in your Windows Store application..."

• Building Windows Store Apps in HTML5 for Your Surface RT (Jeff Prosise)

  • "How would you go about building a Windows Store app in pure HTML5 - one that doesn't rely on WinJS, but instead one whose UI and logic are coded in HTML5 and JavaScript in such a way that the same UI and logic would work just as well on iOS, Android, and other operating systems? It's easier than you might think..."

• Problem: Unable to activate Windows Store app: The App1.exe process started, but the activation request failed with error ‘The app didn't start' (Iris Classon)

  • "After installing it in a PCL, adding a project and attempting to add other packages the app failed to start. Giving me an error message that didnt help much..."

• Register now for Wowzapp 2012!! (Ed Donahue )

  • "Join thousands of developers worldwide, November 9-11, 2012, for Wowzapp the worldwide hackathon for Windows and build apps for the next generation of Windows..."

Windows Phone App Development

• Windows Phone 8 developer platform highlights (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

  • "Built on a common core shared with Windows 8, the dev platform is all new - from the underlying subsystems to the APIs and tools. Because so much has changed, I wanted to take a moment to touch on the highlights..."

• What's new in Windows Phone 8 SDK for developers (Yordan Pavlov)

  • "The Windows Phone 8 SDK includes many new APIs, giving developers many new opportunities and allowing them to create better apps. In this article we will take a quick look at all the new APIs and capabilities in the Windows Phone 8 SDK..."

• Clarifying Windows Phone 8 HTML5 Apps (Shawn Wildermuth)

  • "If you made it to build or spent much time watching the videos one of the stories many heard from Microsoft revolved about creating HTML5/JS applications for the Windows Phone 8. Unfortunately the story confused a lot of people..."

• 8 days of Windows Phone 8 | Day 7: Proximity capabilities (Geert van der Cruijsen)

  • "Today, almost the last post we'll dive into proximity capabilities also known as bluetooth and nfc..."

Tools, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Windows Phone Power Tools (CodePlex)

  • "The Windows Phone Power Tools are a natural extension to the developer tools that come with the Windows Phone SDK..."