Windows App Developer Links - 2014-11-14
Microsoft & Windows
- New build available to the Windows Insider Program (Blogging Windows)
Windows App Development
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Up to $100 million available to purchase Windows apps, prepare your apps now to take advantage of the it (Building Apps for Windows)
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Ideas and images come together with Collaborate app for Windows Phone (DVLUP)
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Build Network-Aware Windows Phone Apps with Azure Mobile Services and Background Tasks (Visual Studio Magazine)
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C++ Tools Acquisition for Windows Phone and Store Development (Visual C++ Team)
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Returning Task from a Windows Runtime Component (Joost van Schaik)
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Executing and testing geofencing background tasks in Universal Apps (Joost van Schaik)
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Making an App Studio app better (Matt Lacey)
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How to add a Twitter feed to your App Studio app (Matt Lacey)
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Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Drawing with Win2D (Mike Taulty)
Visual Studio & .NET
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Open Source .NET - why should you care? (Filip Woj)
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Optimizing memory footprint: Compression in .Net 4.5 (Sharad Cornejo)
Tools & Services
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Announcing TypeScript 1.3 (TypeScript)
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NuGet 3.0 Preview (Nuget Blog)
Software Architecture, SDLC, & Testing
- Avoid async void methods (Phil Haack)