Windows App Developer Links - 2014-11-17

Windows App Development

• Passionate Windows developer, Rudy Huyn, shares how he obtained 15 million downloads (Building Apps for Windows)

• Get a big hearty slice of the app purchase pie (DVLUP)

• How to capture a photo in your Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime app-Part I: the preview of the photo to capture (Marco Siccardi)

• How to capture a photo in your Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime app-Part II: some common modifications (Marco Siccardi)

• Windows Runtime Optical Character Recognition & Speech Synthesis - adding additional language support (Iris Classon)

• Getting Started Guide using OGRE 3D and Universal Projects (Michael Cummings)

• Mobile authentication with Xamarin.Auth and refresh tokens (Jimmy Bogard)

• Why doesn't the Windows 8.1 Bluetooth Rfcomm Chat Sample work? (Windows Store Developer Solutions)

Cross Platform & IoT

• Tools for Apache Cordova Update: iOS Debugging & Windows 8.1 Support (Visual Studio Blog)

• Native Android Application Development with C++ and Visual Studio 2015 (Rene Schulte)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Memory Usage Tool While Debugging in Visual Studio 2015 (Microsoft ALM)

• Blend for Visual Studio 2015 Preview (Visual Studio Blog)

• Announcing a preview of F# 4.0 and the Visual F# Tools in VS 2015 (Microsoft F# Team)

Learning Materials, Events, Videos, & Podcasts

• Short Videos Demonstrating What's New in Visual Studio 2015 Preview for C#, VB, and F# (Microsoft C# Team)

• Episode 167 - "MVP Summit" (Windows Developer Show)