• CSS loading behaviors when using WinJS page controls (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Windows Phone App Development

• Inside Windows Phone – Data binding (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Understanding XAML Namescopes (Pedro Lamas)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Icon Explorer (GeekChamp)

• Please update to the latest version of Web Essentials 2012 after installing VS2012 Update 2 (.NET Web Development and Tools Blog)

Other

• Finding a Profitable Niche in the App Store (Steve Tibbett)

• Resources for Developing Windows Store apps (Dr. Zhiming Xue)

• Using the background task completed event and signalDataChanged to communicate with the app (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Windows 8 App Design Template: E-Commerce Electronics (GeekChamp)

Windows Phone App Development

• Windows Phone 8 navigation part 2-routing, route details,tombstoning-and testing (Joost van Schaik)

• Assert.ThrowsException the async way (Pedro Lamas)

• Cimbalino Toolkit: Services (Scott Lovegrove)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET (Scott Guthrie)

• New Features in the Latest ReSharper 8 EAP (JetBrains .NET Tools Blog)

Other

• Save: Petzold’s Programming Windows 6th Ed with coupon at Amazon.com (Microsoft Press)

• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Enabling New Relic Performance Monitoring on Windows Azure Websites (Scott Hanselman)

• Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Using Typescript in Windows Store apps (Andrea Boschin)

• Some useful async extension methods (Nigel Sampson)

• Using resources in background tasks (it’s OK, but not with WinJS) (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Be good, or be good at it (Robert MacLean)

Windows Phone App Development

• Trial experience for apps, first steps (Steven White)

• MonoGame: Using libraries with Windows Phone projects (Simon Jackson)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Google Analytics SDK for Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps (Tim Greenfield)

Free Training Materials & Events

• App Builder Virtual Summit (Microsoft)

• WinRT Business Apps with Prism: App State Management (Brian Noyes)

• Prism for Windows Runtime: Integrating a Dependency Injection Container (Francis Cheung)

• Launching Skype from your own Windows Store App (Geert van der Cruijsen)

• Caveats with form elements (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• #Win8Dev Tutorial: Programmatically download a File in WinRT apps (Kunal Chowdhury)

• Develop High Performance Windows 8 Application with HTML5 and JavaScript | Best Practices & Tips (Dr. Doris Chen)

• HTML5 Gaming: benchmarking your sprites animations to target all devices & browsers (David Rousset)

• Register now: Free live Q&A session with Charles Petzold on Tuesday (Microsoft Press)

Windows Phone App Development

• How to manage orientation in Windows Phone using VisualStateManager (Matteo Pagani)

• 8 Great Reasons to Design for Windows Phone 8 (Sarah Lamb)

• Windows Phone 8-flickR searching demo from UK Dev Camps (Mike Taulty)

• Additional Windows Phone 8 Application Bar icons! (Kristina Rothe)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• NuGet for C++ (Visual C++ Team Blog)

Other

• My modern “Start Screen” (Part 1) (Jose Fajardo)

• Walking While Working (Steve Smith)

• Featured apps in the Windows Store (Windows Store for developers)

• When do I use data binding? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Android to Windows 8: The Complete Guide (Adam Grocholski)

Windows Phone App Development

• Porting a real win8 app to WP8-part 1 (Nico Vermeir)

• Porting a real win8 app to WP8-part 2 (Nico Vermeir)

• Porting a real win8 app to WP8-part 3 (Nico Vermeir)

• Windows Phone – Authenticate and Authorize users with Server Scripts in Windows Azure Mobile Services (Channel 9)

• Detect the screen resolution for Windows Phone OS 7.1 applications (Dan Ardelean)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• NuGet 2.5 Release Notes (NuGet)

• Introducing InAppPurchaseToggle for Windows Store In App Purchase (Jason Roberts)

• Windows Phone 8 Training Kit (Microsoft Download Center)

• How to profile a JavaScript Windows Store App for performance problems (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• Using Visual Studio’s Javascript Memory Analysis tool to find memory leaks on your Windows 8 Javascript app (David Catuhe)

• Using and abusing CallerMemberName (Nigel Sampson)

• #wp8tip: Adapt images to different resolutions (Andrea Boschin)

• Annotating PDF Documents in a Windows 8 Store App (Mike Taulty)

• Using WinJS.Navigation.history.current.initialPlaceholder = true (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Windows Phone App Development

• Using the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK to localize Windows Phone OS 7.1 projects (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – The complete series (Matteo Pagani)

• Android to Windows 8: Top 10 tips for passing Windows Store certification (Jennifer Marsman)

• Android to Windows Phone 8 Part 6: Creating a Second Page (Adam Grocholski)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Use Mobile Services to easily schedule tasks in Windows Azure (Fin Cooper)

• UNITY, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Windows Azure (Lee Stott)

Free Training Materials

• Free Jump Start: May 2, 2013 – Windows Store App Essentials using C# (Microsoft Press)

• Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Handling asynchronous operations (Andrea Boschin)

• HttpClient Basic Authentication for WinRT (Mikael Koskinen)

• A convention-based data template selector for Windows 8 XAML Store apps (Diederik Krols)

• Now with Javascript: Reading PDF and XPS on your Windows 8 application using WinRT (David Catuhe)

• Testing Tip #7: Simulating a metered connection (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Previewing image uploads with FileReader in HTML5 (Michael Williamson)

• Validating all observables w/ Knockout validation and Typescript (Derik Whittaker)

• Solved Exception in Passing Relative URI to Windows Runtime (Dhananjay Kumar)

Windows Phone App Development

• Creating a Custom ToastPrompt Control for Windows Phone (Den Delimarsky)

• Windows Phone app submission “signing failed” (Matt Lacey)

• How to start Windows Phone 8 Emulator without Visual Studio (Luis Cantero)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• MVVM Stack for WinJS by Corrado Cavalli available on Codeplex (Davide Zordan)

Visual Studio

• Learn IntelliTrace (Visual Studio ALM + Team Foundation Server Blog)

• Develop a cutting edge app with NFC (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Intro and Considerations (GeekChamp)

• All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Static Tiles and Tile Icons (GeekChamp)

• All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Tile Properties (GeekChamp)

• Create app bar button icons using Segue UI Symbols font (Toni Petrina)

• Code snippet for testing network connectivity (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Behavior of Windows.System.Display.displayRequest.requestActive applies only to the foreground app (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Construct 2 Tip #2: Settings Flyouts (Jim O’Neil)

Windows Phone App Development

• Inside Windows Phone – code samples (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Facebook SDK for .NET – Featured in the Facebook Technology Partner program (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Windows Phone 8 navigation part 1-geocoding, tombstoning-and testing (Joost van Schaik)

• Using different WMAppManifest files for release and debug builds (Toni Petrina)

• WP Toolkit : Adding a item in the SelectedItems collection of a LongListMultiSelector actually adds 2 items… (Jonathan Antione)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• My essential tools and resources for Windows 8 & Windows Phone development (Nigel Sampson)

• jQuery 2.0 Released (jQuery Blog)

• Startups unveil new apps for Windows 8 at DEMO Mobile (Windows Store for developers)

• App Art (Jeremy Foster)

• Windows 8, Background Tasks and the ‘Noisy’ NetworkStatusChange Trigger (Mike Taulty)

• Reading PDF and XPS on your Windows 8 application using WinRT (David Catuhe)

• Construct 2 Tip #1: Implementing Snapped View State (Jim O’Neil)

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 5) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – Adding Push Notifications (Channel 9)

• Opportunities to use the Resuming Event (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Does licensechanged fire when an expiration date passes? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Testing on a Microsoft Surface and other ARM devices (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Store Certification Tip #10: Release date and promo codes (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• How to perform horizontal scrolling with mouse wheel in Webview for Windows Store apps? (Thomas LeBrun)

• We need your questions for a Q&A session with Charles Petzold (Microsoft Press)

Windows Phone App Development

• Defining your app’s requirements for a great customer experience (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Controlling a hardware prototype with your Windows Phone (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Windows Phone Series – MVVM and ApplicationBar (Rahul Nath)

Apps to Look At

• Windows Phone App Manager (Nick Randolph)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Repository Pattern with Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows Phone app and Windows Store app (Nicolas Humann)

• Microsoft.Bcl.Async is Now Stable (Base Class Library (BCL) Blog)

• Windows Azure Infrastructure Services, Virtual Machines and Virtual Network, now are generally available! (Fin Cooper)

• Creating connected Windows Store apps (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) (Visual C++ Team Blog)

• Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 3 of 3 (Visual C++ Team Blog)

• MVVM – Does it really matter? (Rahul Nath)

• The last Visibility Converter (Nigel Sampson)

• Avoiding UI thread overload when using simulatenous async operations (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Testing Tip #6: Testing the Share Contract (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Determining Process Architecture at Runtime (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• A few design tips for “Early Learner” apps (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Inter-Process communication with protocol association in WinRT – Part 3 (Christophe Nasarre)

• [Windows 8] Insert a local CSS/JS file in the HTML of a Webview (Thomas LeBrun)

• Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: Adding Authentication (G. Andrew Duthie)

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 4) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – Azure Mobile Services (Channel 9)

Windows Phone App Development

• ViewModel driven multi-state animations using DataTriggers and Blend on Windows Phone (Joost van Schaik)

• Accelerate cool app development with the Coding4Fun Toolkit (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Windows Phone Series – Preloading Content (Rahul Nath)

• [WPDev] CustomMessageBox + OnNavigatedTo + Navigate = Exception! (Jonathan Antione)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• In-App Purchase and Mobile Services (Josh Twist)

• Facebook SDK for .NET (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• TypeScript Compile and Minify Powershell Script (Geoff Webber-Cross)

• My son Benjamin was born 5 months ago today.
• This is my 200th Windows Store Developer Links post.

Time sure does fly.

Windows Store App Development

• Feature Spotlight: Search (Windows Store for developers)

• Design-time Data for Windows Store Apps with C# (Jeremy Likness)

• Protecting Your Code (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Considerations for turning a web app into a Windows Store app (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Using Open Data in mobile apps: lessons learned (Andrei Marukovich)

• Sizing images while preserving aspect ratios (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 2 of 3 (Visual C++ Team Blog)

• Win8 XAML App : how to debug the javascript in a WebView! (Jonathan Antione)

• Integrating Marked Up analytics with Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)

• [Windows 8] Using a custom font in your Windows Store apps (Thomas LeBrun)

• More Dev Center features – we’re listening (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

Windows Phone App Development

• First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – Lazy loading with Panorama and Pivot (Matteo Pagani)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• WCF Data Services 5.4.0 Release (WCF Data Services Blog)

• AdRotator V2 progress report (Simon Jackson)

Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Now Available (S. Somasegar)

• .NET Memory Allocation Profiling with Visual Studio 2012 (.NET Framework Blog)

• XAML (Windows Store apps) editing in Visual Studio broken with NVIDIA Optimus (Robert MacLean)

• Build faster and high performing native applications using PGO (Visual C++ Team Blog)

TFS

• VS/TFS 2012.2 (Update 2) released today (Brian Harry’s blog)

• Building and Validating Windows Store Apps with Team Foundation Service (Thomas LeBrun)

• Windows Store app support in jQuery version 2.0 (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• At GDC, game developers reveal early success on Windows 8 (Windows Store for developers)

• Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 1 of 3 (Visual C++ Team Blog)

• Lessons Learned From Rushing To Market (Jeff Blankenburg)

• Lessons Learned In Using Microsoft Ads (Jeff Blankenburg)

• Windows 8 Store Applications Vs. WPF Applications (Jesse Liberty)

• Ensuring your Windows store app knows of a language change (Tim Heuer)

• WinRT Settings with Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)

• Creating touch-based rotation in Windows 8 XAML Store apps (Diederik Krols)

• Windows 8 – When Saving Isn’t Saving and Opening Isn’t Opening (Mike Taulty)

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 3) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – ASP.NET Web API (Channel 9)

• Microsoft DevRadio: How I’ve Made OVER $100k with My Windows 8 Apps (Channel 9)

• [Win8] The cached file updater contract or how to make more useful the File Save Picker contract (Jonathan Antoine)

• C++/CX : how to fix the “precompiled header file is from a previous version of the compiler” error (Jonathan Antoine)

• Switching Project Type Between Windows Runtime Component and (.NET) Class Library (Filip Skakun)

• WinRT component: How to generate a GUID? (David Catuhe)

Windows Phone App Development

• New middleware makes porting games to Windows Phone easy (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Using named events to coordinate foreground apps and background agents (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit Now Available for Windows Phone 8 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Fullscreen XNA games on Windows Phone 8 devices (Nokia Developer Wiki)

• First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – Pivot (Matteo Pagani)

• First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – Panorama (Matteo Pagani)

• Microsoft’s advice about Panoramas is wrong! (Matt Lacey)

• Where to get icons for your app? (Matt Lacey)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Unity open beta for Windows Store and Windows Phone apps (Fin Cooper)

• Developing Windows Store games (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• Building Secure Windows Store Apps (Andrei Marukovich)

• WinRT Sharing with Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)

• Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 1 (Why doesn’t StorageFile have a close method?) (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 2: My God, what are all those stream types about? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 3: What are these buffer things? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 4: don’t streams and buffers make file I/O complicated? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Files, Streams, Buffers, and Blobs: Part 5: What are MSStream and Blob objects in HTML5? (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Windows 8 (or XAML generally): Loading Images with Progress/Fallback Content (Mike Taulty)

• 28 days in – Windows Store Analytics for my Balloons game (David Isbitski)

• Push Notifications for Specific Users (Jeremy Foster)

• The Slider’s Guide to the MVVM Galaxy (Diederik Krols)

• Stupid Question 164: What is the difference between Telemetry and Analytics data in RE to Windows Store Apps? (Iris Classon)

• Microsoft DevRadio: Develop Apps for Windows 8 & Windows Phone with Tiggzi (Channel 9)

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 2) UX Guidance for Handling Large Data in Windows 8 Apps (Channel 9)

• Microsoft DevRadio: How to Include Advertising in Your Windows 8 apps (Channel 9)

Windows Phone App Development

• First steps with Caliburn Micro – The Application Bar (Matteo Pagani)

• Debugging binding issues is hard. Having simpler code makes it easier (Matt Lacey)

• 10 Tips for designing your mobile APIs (Matt Lacey)

• Updating App to Windows Phone 8 Using a Startup Project (Mikael Koskinen)

• Unit testing async Windows Phone 8 code on the UI thread with VS 2012.2 CTP4 (Joost van Schaik)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• NuGet Package of the Week #13 – Portable HttpClient makes portable libraries more useful (Scott Hanselman)

• Okra App Framework v0.9.6 Released (Andrew Wilkinson)

• Improvements in Version 0.9.6 of the Okra App Framework (Andrew Wilkinson)

Other

• Inner Workings of Immutable Collections on Channel 9 (BCL Blog)

That’ll teach me to go on vacation.

Windows Store App Development

• Lessons Learned About Capturing Keystrokes in Windows 8 (Jeff Blankenburg)

• Lessons Learned in Windows 8 Scaling (Jeff Blankenburg)

• Alive with Activity, Part 3: Push notifications and Windows Azure Mobile Services (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8-Application Lifecycles (Mike Taulty)

• Windows 8 Storing Data With SQLite (Jesse Liberty)

• Smooth Streaming Client SDK for Windows 8 (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Mixing links and flyouts in Settings (WinJS) (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Saving Credentials from the Credential Picker (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 1) UX Guidance for Handling Large Data in Windows 8 Apps (Channel 9)

Windows Phone App Development

• Build Apps for Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Using the SQLite database engine with Windows Phone 8 apps (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Debugging C++ components in Windows Phone 8 projects (Toni Petrina)

• First steps with Caliburn Micro – Use your own services and how to pass data between different pages (Matteo Pagani)

• First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – Using launchers and choosers (Matteo Pagani)

• Online privacy when building apps for kids (Matt Lacey)

• Using a complimentary accent color (Matt Lacey)

• Simple reverse geocoding with Windows Phone 8 and MVVMLight (Joost van Schaik)

• Using PowerShell to automate the build process of your Windows Phone app (Jeremy Alles )

• Missing OpenStreamForWriteAsync on my StorageFile (Matthias Shapiro)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Azure Mobile Services: Pre-Release .NET Client Libraries with WP7.5 and PCL Support (Mike Taulty)

• Authentication Issues with Windows Azure Mobile Services (Nick Randolph)

• Build a Following for Your App – Before You Launch! (Jim O’Neil)

Other

• “Invoke the method with await”… ugh! (Stephen Toub)

• Designing for Multiple Form Factors (Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog)

• Building your app version defense strategy – Part II (Josh Twist)

• MVVM in WinJS Part 3 – Binding Initializers and Two Way Binding (Phil Japikse)

• Asynchronous Commands in Windows Store Apps (Jeremy Likness)

• Testing Tip #5: View States and Screen Resolutions (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Windows 8 Development Tips #10: Take advantage of promotions (Brent Schooley)

• Windows Store XAML App-Adding a Privacy Page (Mike Taulty)

• The Incredible Rabbit Inferno – “Your” App Now in the Windows Store! (Jim O’Neil)

• Microsoft DevRadio: Using the GeoLocation API for Your Windows 8 Apps (Channel 9)

Windows Phone App Development

• Migrating ANIDs to Windows Phone 8 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Windows Phone 8 – Company Hub Development (Jean-Sébastien DUPUY)

• A Reactive Extension (Rx) use case in a Windows Phone app (Jeremy Alles)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• WP8 Emulator Skin Switcher (CodePlex)

Other

• Flash in Windows 8 (IEBlog)

• So You Wanna Make a Game? (G. Andrew Duthie)

• Disney Fairies: The evolution of hub screen box layout in Windows Store apps (Pete Brown)

• Inter-Process Communication with file association in WinRT – Part 2 (Christophe Nasarre)

• Resources for Windows Live Services (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Windows Phone App Development

• Tips for localizing Windows Phone apps – Part 2 (Windows Phone Developer Blog)

• Windows Phone lockscreen (Gavin Smyth)

• NCLDR on Windows Phone 8 (Matt Lacey)

Visual Studio

• Use the Git command prompt to supplement Visual Studio (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• Using XAML with DirectX and C++ in Windows Store Apps (Doug Erickson)

• Using OData in a Windows Store App (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Sharing code: adding navigationservice (Sara Silva)

• Unity 4 Early Access for Windows Store apps (Unity Blog)

• MetroAppSite: Free, Open Source Metro-Style Website Templates for Your Windows Store Apps (Aaron Stannard)

Windows Phone App Development

• First steps with Caliburn Micro – Messaging (Matteo Pagani)

Apps to Look At

• Windows Store app highlight: AppSwitch, finds apps similar to the apps on Android and iOS (WinBeta)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Portable.Licensing is a cross platform software licensing framework which allows you to implement licensing into your application or library. (GitHub)

• HealthVault Library for Windows 8 (CodePlex)

• Introducing the ReSharper 8 EAP (JetBrains)

Other

• Building your app version defense strategy – Part I (Josh Twist)

• Developing a WinRT component to create a video file using Media Foundation (David Catuhe)

• Performance Tools #3 (Videos) (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• WinRT XAML Calendar (Sebastien Pertus)

• Episode 61 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Great Windows 8 Apps (Robert Green)

• Launch Your App at a Microsoft Store! (Jim O’Neil)

Windows Phone App Development

• Send speech commands to your Windows Phone 8 app (Johan Bjärneryd)

• Turning Geocode Query into a proper async operation (Nigel Sampson)

• Windows Phone RSS reader app template (Rajen Kishna)

Tools, Samples, Services, Frameworks, & Libraries

• Xaml Candy (Windows Store)

• Update to Immutable Collections (Base Class Library (BCL) Blog)

Visual Studio

• Use Git 0.8.0.0 to run scheduled builds and resolve conflicts (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012: Now Available with Office 2013 and .NET Framework 4.5 support (Office Development with Visual Studio)

• Windows 8 Dev guide (Geek Champ)

• Avoid mixing JavaScript and C#/VB (memory usage) (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Windows 8 Series – Drop Down Button (Rahul Nath)

• Semantic Zoom and LINQ: Better Together (Diederik Krols)

• Windows 8 Game JumpStarts – March 6 and 14 (Jim O’Neil)

Windows Phone App Development

• Download the Windows Phone 8 Training kit (Susan Ibach)

• Chatting up your Windows Phone 8 Apps (Greg Duncan)

• PhoneGap and Windows 8 (Shawn Wildermuth)

• Enum.GetValues for Windows Phone (and portable libraries) (Toni Petrina)

• “Fast Resume” for your windows phone app to give a better user experience for your users (Ahmed Aboulmagd)

Other

• TFS Kanban board Swim lane customization walk through (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• Alive with activity, part 2: Writing and debugging services for live tiles (Windows 8 app developer blog)

• Delivering access to knowledge: Wikipedia (Windows Store for developers)

• Advanced MVVM concepts using Contoso Cookbook: An analysis of a complete MVVM application: Part 2 (Gill Cleeren)

• Binding to an ENUM in Windows 8 (Jerry Nixon)

• Data caching in Windows 8 apps (Igor Ralic)

• What Windows Azure Mobile Services can do for an app (Kraig Brockschmidt)

• Modern (“Metro”) Style Icons for Windows Phone and Windows 8 (Windows Phone 7 Nuggets)

• Microsoft DevRadio: Reactive Extensions for Windows 8 (Channel 9)

• Building Apps for Both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8: (01a) Comparing Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Part 1 (Channel 9)

• Quick Hits Issue #5: Resources for App Developers and User Groups (G. Andrew Duthie)

• Windows 8 Development INFOKIT (Ibrahim Kivanc)

Windows Phone App Development

• Windows Phone Series – Incremental Loading (Rahul Nath)

• Persisting SkyDrive Login on Windows Phone 8 via LiveSDK (Lance Larsen)

Visual Studio 2012

• March CTP (“CTP4″) of Visual Studio Update 2 now available (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)

• Now Available: Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (S. Somasegar)

Other

• Kanban customizable columns, “under the hood” (Visual Studio ALM + TFS Blog)