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Here’s a list of interesting Windows Client Development links I found this past week. In particular, check out the free font site for legally usable fonts for WPF and Silverlight – an excellent find.

WPF

• MSDN: Optimizing Performance: Data Binding (via imapcgeek)
• MSDN: Optimizing WPF 4 Application Performance (via ramil)
• Multi-touch in WPF 4 – Part 1 (Anson Tsao)
• Silverlight / WPF Data Visualization Development Release 3 (David Anson)
• Free Commercial-Use Fonts, Many that work in WPF and Silverlight (via Robby Ingrebretsen)
• Hacking Kaxaml to work on .NET 4 Beta 2 (Mike Taulty)

Windows 7

• IE 9: Surfing on the GPU with Direct 2D (via Channel 9)
• Developing with the Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Developing for Windows 7 Taskbar – Thumbnail Toolbars (Yochay Kiriaty)

Concepts, Directions and Futures

• The Future of Client App Dev : WPF and Silverlight Convergence (me)
• Razorfone: a conceptual Windows 7 and WPF-powered multi-touch phone retail experience (YouTube)

Just for Fun

• The Year’s Most Amazing Scientific Images | Popular Science