Happy New Year! This is Windows Client Developer Roundup #5, the first of 2010, and the first of the new decade.

The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client (WPF, Surface, Windows 7, XNA, and some Silverlight) developers. If you have something interesting you’ve done or have run across, please send me the URL and brief description via the contact link on my blog.

WPF

• Open Source WPF Reporting Engine
• From Windows Forms to WPF with MVVM: Part 5, Commands (Reed Copsey, Jr)
• New Threading Component (Sacha Barber)
• Magellan Shared Layouts (Master Pages for WPF) (Paul Stovell)
• Is Paul being Evil by putting his controls into the MS Xaml Namespace? (Paul Stovell)
• WPF Reusability Factor – UI with a “Style” (good intro to styling by Shams Mukhtar)
• WPF Reusability Factor – User Controls and Custom Controls (also by Shams Mukhtar)

Fun Stuff

• The Imperial March Performed with Tesla Coils
  • Here’s another one performed on a hard drive
• Corel Paint-it Touch available for Win7 touch-enabled computers. Written in WPF. (for-fee product, $39.99. The entire 2010 suite is written in WPF)