This is Windows Client Developer roundup #8.

I’m off in Reykjavik Iceland this week, speaking about Silverlight and WPF, but put this together ahead of time to ensure we have some great links for this week.

By now, you’ve probably heard that Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4’s launch date is April 12, 2010. The teams are doing more performance work to ensure we all have the best possible experience with the tooling and libraries. I, for one, am glad to see the focus on quality over sticking to an arbitrary release schedule.

The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms, and some Silverlight. 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

• All about ClearTypeHint (WPF Text Blog)
  • Also see WPF Text Measurement Units
• Fudging the non-client area of Custom Chrome Windows using WPF and Win32 (Charlie Robbins)
• Seesmic Look (Win7-optimized Twitter Application in WPF – Awesome Design)
• XamlPadSample Step 1 Source code (Rob Relyea)
• Step 1b
• XamlNodeLoop Sample – changing Name to x:Name during Save (Rob Relyea)

Cross-Product (WPF, Silverlight, Surface etc.)

• Persistable View Models and XAML for Config (Rob Relyea – WPF4 but has SL implications)
• Automatically Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged (Justin Angel – Silverlight, but has WPF implications)
• WPF and Silverlight Design Time Code Sharing Part I (Karl Schifflett)
• Part II
• Using WPF to Resize Images Server-Side in an ASP.NET Application (Bertrand Le Roy)

Windows 7 (and Windows in General)

• Generic Serial Driver for Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform (Arduino and similar boards) (CodePlex)
• The WiX (Windows Installer XML) Project with Rob Mensching (Hanselminutes)

Surface

• IdentityMine’s Retail Map and CSG’s Digital Folio (Surface Blog)

Silverlight

• New Silverlight TV on Channel9 (Channel 9)
• Silverlight 4 COM+ Support (Justin Angel)

Fun Stuff

• Everything I Need to Know About Life, I learned from Dungeons and Dragons (Chad Henderson)
• LG Displays world’s first 19-inch E Ink flexible display (awesome! now where’s my flying car?)
• Steampunk Insects