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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #10.

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

• Windows 7 Sensor Trigger for WPF Applications (Synergist)
• My WPF 5 Wishlist (Paul Stovell)
• Layout Rounding (WPF Text Blog)
• Bindable Run (WPF Text Blog)
• TypeConverters with en-US machines with customized cultures (Rob Relyea)
• Getting Started with WPF 4: Button Controls Part 1 – Button is a Content Control (me)
• I’m going to start posting more “Getting Started” style posts where I assume little to no WPF experience. Feedback is welcome.
• Taming the Expander Control (Karl Schifflett)
• How to Create Your Own Threaded DataSourceProvider (Sacha Barber)
• Sound Generation in WPF Applications (Petzold on MSDN Mag)
• This is similar to what I did in Silverlight with the Synthesizer

XNA

• Make an Ocean with XNA (Coding 4 Fun)

Surface

• The Surface Monster Returns! Nom nom nom (Surface Blog)

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

• C# Snippets for Properties that support INotifyPropertyChanged (Nathan Allen-Wagner)
• Quick tip:Commenting out Properties in Xaml (Laurent Bugnion)
• Jon Gossman: The State of MVVM (WPF Disciples)
• Guide to creating Expression Blend add-ins (David Burela)

Silverlight

• A ton of things you can do with COM automation in Silverlight 4 (Justin Angel)

C++ / Native Windows Code

• Using Sensors in your application – Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)

Fun

• Spray-on Liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything (Physorg)
• Sounds cool, and like something that will keep TV lawyers busy in 20 years
• Super-realistic garage door stickers (I wonder what the real product looks like)
• 100 Awesome game-inspired cupcakes (can you guess them all?)