This is Windows Client Developer roundup #11.

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.

This week I’m on campus in Redmond, and at the MVP Global Summit. I’m looking forward to seeing lots of Silverlight and WPF goodness, as well as meeting folks in the community.

Featured Link: The Book of WPF. If you want some inspiration or just want to see some great real-world examples of WPF applications, check this out.

WPF

• Getting Started with WPF: Hello World in multiple flavors (me)
• Get out of the way with the try (“Minimize to tray” sample in WPF) (David Anson)
• A WPF Voice-commanded Database Application (Codeproject)
• Large Lists in WPF and WCF Part One (Chad Boschert)
  • Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
• Making small fonts readable in WPF 3.5
  • Note in WPF 4, you can use the new GDI-compatible font rendering for even better results
• WPF Sensor application that uses Arduino and the PING sensors (Youtube)
• Pictures
• ColorHelper – how to retrieve the name of a given color or retrieve a color by its name (Olaf Rabbachin)

Windows Forms

• Free charting controls for Windows Forms (and ASP.NET) (Scottgu)

Silverlight

• SmallBasic now supports a one-click Silverlight player as well as new localizations.
  • This is a nice, simple form of basic. Great for beginning programmers or people who just want to simplify their lives

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

• Simplex Noise (like Perlin Noise) in Pixel Shader 2.0 for Silverlight and WPF

Fun

• The 1966 Batmobile (all you’d ever need to know)
• Amazing Paper Dragon
• 8bit today: Datastorm 2010 Production Videos
• Stunningly Preserved 165-million-year old Spider Fossil (Wired Science)