This is Windows Client Developer roundup #12.

I’ve just returned from the MVP summit and some meetings with the product teams, and all I can say is “wow”. We have some seriously cool stuff coming, and I can’t wait to talk about it.

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

My link of the week is the new online Windows Phone 7 Series demo. This is a Silverlight app that runs a simulation of the phone so you can get a feel for the awesome new UI. Check it out.

WPF

• WPF TabControl series – Part 3: Non-wrapping scrollable TabPanel (Olaf Rabbachin)
• Be sure to check out the other parts in this series
• The WPF Must-Grok List (Christopher Estep)
• And a follow-up post
• WindowHelpers – hot to retrieve a window reference by the window’s name (Olaf Rabbachin)
• What’s new in .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate Documentation (WPF SDK)
• WPF – catch events even if they are already handled
• How to process command line parametrs or arguments in a WPF application

Silverlight

• Silverlight 4 Hack: Using Native/Desktop CLR Without COM Registration (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Saluse MediaKit for Silverlight (codeplex)

Windows Phone

• Windows Phone On-line Demo
• TWC9: Windows Phone 7 Series, Hanselcart, MS Deploy (Channel 9)
• Countdown to MIX10: Charlie Kindel and Windows Phone 7 Series (Channel 9)
• First Look: Windows Phone 7 Series Hands on Demo (Channel 9)
• Windows Phone 7 Series: everything you ever wanted to know (engadget)

Surface

• The Hard Rock Cafe comes to Seattle (Surface Blog)

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

• Magenic Studios Silverlight/WPF Contest starts 2/22
• A banded StackPanel implementation (David Anson)
• XamlSchemaContext/XamlType/XamlMember – a command line example (Rob Relyea)
• Known Issues for Visual Studio 2010 RC (Cider Blog)

Fun

• Man Babies, gah!
• Cool Robot Dance Troupe Routine (via Phil Haack)