This is Windows Client Developer roundup #14.

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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.

WPF

• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 - Part 2 : Performance tuning (Visual Studio Blog)
• Optimizing Visual Studio 2010 and WPF applications for Remote Desktop (WPF Perf Blog)
• WPF: A fun little Boids Type Thing (sprites and fast drawing) (Sasha Barber)
• This is what happens when two Toolkits fall in love…[The February 2010 release of the WPF toolkit is now available] (David Anson)
• Never miss a message again (WPF desktop message center) (Coding4Fun)
• LocBaml for .NET 4 (Michael Sync)
• 4 Free WPF Utilities I Use Every Day, that come with source (Learn WPF)
• WPF Animation and Effects roundup (We are righteous)

Surface

• Using the RawImage in a WPF application (Surface Blog)
• Surface Physics Download (Dr. Dave)
• TechFest 2010 and "Mobile Surface" (Surface Blog)

XNA

• Precision Matters (get lost in this blog for a bit. Awesome stuff) (Dr. Dave)

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

• Xaml Attributes on Separate Lines (Christopher Bennage)
• • I use this setting on all my machines as it makes it easier to project and to fit into a blog post.
• Microsoft Health CUI February Release (Microsoft Health CUI)
• Diffplex 1.0 Released (.NET diffing library for Silverlight and HTML) (Matt Manela)
• Don't Reinvent the Wheel (Part 2) Silverlight / WPF Project Frameworks (Alvin Ashcraft)

Windows Phone and Courier

• Different Means Better with the new Windows Phone Developer Experience (Charlie Kindel)
• Microsoft's Courier "digital journal" exclusive pictures and details (Engadget)

Fun

• OK Go - This Too Shall Pass (YouTube)
• • Best Rube Goldberg machine I've seen yet, and it's a music video, no cuts (YouTube)
• Detailed Chinese Zodiac carvings - in crayon (Flickr)