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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #18.

Starting with this issue, I'll be combining the WPF and Silverlight sections, in recognition of the shared nature and dual applicability of many of the posts, and breaking out the topics more by topic area than just technology.

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.

As to be expected, Windows Phone 7 is a big part of this roundup. This is a big one, so sit back, grab a coffee and enjoy all the great information.

Shout-outs

• If you're up near Redmond and want some WPF for LOB and/or WPF for Windows 7 and .NET 4 training, check out what Karl Shifflett and Jaime Rodriguez have put together.
• Ok, it's a stretch to call this Windows Client, but check out Paul Stovell's jQueryPad. I've been playing a bit with jQuery and will find this really useful, no doubt. Written in WPF. I wish I had noticed this earlier :)

WPF and Silverlight Desktop General

• Simple Silverlight 4 Real-Time Face Detection (Awesome!) (Coding4Fun)
• Commands as XAML Resources (Ward Bell)
• WPF Animation using DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames (Robert's Blog)
• Firing continuous storyboards one after another (Blend) (Tony Corneto)
• A Grouping Listbox (David Anson)
• Getting a DialogResult from a WPF window (Walt Ritscher)
• Use the WPF (and Silverlight) Blur effect to focus attention (Walt Ritscher)
• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business (Brad Abrams)
• Synchronizing control properties with the parent control properties (Unknown Recipes)
• Matrix3dEx on Codeplex (awesome lib that extends Matrix3dProjection) (Rene Schule)

Silverlight and WPF Patterns and Practices

• View / ViewModel Interaction - Bindings, Commands and Triggers (Niklil Kothari)
• Tip: The CLR wrapper for a Dependency Property should do its job and nothing more (David Anson)
• Tip: Do not assign DependencyProperty values in a constructor; it prevents users from overriding them (David Anson)

Silverlight and WPF Typography

• 10 Favorite Open Source Fonts you can Embed in WPF or Silverlight (nerdplusart)
• Silverlight vs. Flash vs. Photoshop Text Rendering (WiredPrairie)

Visual Studio 2010

• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 - Part 4: Direct Hosting of WPF Content (Visual Studio Blog)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 - Part 5: Window Management (Visual Studio Blog)
• Visual Studio 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension (Karl Shifflett)
• Things That Make My Life Hell, Part 1: App Domains (about app domains in Cider) (Pocket Silicon)

Windows Phone and XNA/Silverlight for Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Netflix Application (Channel 9)
• Windows Phone 7 UI Templates (Shazaml)
• XNA or Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 game development? (Silverlight Games 1010)
• Windows Phone 7 Series Icon Pack (Charlie Kindel, Windows Blog)
• Windows Phone Developer Documentation (Charlie Kindel)
• UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 Series (Microsoft)
• Push Notifications for Windows Phone 7 (Sgt. Conker)
• Audio Recording in WP7 (Peter Foot)
• My First WP7 Application (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Panoramic Navigation on Windows Phone 7 with No Code (Microsoft Innovation Center Singapore)
• Free Preview Chapters of the new Windows Phone book by Jaime Rodriguez and Yochay Kiriary (O'Reilly)
• Windows Phone 7 Hardware from Samsung (HTLounge.net)
• Windows Phone 7 Hardware from HTC (Engadget)

Fun

• A bunch of real photos that look 'shopped, but aren't (Offbeat Earth)
• Stunning Interactive Pool Table (never thought I'd see something that made a Surface look small)
• Deep Green & Augmented Reality Pool (continuing with the Pool theme, check out this robot and augemented reality)
• Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking "A Glorious Dawn" Autotuned (via Tableteer)
  • Also from tableteer: Lego: The Force Unleashed and an animation tutorial from the same dude
• Melting Steel with Solar Power (wow!)
• Fake Trailer: Avatar 2 (YouTube)