This is Windows Client Developer roundup #26 on Memorial Day 2010, a few hours late.

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

Shout-Outs

• Adam Kinney announces the Expression Studio 4 Launch

Silverlight and WPF General

• SilverShader - Introduction to Silverlight and WPF Pixel Shaders (Rene Schulte - Coding4Fun)
• A distributable (.exe) Silverlight OOB Application (Alnur Ismail)
• An Extension Method to Dump Control Templates of WPF Controls (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Silverlight out-of-browser Dynamic Modules in Offline Mode (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight Weather Widget Part 1 - Using Model View ViewModel Concept (Sharker Khaleed Mahmud)
  • Part 2
• WPFPerf Performance Profiling Tools for WPF 4 are now available (WPF Perf Blog)
• WPF Visualizer in Visual Studio 2010 (WPF Perf Blog)
• .NET 4 Image Scaling Change Reminder (WPF3d Team Blog)
• Using the BackgroundWorker in a Silverlight MVVM Application (Jim Jackson)

WCF RIA Services

• Async Validation with RIA Services (Jeff Handley)
• RIA Services using HTTPS (Kyle McClellan)
• RIA Services and Windows Live ID (Kyle McClellan)

Windows Phone 7

• You are already a Windows Phone 7 Programmer (Jesse Liberty)
• You Spin me Round (Like a Record) Easily animate orientation changes in WP7 (David Anson)
• Shuffleboard: A Windows Phone 7 Sample Game (Andy Beaulieu)
• Updated Silverlight Unit Test Framework bits for Windows Phone and Silverlight 3 (Jeff Wilcox)

XNA

• Augmented Reality Domino Knock-Down Game (Ohan Oda - Coding4Fun)
• Planetary Rings (Dr. Dave)

Visual C++

• Announcing Hilo (Visual C++ Team Blog)
• Programmatically adding/removing/querying VC++ Build Customizations (Pavan Adharapurapu)

Visual Studio 2010

• VS 2010 Productivity Improvements - Part I (Soma)
• Publishing a Custom Web Control (Part 1 of 2) (Martin Tracy)
• Enabling HTML5 schema validation in Visual Studio 2010 (Oskar Austegard)
• Visual Studio Managed Multi-Targeting: Part 2: Multi-Targeting in Action (Binu N. Chacko)

Fun

• Pixel - A Pixel Art Documentary (Youtube)
• I didn't realize Incom was making cars now (Epic Win)
• Dan the Man - Pixel Art Animation (YouTube)