This is Windows Client Developer roundup #27 -- on Expression Studio 4 Launch Day!

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.

WPF and Silverlight General

• Silverlight 4 Minor Update - June 2010 (Tim Heuer)
• WPF - I'm Not Dead Yet! (Brian Noyes)
• Layout Techniques for Windows Forms Developers (Karl Shifflett)
• How to: Show text labels on a numeric axis with Silverlight/WPF Toolkit Charting (David Anson)
• Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Virtual Event (Michael Scherotter)
• Magellan 2.0 Feature Preview (Paul Stovell)
• Force WPF to Update UI (Robert Iagar)
• Working with ICollection/List/IEnumerable that contain custom classes (Robert Iagar)
• Sneak Preview of CinchV2 in Action (Sacha Barber)
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• Getting Started with Silverlight: A Path through the Learning Material (Jesse Liberty)
• Building a Simple Forms Application using the Silverlight Tools for VS2010 and WCF RIA Services (Mark Wilson-Thomas)
• Create Silverlight Master/Detail UI Using Data Sources Window Object Data Source (Karl Shifflett)
• Creating and Consuming Resource Dictionaries in WPF and Silverlight (Karl Shifflett)
• Looking for Silverlight BiDi or RTL? Use the FlowDirection Property (Walt Ritscher)
• Microsoft Translater Client Library for Silverlight (Tim Heuer)

Visual C++

• How we test the compiler back-end (Alex Thaman)
• Project Hilo - a complete Windows 7 Visual C++ Sample Application (Jason Zander)

Blend and Expression Studio

• Blend 4 to get huge SketchFlow Prototyping Upgrade with new Mockup Controls (Don Burnett)
• Expression Studio 4 Launch on June 7 in NYC (Adam Kinney)
• Expression Blend Advanced Options square wallpaper (Adam Kinney)
• New Behaviors in Expression Blend 4 with Adam Kinney (Don Burnett)
• Why you should check out Expression Blend Behaviors (Dave Isbitski)

Visual Studio

• VS 2010 Productivity Improvements, Part II (Soma)
• Better Parallelism in MSBuild 4 with YieldDuringToolExecution (Cliff Hudson)

Deployment

• Enhanced Logging in ClickOnce Deployment (RobinDotNet)

User Experience

• Coding4Fun - NUI with Josh Blake (Coding4Fun)

Fun

• Awesome geek and gamer cakes (Cake Wrecks)
• NPR: All Things D (Autotune, Chatroulette, Unboxing, and other Memes via NPR) (YouTube)