This is Windows Client Developer roundup #28.

The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Silverlight, Visual C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows 7, Windows Forms, Windows Phone and Visual Studio. If you have something interesting you've done or have run across, or you blog regularly on the topics included here, please send me the URL and brief description via the contact link on my blog.

Shoutouts

• Contest: Enter to win a Ball Watch by Creating One in Silverlight (Synergist)
• Jason Zander put out a list of new platform bits announced at TechEd, including installation links.
• In case you didn't catch the announcement, I put up the Silverlight Reporting codeplex site last week. If you're looking for a way to do simple traditional reports in Silverlight, check it out.

WPF and Silverlight General

• WPF RIA Services Part 1 : Getting Started (Brian Noyes)
• Smooth Streaming 3D Concept Previewed at NAB (Alex Zambelli)
• Tips and Tricks for INotifyPropertyChanged (Jeremy Likness)
• SplitButtoning hairs - Two fixes for Silverlight SplitButton/MenuButton implementation, and true WPF Support (David Anson)
• RIA and SQL Azure (Kyle McClellan)
• • also RIA, Azure and Intellitrace and RIA and Windows Azure
• Hosting cross-domain Silverlight applications (Tim Heuer)
• MVVM Instantiation Approaches (Paul Stovell)
• David Teitlebaum: VideoWall with WPF (Rob Relyea)
• Moving Button Menu (Sharker Khaleed Mahmud)
• WPF Airspace issues when using WEB Browser Control (Jossef Goldberg)

Visual C++

• Exploring the Visual C++ Browse Database (Jim Springfield)
• Introducing Project HILO - Windows 7 C++ Reference Application (Aseem Datar)

XNA

• Fix annoying color bleeding issues by using pre-multiplied alpha (YouTube)

Blend and Expression Studio

• Sketchables - Music Store Prototype Demo (YouTube)
• Why Developers Should, Must, Do Care about the new Expression Blend (Jesse Liberty)
• My favorite Expression 4 features (Soma)

Visual Studio

• Creating a custom View Engine for ASP.NET MVC leveraging Text Template (T4) Engine for Rendering (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Download the Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools (Josh Einstein)
• Document Well 2010 Plus (Radames Cruz Moreno)
• VSIX Best Practices (Gary Horen)
• How to always run Visual Studio as Administrator (Oskar Austegard)
• Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools Screencast (Steve Michelotti)

Deployment

• Mime Types for ClickConce Deployment (RobinDotNet)

Windows Phone 7

• Coding4Fun Cannon - Coding for Windows Phone 7 (Clint Rutkas)
• Windows Phone Developers, Please Hold on Blend 4 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Windows Phone 7 Means Business (Paul Bryan)

Windows

• My PC is Faster than Your PC - WEIShare: Share your Windows Experience Index! (Larry Larsen)

Surface

• Galactic Alliance: four-player gaming on Surface (Surface Blog)

Fun

• Microsoft Kinect revealed: Project Natal finally gets a name (Engadget)
• Lego Chess on a Monster-sized Chess board and NXT-powered pieces. (YouTube)
• • (Is it just me, or do the pawns look like they should be yelling "Exterminate! Exterminate!")
• Using a model rocket to remove your kid's loose tooth (YouTube)
• Looks like a fun XBOX Live pixel-art retro-style game (GameTrailers.com)
• Awesome costumes for your kids (Toxel)