This is Windows Client Developer roundup #32.

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, sometimes even a little jQuery and HTML5. 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.

Shout-outs

• Are you a developer or designer in the NYC, NJ, PA, VA, MD, DC area working on a Windows Phone 7 application? Dave Isbitski wants to know about you.

WPF and Silverlight General

• WCF RIA Services Part 3 - Updating Data (Brian Noyes)
• A universal value converter for WPF (Colin Eberhardt)
• Banana SplitButton (A WPF-specific fix for hte SplitBUtton and some code analysis improvements for the Silverlight version too) (David Anson)
• Visual State Manager A-Z (Jesse Liberty)
• • And a follow-up
• Authorization Sample 301 (WCF RIA Services) (Kyle McClellan)
• XAML Compliance Suite V1 (Lester Lobo)
• Quick Steps to displaying data using PivotViewer and Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• Rethinking UI Programming - musings on the next competitor to WPF (Paul Stovell)
• State of Data Access in Silverlight 4 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight Video/Audio Encoder & Streamer (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Oh, shiny! Animated Mandelbrot shader effect (Walt Ritscher)

MVVM / Patterns / Practices

• Great Features for MVVM-friendly Objects Part 2 - Change/Dirty Tracking (Damon Payne)
• RIATasks: A Simple Silverlight CRUD Example (using ViewModel and Rx Extensions) (Michael Washington)
• Writing Fuzzable Code (Microsoft SDL blog)

Visual C++

• How we test the compiler performance (Pete Steijn)
• Hilo: Windows 7 development walk-throughs (Soma)

XNA

• Intermission #6/2 - Analogue Controls (Dark Genesis)
• Hello World for XNA Game Studio 4.0 (Don Burnett)
• Intermission #7 - Resource Pools and Particles (Dark Genesis)
• Using PIX with XNA Game Studio 4.0 (Shawn Hargreaves)
• SurfaceFormat.HdrBlendable (Shawn Hargreaves)
• Brute Force 2d Shadows … well sort of … (Random Chaos)
• Rendertarget formats in XNA Game Studio 4.0 (Shawn Hargreaves)
• SetDataOptions: NoOverwrite versus Discard (Shawn Hargreaves)

That Browsery-Webby Stuff. You know: HTML5, jQuery, Script, ASP.NET MVC

• Generic Activity Indicator for Ajax Requests (Rey Bango)
• Not using jQuery JavaScript Templates? You're Really Missing Out (Rey Bango)
• Validating a Dynamic UI with MVC 2 (Steve Michelotti)

Visual Studio 2010 / General .NET 4

• Good News for VB6 Migration - Re-launch of the VBRun developer center (Jason Zander)
• Very cool Visual Studio Extension - VS10x Code Map (Josh Einstein)
• Debugging MSBuild Script with Visual Studio (Visual Studio Blog)
• • Part 2, Part 3

Visual Studio Tools for Office

• How do I programmatically find hte deployed files for a VSTO Add-in? (RobinDotNet)

Windows Phone 7

• Getting started with Windows Phone 7 Resources (Dave Isbitski)
• NDC2010 - Patterns and techniques for building Windows Phone 7 Applications (Jonas Folleso)
• A Mega List of Windows Phone 7 Resources (Frank La Vigne)

Windows 7

• 64-bit Momentum Surges with Windows 7 (Brandon LeBlanc)

Fun

• Alt1977 - Modern technology with a 1977 aesthetic (more devices than last time I looked) (Behance.net)
• Epic Instrument: Bassoforte (YouTube)
  • Check out the Experibass as well
• Lego NXT 8-bit Sample Drum Machine (YouTube)
• Super Mario Brothers Leftovers (YouTube)
• Best Watch Ever (but sooo expensive) (SlashGear)