This is Windows Client Developer roundup #38.

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, WCF RIA Services, 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.

WPF and Silverlight General

• WPF Nested ScrollViewer / ListBox Scrolling (Josh Einstein)
• How to Render Bitmap or to Print a Visual in WPF (Abhishek Sur)
• WPF ZoomableApplication3: When not to ApplyTransform (Kael Rowan)
• WCF RIA Services Part 5 - Metadata and Shared Classes (Brian Noyes)
• Using the WPF RibbonGallery Control (Lester Lobo)
• Authorization Sample 302 - Site Map Navigation (Kyle McClellan)
• Authorization Sample 303 - Metadata-Aware Authorization (RIA Services) (Kyle McClellan)
• Screencast: Developing a "touchy" Twitter browser using VS2010 and Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch beta (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Simplifying Silverlight Web Service Calls with Reactive Extensions (Rx) (Jeremy Likness)
• Developing a (very) Lookless Silverlight Radial Gauge Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• Presentation Layer - Design Time Experience (milanCHE)
• Create Custom Draggable Cursor like Acrobat in Silverlight (Sharker Khaleed Mahmud)
• Ribbon Browser Application without the title row (Varsha Mahadevan)

WPF and Silverlight Patterns and Practices

• Automated WPF UI Testing using IronRuby and Cucumber with Bewildr (DotNetDevDude)
• Rolling your own Module-Level Security for a WPF MVVM Composite Application (DotNetDevDude)

Deployment

• CodePlex ClickOnce Publishing from directly within Visual Studio (Greg Duncan)

XNA

• Now it's time for a little transition (Dark Genesis)
• Multitouch Game Loop Manipulation Processing (Dr. Dave)
• Jemgine.Hex now avaialable for download (Sgt. Conker)

Windows Phone 7

• Storing and playing media on Windows Phone 7 (Tim Heuer)
• WP7 Questions, Concerns and Disappointments (Michael B. McLaughlin)
• How to pin your game or app's tile in the emulator (Michael B. McLaughlin)
• XNA and WP7 Load Times (Michael B. McLaughlin)
• XNA WP7 Getting Started (Coding4Fun)
• Code to easily animate orientation changes for Windows Phone applications now supports fade (David Anson)
• Montage of Windows Phone 7 Ads and Partner Messaging (Don Burnett)
• Exploring List Capacities and Growth on the Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
• iPhone to Windows Phone 7 Tutorial #0 (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone Performance Progress Bar Update: Part 2, remember to turn IsIndeterminate Off when not in use (Jeff Wilcox)
• Matali Physics now supports Windows Phone 7 (Komires)
• Developing for the Windows Phone 7 - Paret 4: Tombstoning (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Xbox LIVE Games for Windows Phone 7 Unleashed at Gamescom (Michael Klucher)

Visual C++

• Hilo Update - Introducing "Hilo Annotator" (Visual C++ Team Blog)

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4

• LightSwitch Beta 1 Now Available, Building Your First App (Jazon Zander)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 Now Available (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Visual Studio Lab Management (Soma)

Fun

• Learn your ABCs the comic book way (Offbeat Earth)
• Time Lapse of a Virgin Atlantic 747 being painted in new livery (Vimeo)
• The Chipophone, an 8 bit synth created out of an old organ (YouTube)
• • How it was built
• The hardware chiptune project (check it out: all from a tiny board)
• A long time ago, before death by PowerPoint (Presentation Zen)