This is Windows Client Developer roundup #39.

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

• TimeZone Path to new WPF Performance Profiling tools for WPF 4 is now available (WPF Perf Blog)
• WCF RIA Services Part 6 - Validating Data (Brian Noyes)
• Feeling the Earth Move (Coding4Fun)
• Working with CollectionView in WPF (Filter, Sort, Group, Navigate) (Abhishek Sur)
• Presentation Layer - Representing Types (milanCHE)
• BindingFinder Updates (Rob Relyea)
• Field guide to MEF & Silverlight Part 3 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Fluent Validation with MEF and PRISM (Jeremy Likness)
• Custom layout using ContentControl in Silverlight (Sharker Khaleed Mahmud)
• Experiments with WindowChrome (jwalk)
• Analyzing Silverlight Memory Usage: Part 1 - Obtaining Measurements (Mike Cook)
• Silverlight Startup Best Practices (Mike Cook)

XNA

• Behavior - Lesson 7 (Dark Genesis)
• Programming your first XNA 4.0 game for PC, Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7: Pong (Thomas Altenburger)
• Alien Agressors tutorial by Nick Gravelyn (Sgt. Conker)
• Using Ninject with SunBurn (Markus Ewald)
• To GameComponent or not to GameComponent (Markus Ewald)

Windows Phone 7

• XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
• DroppyPop for WP7 Update (Andy Beaulieu)
• WCF on the Windows Phone 7 - The How-to Guide (Dark Genesis)
• LayoutTransformer works great on the Windows Phone platform (David Anson)
• EvoFX Zombies Night Out on WP7 (YouTube)
• Saving State: Execution Model Best Practices for Windows Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 App - Soduku (Part 3)

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4

• Rapid application development with Visual Studio LightSwitch (Alessandro Del Sole)
• Ten things you need to know about Microsoft's Visual Studio LightSwitch (Tim Anderson)

Windows 7

• Windows 7 Touch Resources (Don Burnett)
• Creating an RSS Feed-based Windows Theme Background Slideshow (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 7 Sensors and Location Resources (Don Burnett)

Fun

• Why working from home is both awesome and horrible (The Oatmeal)
• Timelapse video of coding and designing a game from scratch (YouTube)
• Future Rock Band (YouTube)
• Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris (YouTube)