This is Windows Client Developer roundup #41.

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

WPF and Silverlight General

• Introducing JetPack - a new Silverlight 4 Application Theme (Tim Heuer)
• Design-time Friendly ViewModels with MEF (Jeremy Likness)
• Threading in a class library (Joel Barsotti)
• Taskbar with Window Maximized and WindowState to None in WPF (Abhishek Sur)
• Autofocus Nested Textboxes with Rx in Silverlight (Jeremy Likness)
• Templates, or Why I Love WPF (and Silverlight too!) (Colin Eberhardt)
• Automated WPF UI Testing using White (DotNetDevDude)
• Step-by-Step Guide to Shape Controls (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Writing Plug-ins for Seesmic Desktop (Tim Heuer)
• The Third Object (Paul Stovell)

Windows Phone 7

• What's the Point of a Windows Phone 7 Cannon if it Doesn't Look great? (Coding4Fun)
• CC Notice - New Extra Credit Samples for Phone (Dark Genesis)
• Silverlight and the Scoreboard WCF Library (WCF WP7) (Dark Genesis)
• DeferredLoadListBox (and StackPanel) help Windows Phone 7 lists scroll smoothly and consistently (David Anson)
• Using the Accelerometer on Windows Phone 7 (Dave Edson)
• Using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks in the emulator (Peter Foot)

XNA

• Using CLR Profiler 2.0 with XNA 4.0 (Crappy Coding)
• I Can Has Platformer Part 4 and Part 5 (Casey Young)
• Character Movement (David Kendall)
• Rolling World Tutorial (Christian Schlager)
• Game Studio 4.0 Release Dates and Versions (Aaron Stebner)
• Touch input on Windows in XNA Game Studio 4.0 (Shawn Hargreaves)

HTML5

• Flash to Canvas Experiment: Bonsai Tree (Adam Kinney)

Fun

• Human Pac-man performance by Guillaume Reymond (YouTube)
• The Cri-Cri: The World's Smallest Electric Plane (Inhabitat)
• The .NET Micro Framework - Hardware for Software People (Scott Hanselman)