This is Windows Client Developer Roundup #51. The First Birthday edition of the roundup. The first edition of the roundup was posted on 12/7/2009, and contained just a few links. I created the roundup to draw attention to quality Windows Client developer blog posts around the world, and also as an outlet for geek stuff I found to be fun :)

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, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services, sometimes even a little jQuery and HTML5. I also include fun non-Windows client tech like the .NET Micro Framework. 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.

Shout-Outs

• Inspire Improvements to Windows Phone Documentation (Looking for Volunteers!)

Silverlight and WPF General

• Chronos v2.0 Beta 3 Available for download (WPF MDI and nice UX) (Carlos Guzman Alvarez)
• Native Extensions for Microsoft Silverlight (Coding 4 Fun)
• Silverlight and WCF Service Consumption: Event vs. APM (Jeremy Likness)
• I just upgraded my WPF Application from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4 and now my images look terrible (Learn WPF)
• Old School Silverlight Effects (Jeremy Likness)
• Exploring Reactive Extensions (Rx) through Twitter and Bing Maps Mashups (Colin Eberhardt / Code Project)
• Grouping Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Halfwit Extensibility - Notifications (Matt Hamilton)
• SystemColors Reference (Patrick Finnigan)
• An Icon Overlay Notifier for Halfwit (Matt Hamilton)

Silverlight 5 Features and Firestarter

• Announcing Silverlight 5 (Scott Guthrie)
• Silverlight 5 Plans Revealed (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 5: From Silver to Gold in One Release (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight 5 - What's New (Michael Crump)
• New Features Announced for Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Why a 64 Bit Runtime for Silverlight 5 Matters (Bart Czernicki)
• Silverlight 5 Coming in 2011 (Frank La Vigne)
• • also: Top 10 New Features in Silverlight 5

WCF RIA Services

• Learning about WCF/Silverlight and WCF RIA Services via videos (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• WCF RIA Services Toolkit December 2010 (Jeff Handley)
• Introducing an MVVM-friendly DomainDataSource: The DomainCollectionView (Kyle McClellan)
• Collection Binding Options in WCF RIA Services SP1 (Kyle McClellan)
• T4 Code Generator December 2010 Update (Varun Puranik)

Windows Phone 7

• Currency Converter for Windows Phone 7 (Coding 4 Fun)
• DynamicOrientationChanges and TransitionFrame create a comprehensive transition experience for WP7 (David Anson)
• A quick and easy extension to HyperlinkButton for Windows Phone 7 (Jeff Wilcox)
• WP7- Orienteering (Nemo Krad - XNA UK UG)
• PhoneHyperlinkButton updated: now supports web, email, text, and phone call tasks (Jeff Wilcox)
• Using Isolated Storage on Windows Phone (Paul Sheriff)

XNA, DirectX, and GPU Programming

• Xbox 360 and Guitar Controller Feedback (Bob Taco Industries)
• Parallel Computing using the GPU - Tutorial 1, Getting Started (digitalerr0r)
• • Also: Part 2: Functions
• XBuilder - Free/OSS XNA 4 Content Viewer VS2010 Extension (Greg Duncan)
• MVC in Games (Roy Triesscheijn)

Visual Studio 2010, LightSwitch, and .NET General

• Announcing VSI Builder 2010, a new extension for VS 2010 (Alessandro Del Sole)
• Quick Tip: Right-click VS 2010 Command and Admin Command Prompt (Jeremy Likness)
• Beginner's Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch Part 4 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Color Printing Extension now Available (Brittany Behrens)

Windows

• Unboxing the EXOPC (Andy Beaulieu)

Fun

• Wow did these folks get old (Let it Be by people who used to have careers) (YouTube)
• Waterfall kayaking (YouTube)
• Wii Didn't Start the Fire - A Brief History of Video Games (YouTube)
• Microscopic sculptures (Toxel)
• Wingsuit base jumping in Norway (YouTube)
• Jeri Ellsworth on how to create a TSA-like body scanner (YouTube)
• Proximity sensor Scare crow (YouTube)
• Toy Car Highway (must see) (YouTube)