Looking back, I wrote a ton of blog posts in 2010. Here are some of the posts, leaving out most of the announcements, quickies, event info, and the weekly roundup posts.

Thoughts

• Should Developers also be UX Professionals and Graphics Designers?
• Getting a Job after Graduation Requires More than Just GPA and Resumes
• A Week in the Life of a Community PM at Microsoft
• Rant: HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Display Market: Or, I want my pixels and DPI now!
• Creating Awesome Applications when you're Clueless
• 10 Tips to Keep yourself Sane while Working from Home (or alone)

WPF Roadmap

• The Present and Future of WPF
• WPF 4 Release: A guide to the new features
• The Book of WPF

WPF and Silverlight Getting Started

• 10 things Beginning Silverlight and WPF Developers Need to Know
• Getting Started with WPF : Hello World in multiple flavors
• Essential Silverlight and WPF Skills: The UI Thread, Dispatchers, Background Workers and Async Network Programming
• Book Excerpt: The Silverlight Layout System
• Creating your First WPF Application: Twitter and Windows 7 Taskbar Integration
• Creating your First Silverlight Client Application: Twitter and COM, of course
• Article: The Essential WPF/Silverlight/XNA Developer and Designer Toolbox
• Getting Started with WPF 4: Button Controls Part 1 - The Button is a Content Control
• Getting Started with WPF : Button Control Part 2 - Basic Styling
• Silverlight/WPF: Don't name elements unless you have to: why x:Naming everything is bad

WPF and Silverlight Text and Presentation

• WPF: Now with Less Fuzz
• More on Image Resizing in .NET 4 vs .NET 3.5sp1: Bilinear vs Fant
• Quick Tip: Applying Text Options throughout your WPF 4 Application
• Customizing the Caret and Selection Styles in WPF 4
• Layout Rounding
• WPF (and Silverlight): Choose your Fonts and Text Rendering Options Wisely
• Crappy Image Resizing in WPF? Try RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode

Binding in WPF and Silverlight

• Puff the Magic POCO Binding and INotifyPropertyChanged in WPF
• Strategies for Improving INotifyPropertyChanged in WPF and Silverlight

WPF and Silverlight General Information

• Dynamically Generating Controls in WPF and Silverlight
• 20 Interesting WPF Projects on CodePlex (Some for Silverlight too)
• Windows Forms to XAML: Do I really need a Designer for Silverlight or WPF Applications?
• Building the new PDC Trivia Application
• Creating an Office Communicator Application for Do Not Disturb
• Custom Placement within an ItemsControl in WPF
• Dual Targeting WPF and Silverlight (and Windows Phone 7)
• Silverlight in Action Book Excerpt: Creating a Custom Panel
• Book Excerpt: Creating Raw Media (Audio and Video)
• Silverlight Tip: Using LINQ to Select the Largest Available Webcam Resolution
• Creating Dynamic Windows 7 Taskbar Overlay Icons
• Creating a Simple Report Writer in Silverlight 4
• Breaking Apart the Margin Property in Xaml for better Binding
• Silverlight and WPF Tip: Fitting items in a ListBox
• Scanning an Image from Silverlight 4 using WIA Automation
• WPF: Binding to Anonymous Types from LINQ
• Tip: Zoom your browser when taking Silverlight Screenshots for Print
• Rotating and cropping an image in WPF
• The MIX10 Trivia Application - Silverlight, WCF, ASP.NET
• Article: How to Get Started in WPF or Silverlight
• Binding to a Dictionary in WPF and Silverlight
• WPF / Silverlight Quick Tip: INotifyPropertyChanged for indexer
• WPF Tip: Identifying WPF Applications
• Creating Customized UserControls (Deriving from ContentControl) in WPF 4
• WPF Quick Tip: How to Restrict Window Size in WPF 4
• Silverlight Quick Tip: Controlling the Out-of-Browser Window
• Moving a WPF Window with Custom Chrome
• The Win7 Sensor and Location API: Introduction to Working with Location in .NET 4 Beta 2
• A WPF Behavior for Window Resize Events in .NET 3.5
• Scanning images in WPF via WIA

Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools Walkthrough
• Tracing WPF in Visual Studio 2010

.NET General

• Tip: New .NET 4 String Function to Check for Empty Strings
• Encoding/Decoding URIs and HTML in the .NET 4 Client Profile
• Tip: Anonymous Event Handlers in VB.NET

Visual C++

• Your First MFC C++ Ribbon Application with Visual Studio 2010
• My First Windows C++ Application in Ages: Hello World in Win32 with Visual C++ 2010

Netduino and .NET Micro Framework

• Netduino, Netduino Plus, Fez Panda, Arduino Deumilanove
• Netduino Basics: Using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)
• Using a 4x20 HD44780-controlled LCD Display with the Netduino
• First Experiences with Netduino and the .NET Micro Framework

Windows Phone 7

• Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application

Ultimate Developer PC

• Ultimate PC 2010: New Power Supply
• Adventures with Water Cooling the Ultimate Dev PC 2.0: the Equipment
• Installing Windows 7 from a USB thumb drive to an SSD is Wicked Fast
• Last Night's Ultimate PC Live Bench Build
• The Ultimate Developer Machine 2.0
• The 7.9 WEI PC
• Ultimate PC 2010

Interview Posts, Videos, and Podcasts

• Tsitsi Gora on User Experience Design for Silverlight
• Channel 9 Video: Joel Barsotti on CalMAN Calibration Software in WPF
• Silverlight.TV with John Papa and Me!
• Pete at Microsoft: WCF RIA Services Team Interview
• Musings on the 9-cell grid and its uses in software
• Touch and Windows CE in the Real World
• Connected Show Podcast #29 With … Me!
• New Channel 9 Video: Josh Blake on NaturalShow Multi-touch in WPF
• New Channel 9 Video: Emil Stoychev on the CompletIT Silverlight Showcase Site
• New Channel 9 Video: Mime Cloud, Umbraco, WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7
• New Channel 9 Video: Cory Plotts on Snoop for WPF
• New Channel 9 Video: Dave Campbell on Silverlight Cream
• New Channel 9 Video: Richard Costall on Silverlight Manic Miner for Windows Phone 7
• New Channel 9 Video : Bruno Sonnino on DiskPie Pro in WPF
• New Channel 9 Video: Robert Kihm on Aptify RAD
• New Channel 9 Video: Your Favorite Thing at MIX10
• Pete Blois on Expression Blend, Windows Phone, Rooler
• New Videos up on Channel 9: WPF with C++ and WCF RIA Services
• AudioOrchard: Awesome Silverlight app, Interview with Eric Herbrandson

Most Popular

For the curious, here are the posts/articles which received the most traffic through all of 2010:

• .net Naming Conventions and Programming Standards - Best Practices (wrote this in 2002 or so, still the most popular page on my site)
• Rant: HDTV has Ruined the LCD Display Market: Or, I want my pixels and DPI now!
• WPF 4 Release - A guide to the new features
• Announcing Microsoft Ribbon for WPF RTW
• 20 Interesting WPF Projects on CodePlex (Some for Silverlight too) (this was written in November)
• The Present and Future of WPF (wrote this in October)