This is Windows Client Developer Roundup #53, the first of the new year

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.

The post is crazy huge because I was on vacation for the holidays, but you all were still writing. In any case, you have plenty to fill your Friday now :)

Silverlight and WPF General

• An RSS Reader for All Screens - Sharing your View Model and Code-behind between Windows Phone 7, Silverlight, WPF, Surface (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• A Silverlight MVVM Feed Reader from Scratch in 30 Minutes (Jeremy Likness)
• Getting rid of INPC Using Aspects (Sacha Barber)
• MVVM Light ActivityCommand (Matt Hamilton)
• Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Colin Eberhardt)
• Physics Helper Library updated to work with Farsee Physics Engine v3.2 (Andy Beaulieu)
• Coroutines with MVVM Light (Matt Hamilton)
• Updated SMF Thumbnail Scrubbing Sample Code (Michael Scherotter)
• Lessons Learned in Personal Web Page Part 3: Custom Panel and Listbox (Jeremy Likness)
• Prevent your Silverlight .xap file from caching in your browser (Michael Crump)
• Animated Vertical Scrollable Content in Silverlight (Sharker Khaleed Mahmud)
• Prism 4 Custom Transitioning Region (Sacha Barber)
• Jounce Part 8: Raising Property Changed (Jeremy Likness)
• Simplified Grid Markup for Silverlight and WPF (Colin Eberhardt)
• WPF Tutorials (Abhishek Sur)
• How to Automatically open/close the DropDown-portion of the WPF ComboBox Control What is o (Olad Rabbachin)
• ThumbnailImage - A WPF Custom Control (Matt Hamilton)

WCF RIA Services

• RIA Services Output Caching (Mathewc)
• Using RIA Services with ComboBoxes and Enums (Kyle McClellan)

Windows Phone 7

• Windows Phone 7 Updates (Microsoft)
• SnakeMobile for Windows Phone 7 (CodeProject)
• Using XML Files on Windows Phone (Paul Sheriff)
• Using Sterling in Windows Phone 7 Applications (Jeremy Likness)
• Listen to your Phone - Getting User Feedback with System Information (Rene Schulte)
• Using the CameraCaptureTask for Windows Phone 7 (Andy Schwam)
• Get Application Title from Windows Phone (Paul Sheriff)
• How to Localize a Windows Phone 7 application that uses the Windows Phone Toolkit (David Anson)
• Dynamic Tile Push Notification for Windows Phone 7 (Jason Zander)
• Sending Windows Phone 7 Screenshots in Email (Rene Schulte)

XNA, DirectX, and GPU Programming

• Parallel Computing using the GPU - Tutorial 3: Integrate CUDA 3.2 into Visual Studio 2008 (digitalerr0r)
• • And: Tutorial 4: Kernels in Parallel
• A matter of controls, Part 3 (Dr Dave)
• Deferred Lighting with Shadows (Nemo Krad)
• XNA 3.1 to XNA 4.0 Cheat Sheet (Nelxon)
• StarFight (Paul Stovell)

Surface

• Microsoft and Samsung Unveil the Next Generation of Surface (Surface Blog)
• The Microsoft Surface 2.0 Experience (YouTube)
• The Surface Platform for v 2.0 - WPF 4, XNA 4, 64 bit supported (Microsoft)

Visual C++

• "Off by Default" Compiler Warnings in Visual C++ (Jon Sturgeon)
• Issues with F1-Help in C++ Projects (Ulzii Luvsanbat)
• My VC++ Project is Building Slower in VS2010. What do I do now? (Renin John)
• Staying Current with Visual C++ 2010 (Kate Gregory)
• Making an Exception (Diego Dagum)

Visual Studio 2010, Lightswitch, and .NET General

• Autotune.NET (Coding4Fun)
• Free tool and source code to temporarily prevent a comptuer from entering sleep mode - 32 and 64 bit (David Anson)
• Beginner's Guide to Visual Studio Lightswitch Part 5 (Kunal Chowdhury)

Fun

• The List of Common Misconceptions (Wikipedia)
• Anatomy of Gadgets (Toxel)
• Pretty sure this machine was voted "Most likely to kill everyone around it" (YouTube)
• They just don't make commuter trains like this anymore (Jalopnik)
• Augmented Reality Magic Mirror using Kinect (Youtube)
• 2011: Is it "The Future" yet? (Offbeat Earth)