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This is Windows Client Developer Roundup #54.

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.

WPF and Silverlight General

• Integrating IE9 Pinning with Microsoft Silverlight (Leon Braginski)
• Performance on Silverlight TV (Silverlight Perf Blog)
• Using the Bing API in Silverlight (Sharker Khaleed Mahmud)
• Exploring the Ribbon Control for Silverlight Part 1 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Customizing Silverlight ChildWindow Style using Blend (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Create Custom Speech Bubbles in Silverlight (Michael Crump)

XNA, DirectX and GPU Programming

• How to do Old School Fire Part 1: CPU Flames (Nemo Krad)
• Why does ContentManager.Load or TitleContainer.OpenStream say Fine not Found? (Shawn Hargreaves)
• LCD Response Time (Shawn Hargreaves)

Surface

• Microsoft Surface 2.0 Data VIsualization Controls by InfoStrat (Joshua Blake)

Kinect

• Kinect SuperHero Again - with Source Code (KinectHacks)

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET General

• Canceling BackgroundWorker - Don't watch e.Cancel (Nathan Allen-Wagner)
• Free program (and source code) makes it easy to use text-to-speech from your programs and scripts (David Anson)
• Isolated storage, Windows and ClickOnce (Shawn Hargreaves)

Fun

• The Mythology of Commodore told in about 15 minutes by Jim Butterfield (Daniel Auger)
• An Atmel ATmega168 MOS 6581 SID Player (Mike Kohn)
• Bandsaw Magic (YouTube)