This is Windows Client Developer Roundup #58.

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

• The Visual State Manager Explained (Jeremy Likness)
• A Circular ProgressBar Style using an Attached ViewModel (Colin Eberhardt)
• Silverlight-ready PNG Encoder Implementation Shows one way to use .NET IEnumerables Effectively (David Anson)
• WPF Date Range Double Slider Control (Part 3 - Dependency Properties) (Greg Andora)
• Customizing the WPF DatePicker's Watermark (Matt Hamilton)
• WPF Minimal Button Styling (Greg Andora)
• Creating Sample Data from a Class (Kirupa)
• Windows Developer Center Updates for 2/4/2011 (Gus Class)
• CLR Profiler for Silverlight 4 and .NET 4 is now available (David Broman)

WCF RIA Services

• WCF RIA Services Webinar - Querying and Updating Data (Brian Noyes)

Windows Phone 7

• Reading RSS Items on Windows Phone 7 (Arik Poznanski)
• Back Button Press when using WebBrowser Control in WP7 (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Notes on Silverlight and Phone Toolkits, Testing, and Other Phone Stuff (Jeff Wilcox)
• Windows Phone 7 Sockets and File System Libraries (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Quick run-through of the WP7 Developer Tools January 2011 (Michael Crump)

ClickOnce / Installation

• Bootstrapper Package for SQL Server Expression 2008 R2 (Robin Dot Net)

XNA, DirectX and GPU Programming

• XNA 4.0 Light Pre-Pass: Optimization Round One (J. Coluna)
• How to do OldSchool Fire Part 2: GPU Flames (Nemo Krad)
• Nuclex Framework, Community Character Voting and Morph Targets (Sgt Conker)

.NET Micro Framework

• Innobedded makes Rich Media Extensions for WPF on the Micro Framework (Innobedded)
• .NET Micro Framework - Using Alphanumeric LCDs (Szymon Kobalczyk)
• .NET Micro Framework - Netduino Controlled Servo Robot (Szymon Kobalczyk)
• Netduino at the Harford Hackerspace (Harford Hackerspace)

Kinect

• 3d Face Scanning using the Kinect (Kinect Hacks)
• Real 3D Interactive Physics with Kinect, using OpenNI and XDE (Kinect Hacks)

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET

• Internals of Anonymous Types (Abhishek Sur)
• Copy New Files Only in .NET (Paul Sheriff)
• Get Reflected use TypeDescriptor (Abhishek Sur)

Fun

• Alexander Nevsky by Prokofiev, played on a Theremin (YouTube)
• 4-bit Microcomputer Kit (Maker Shed)
• Tamper Proof Screws Pool on Flickr (Make)
• Toilet Paper Roll Sculptures (Toxel)