This is Windows Client Developer Roundup #60.

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.

(as an aside, this was the first roundup on which I used my new IE add-in. It easily shaved off about 1/3 the time it takes to create this post. Just like how woodworking gives me the satisfaction of making things I can use in the home, programming is great when I can use it to make tools to make my life easier)

WPF and Silverlight General

• Long Time No See - WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.7.0 (Rene Schulte)
• Night of the Living WM_DEADCHAR [How to: Avoid problems with international keyboard layouts when hosting a WinForms TextBox in a WPF application] (David Anson)
• sudo localize --crossplatform [Free PseudoLocalizer class makes it easy to identify localization issues in WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 applications!] (David Anson)
• Asycnhronous Service Calls with Coroutines (Matt Hamilton)
• 'Content' is NOT 'Text' in XAML (Paul Sheriff)
• Blocking a User with Coroutines (Matt Hamilton)
• Unit of Work in Rich Clients (Paul Stovell)
• Flashcards.Show Version 2 for the Desktop, Browser, and Windows Phone (Yochay Kiriaty)

Windows Phone 7

• Get Twitter Trends on Windows Phone 7 (Arik Poznanski)
• Windows Phone 7 Tombstoning with MVVM and Sterling (Jeremy Likness)
• Must Have Windows Phone 7 Toolkits (Coding 4 Fun)
• Google Sky on Windows Phone 7 (Colin Eberhardt)
• Look at the size of that thing (Dark Genesis)
• Numerous new Windows Phone 7 features coming out this year. First update to hit mid March (Dave Isbitski)
• An update from Windows Phone developers themselves (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Introducing the February 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit (Jeff Wilcox)
• Attaching a Command to the WP7 Application Bar. (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone Pivot Control: Enable text wrapping for the Title (Jeff Wilcox)

XNA, DirectX, and GPU Programming

• List of Commonly Used Value Types in XNA Games (Bob Taco Industries)
• XNA RenderTarget2D Sample (Bob Taco Industries)
• Windows Touch Game Programming in DirectX 10 (Gus Class)
• Custom Gestures for 3D Manipulation Using Windows Touch in C++ (Gus Class)

Netduino, TinyCLR and .NET Micro Framework

• Netduino Firmware v4.1.2 Alpha Lets you use the Netduino as a HID (Chris Walker)
• New SDK from GHI lets you mix native code with Micro Framework code on any device (GHI)
• Netduino Pull up and Pull down Resistors Explained (Sebastian Patten)

Setup and Deployment

• WiX It - A (The?) free and (all?) powerful Setup/MSI builder (Coding 4 Fun)

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET General

• Inversion of Control : Practical usage of Interface, Delegate or Events (Abhishek Sur)
• Visual Studio Jobs (Jason Zander)

Windows General

• Microsoft's Origami Tablet UI and Win 7 Slate PCs (Don Burnett)

Fun

• The Paper Punchtape Synthesizer (with bonus Invention 13 mp3) (555 contest entry)
• Escher Waterfall, in real life (YouTube)
• Impressive. Most Impressive (xkcd)
• Hubble delivers sparkling views of spiral galaxy (MSNBC Photo Blog)
• Toccata & Fugue on Floppy Disks (YouTube)
• Cubelets: Modular Robotic Blocks (Make)
• Well, Actually (Miguel de Icaza)