This is Windows Client Developer Roundup #61.

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

• Power of Research - the free science online game (Silverlight and Azure) (Power of Research)
• Jounce Part 11: Debugging MEF (Jeremy Likness)
• Binary Drop For the Task Parallel Library for Silverlight (Damon Payne)
• • and Task Parallel Library Ported to Silverlight 4
• Silverlight et le DataTemplateSelector (Dot.Blog)
• Tasks.Show A Windows 7 Developers Resource (Yochay Kiriaty)
• • this is very useful. I'm using it now to organize my own tasks. Source available too, so if you want to change something, you can.

Windows Phone 7

• Searching Twitter on Windows Phone 7 (Arik Poznanski)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 Application with UltraLight.mvvm (Jeremy Likness)

Kinect

• Kinect for Windows SDK to Arrive Spring 2011 (Microsoft Blog)

XNA, DirectX and General GPU Programming

• Parallel Computing using the GPU - Tutorial 5: Grids (digitalerr0r)

C++

• C++ Renaissance: First Symptoms of Contagion in Traditionally Non-Native Teams (Diego Dagum)
• • (Diego picks up on my C++ IE add-in post)
• Windows 7 Recipe - Taskbar Single Instance (Yochay Kiriaty)
• The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 9 (Feb 26, 2011) (Diego Dagum)

Fun

• This kid has the best dad ever. BEST EVER! (YouTube, via Make)
• What if we made Wikipedia into game... Wait, there's Wikipedia Maze! (Coding4Fun)
• Beginner woodworking project for illusionists? (Make)
• • (one theory, another, a model someone else built, that appears to be the solution, the partial solution)
• Hand Painted, er Painted Hand Elephant (Make)
• Escher's "Relativity" in LEGO