Windows Client Developer Roundup 069 for 5/15/2011

Pete Brown - 15 May 2011

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 Phone, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services, Netduino and the .NET Micro Framework and more. Sometimes I even include a little jQuery and HTML5. 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

SilverWii - That is connecting a WiiMote to a Silverlight OOB app via NESL (Native Extensions For Microsoft Silverlight) (Coding4Fun)
Inside PivotViewer v2. Episode 1, Legacy Support (Chris Arnold)
Tips: Concatenating strings in Silverlight XAML using StringFormat (Kunal Chowdhury)
Formatting text in Silverlight XAML using StringFormat (Kunal Chowdhury)
Michael's "Mega Collection of Silverlight 5 Beta" Demos (Michael Crump)

WCF RIA Services

Writing a Custom CollectionViewLoader for the DomainCollectionView and MVVM (Kyle McClellan)

Windows Phone 7

.NET WPF Silverlight Commodore XNA WindowsClient WindowsClientRoundup Windows Phone Netduino Micro+Framework Kinect

Neilsays:

Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 1:36:42 PM

I've noticed that each month there are fewer and fewer WPF and Silverlight links. Is interest in them on the wane?

Petesays:

Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 10:58:38 PM

@Neil

There are a few things

1. Blogging tends to slow down around spring/summer
2. I need to update my list of folks I aggregate. Many of the SL/WPF bloggers have been writing about Windows Phone 7 lately
3. Blogging about WPF has definitely slowed down over the past year. I don't think that reflects interest in the technology, however.

Pete