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

• Using ICustomTypeProvider in Silverlight 5 to Display JSON Data (Jeremy Likness)
• What is Line Stacking Strategy in Silverlight TextBlock control? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight : gérer une base de données locale (Dot.Blog)
• C#, Visual Studio, Linq, Silverlight, WPF... (Dot.Blog)
• Faut-il bruler la pattern MVVM ? (Dot.Blog)
• Binding on Style Setter in Silverlight 5 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Text Searching in Silverlight 5 ComboBox and ListBox (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A Curious Halfwit HashSet Bug (Matt Hamilton)

Windows Phone 7

• LEDs controlled by a Windows Phone via a netduino (YouTube)
• Metro In Motion #5 - SandwichFlow (Colin Eberhardt)
• The puppet who has cut his strings - Dark Genesis - XNA UK User Group (Simon Jackson)
• Windows Phone Launchers (Paul Sheriff)
• Windows Phone Choosers (Paul Sheriff)

XNA, DirectX, and General GPU Programming

• XNA Shader Programming - Tutorial 25, Perlin Noise using the GPU (digitalerr0r)
• XNA Shader Programming - Tutorial 26, Bump Mapping Perlin Noise (digitalerr0r)
• expected '#extension : <name> : <action>' (digitalerr0r)
• High End Performance Optimizations on the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 (Sgt Conker)
• Geometry aliasing (Shawn Hargreaves)

Visual Studio 2010, LightSwitch and General .NET

• Announcing ALM Roadmap in Visual Studio vNext at Teched (Jason Zander)
• Using Telerik controls in LightSwitch for exporting, filtering, and sorting data - part 1 (Alessandro Del Sole)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch: acquiring images from devices with Visual Basic and the WIA APIs (Alessandro Del Sole)
• Speed up Visual Studio Builds (Arik Poznanski)
• "Sort" of a follow-up post [IListExtensions class enables easy sorting of .NET list types; today's updates make some scenarios faster or more convenient] - Delay's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs (David Anson)
• Introducing Debugger Canvas (Kael Rowan)
• Announcing Xamarin (Miguel de Icaza)

Kinect

• Kung Fu Tetris (KinectHacks)
• Kinect + neural network = gesture recognition (KinectHacks)
• 3D Body Scanner using the Kinect (KinectHacks)

Netduino, FEZ, and .NET Micro Framework

• A Tweeting .NET Micro Framework breathalyzer (Coding4Fun)
• LEDs controlled by a Windows Phone via a netduino (YouTube - dup from WP7 section above)
• Robot Arm controlled by a Windows Phone via a Netduino (from above)(YouTube)
• Netduino is RAD (Coding4Fun)

Commodore 64!

• A PC keyboard for the C64 | A Commodore Geek's Blog (Robby Boey)

Off-Topic Fun

• "The Wall" Originally by Pink Floyd (performed by Mariachi Cabos) (YouTube)
• Excellent dancing/popping/locking/etc. (YouTube)
• Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene II - Much Synth Pron (YouTube)
• Darth Vader Salsa Trombone Playing and Dancing (YouTube)
• Science Bob's Crazy Foam Experiment (YouTube)