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

• How does WPF WebBrowser Control handle window.external.notify()? (WPF Team Blog)
• A Simple WP7 JumpList in WPF - CodeProject (Ratish Philip)
• A Customizable WPF MessageBox (Arik Poznanski)
• Supercharging Silverlight 5 3D projects with the Babylon Toolkit (Coding4Fun)
• Working with Prism 4.0 (Hello World Sample with MVVM) (Abhishek Sur)
• WPF MarkupExtension Class (Greg Andora)
• WriteableBitmapEx goes NuGet (Rene Schulte)
• The Basics of MVVM (Paul Sheriff)
• The Basics of MVVM in WPF (Paul Sheriff)
• Blinking UI with a CaretBrush (Pavan Podila)

Windows Phone 7

• A Simple Windows Phone 7 MVVM Tombstoning Example (Colin Eberhardt)
• Metro In Motion Part #6 - Rolling List Location Indicator (Colin Eberhardt)
• Metro List View double line - from PSD to Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Metro List View double line (ep. 2) - from PSD to HTML (Adam Kinney)
• Multi-Targeting with Windows Phone 7 Mango tools (XnaUK)
• Augmented Mango - SLARToolkit for Windows Phone (Rene Schulte)
• Why is a Y in the Windows Phone Mango Camera API (Rene Schulte)
• Simplifying UIElementRenderer usage for full-page scenarios (Nick Gravelyn)
• Modifying the Silverlight Toolkit's DateTimePicker for WP7 (jbaird)

XNA, DirectX, and General GPU Programming

• Welcoming Visual Basic Users to XNA (Bob Taco Industries)
• Raymarching on the GPU (digitalerr0r)
• White Lavender - A surface journey on the Mandelbulb fractal (video) (digitalError)
• Procedural landscapes using Perlin Noise (digitalError)
• XNA 4.0 Light Pre-Pass: Alpha masking (J. Coluna)
• Blender 2.57b & XNA 4.0 Part I (Random Chaos)
• • Blender 2.57b & XNA 4.0 Part II
  • Blender 2.57b & XNA 4.0 Part III
• Terrain: Geo Clip Mapping (Charles Humphrey)
• • Bit More Terrain

C++

• Ribbon with C++, Part 1: Introduction to the Windows Ribbon Framework (Arik Poznanski)
• • Ribbon with C++, Part 2: First Ribbon Enabled Application
• COM for the "I did C++ once a thousand years ago, but only do .NET now" Developer -or- In the Defense of COM (Jeremiah Morrill)
• C++ Productivity: Memory Management 101 for the .NET Guy (Jaremiah Morrill)

Netduino, FEZ, and .NET Micro Framework

• The new Netduino Wiki (Netduino)
• Skynet: Use Skype to remotely control the Netduino (Netduino)
• • Video (YouTube)
• Driving an AdaFruit ST7735 TFT display with a netduino (Fabien Royer)

Misc Electronics, Robotics and More

• Check out the Robotinno, now pushing 2 years old. Watch the whole video (YouTube)
  • They cost around $900 each
• A wooden binary computer (Evil Mad Scientist)

Off-topic Fun

• Portal (Ninja of the Night Chell) - Fanime 2011 Masquerade (YouTube)
• Dr. Who as an 80s style anime. This is more than awesome! (YouTube)
• Death Star PR: IKEA Manual: Construct a Lightsaber (and Tardis and Dino) (Death Star PR)
• Flowchart: How to deal with your impending doom (Death Star PR)
• We could all use these stickers (Evil Mad Science)
• The Grand Rapids LipDub (NEW WORLD RECORD) (YouTube)
• Lego minifig-scale Sandcrawler. Impressive. Most impressive. (YouTube)