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

• WPFSpark 1: SprocketControl (Ratish Philip)
• XAML with .NET Primer Part One (Don Burnett)
• Cubelicious - Silverlight 5 + Balder + Physics + SLARToolkit Augmented Relaity = Triple Win! (Rene Schulte)
• A Solution for Binding Silverlight DataGrid Columns to 2nd Level Collection (Kunal Chowdhury)

Windows Phone 7

• Metro in Motion Part #7 - Panorama Prettiness and Opacity (Colin Eberhardt)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 13 - What is Tombstoning? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• • Tutorial - 14 - Detecting Networking Information of the Device

XNA, DirectX, and General GPU Programming

• Animation with Timers (Crappy Coding)
• And now for something completely different… (Charles Humphrey)
• 2D Skeletal Animations (Catalin Zima)

Kinect

• Microsoft Releases Kinect SDK Beta for PC (KinectHacks)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 game at the Kinect Code Camp (Adam Kinney)
• 3D Drawing with the Kinect (KinectHacks)
• Reason2kinect (KinectHacks)
• Multi-touch LCD Table with Precise Finger Tracking (KinectHacks)
• The busy developers guide to the Kinect SDK Beta (Michael Crump)

C++

• Ribbon with C++, Part 4: Layout Controls in Windows Ribbon Framework (Arik Poznanski)
• • Part 5: Using Galleries with Windows Ribbon Framework
• Blazing-fast Code using GPUs and More, with C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET General

• Debugger Canvas on DevLabs (Soma)
• Debugger Canvas! (DevLabs)

Robotics, Electronics, and More

• Festo - Bionic Tripod 3.0 (YouTube)
• Festo - SmartBird (YouTube)

Commodore!

• How Commodore changed…PONG (mos6502)
• Lunar eclipse with a Commodore (mos6502)

Off-Topic Fun

• Super Mario Shoes (Toxel)
• Steampunk Rotary Smartphone Concept (Toxel)
• CD Stack Lamp (My Diy Blog)
• When Secret Sats Spy on Us, Monsieur Legault Spies Back (Wired)
• 5 Superheroes Who Deserve Movies (Offbeat Earth)