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

• Workaround For Crash in Performance Profiling Tools for WPF (Arik Poznanski)
• Enhancing Media Experience in Silverlight with Microsoft Media Platform (MMPPF) (Manas Patnaik | CodeProject)

WCF RIA Services

• WCF RIA Services in Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP (Kyle McClellan)

Windows Phone 7

• Using statement lambdas in Visual Basic with Windows Phone 7 (Alessandro Del Sole)
• Scaling code in Windows Phone 7 with the Thread Pool (Alessandro Del Sole)
• MUF Runs on Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight 4 (Nathan Allen-Wagner)
• Metro in Motion #8 - AutoCompleteBox Reveal Animation (Colin Eberhardt)
• Juicing up your Mango development with two Mango Development Learning Resources (Coding4Fun)
• Continuous Client: My first attempt at multi-device user experience transitions (Kelly Sommers)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 15 - Detecting Device Information (Kunal Chowdhury)
• • Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 17 - How to Create a WP7 Reminder Application?
  • Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 18 - Know about various Phone Tasks
  • Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 19 - What is WP7 Accelerometer?
  • Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 20 - Know about the Accelerometer Tool
  • Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 21 - Small Demo of Accelerometer Application
• Sort Data in Windows Phone using Collection View Source - Paul Sheriff's Blog for the Real World (Paul Sheriff)

Kinect

• Kinect Fundamentals #1: Installation & Setup (digitalerr0r)
• • Kinect Fundamentals #2: Basic programming
  • Kinect Fundamentals #3: Getting distance-data from the Depth Sensor
• Kinect and WPF: Skeleton tracking using the official Microsoft SDK (Vangos Pterneas)
• Kinect SDK midi controller (KinectHacks)
• Synapse for Kinect Ableton Patch Tutorial (KinectHacks)
• 3 Incredibly Useful Projects to jump-start your Kinect Development. (Michael Crump)

C++

• Ribbon with C++, Post 6: Ribbon Dynamic Structure Capabilities (Arik Poznanski)

.NET Micro Framework, Netduino, GHI/FEZ and More

• A Gentle Introduction to Netduino (Nuzarazzi)
• Make Ultimate Microcontroller Pack (MakerSHED)
• Dick Tracy only wished he had a watch like this… (Coding4Fun)
• Netduino is opening up to an wider audience with the .Net Micro Framework v4.2 release (Coding4Fun)

Robotics, Electronics, and More

• Jack Eisenmann's DUO Adept: a homebrew 8-bit computer built by a high-schooler (Engadget)
• • Source (Duo Adept by Jack Eisenmann)

Off-Topic Fun

• 6 Foot Tall Lego Barad-dûr (Tower of Sauron) (Flickr)
• Computer Hardware Chart (sonic84.com)
• The Geek-proof Safe system (xkcd)
• Actual Inspiration for Street Signs (Graphjam)
• The Line of the Dead "Put Your Dead to Work" (Neatoshop)