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.

Happy 4th of July - United States Independence Day! You can tell there's a holiday and many vacations this week, as almost no one actually wrote about work topics :)

WCF RIA Services

• RIA Services EF Code First Support (Jeff Handley)
• WCF RIA Services Support for EF 4.1 (and EF Code-First) (Varun Puranik)

Windows Phone (Silverlight and XNA)

• Unexpected Debugging with WP7 (Simon Jackson)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 22 - Local Database Support, Create DataContext (Kunal Chowdhury)
• • Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 23 - Local Database Support, Configuring Project
  • Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 24 - Local Database Support, CRUD operation with Demo
  • Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial - 25 - Learn about Database Connection String
  • Installation Steps of Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta 2

XNA, DirectX and General GPU Programming

• XNA Game Development, from Beginner to Semi-Pro from the horse's mouth (so to speak) (Coding4Fun)
• Math Primer Series: Vectors III: Affine Spaces, Linear and Affine Combinations (Reza Nourai)

Kinect

• Kinect / iPad hack should help you get Obi-Wan's attention (video) (Engadget)
• Kinecting the Dots: Adding Buttons to your Kinect Application (Michael Crump)
• Kinect Earth Move (Coding4Fun)
• Kinductor (Coding4Fun)
• Intro to the Kinect SDK-Drawing Joints in XNA (Coding4Fun)

Surface

• The Power of PixelSense (Surface Blog)

.NET Micro Framework, Netduino, FEZ, and more

• SkyNet is here (not that one...) Skype + Netduino (Coding4Fun)
• Lawn Sprinkler the Introduction Part 1 (Mike Linnen)

Programming for Kids (and Adults!)

• Kodu Game Labs (fuse.microsoft.com)
• Microsoft Small Basic (SmallBasic.com)

Off-Topic Fun

• Video: solar-powered 3-D printer turns sand into glass objects (SmartPlanet)
• Cool Photos of Levitating Girl (Toxel)
• Wits with Neil Gaiman, Adam Savage, and Gollum: "I Will Survive"‬‏ (YouTube)
• Incredible Paper Sculptures (Toxel)
• Classic - ‪Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris‬‏ (YouTube)
• 15 Unusual and Creative Mugs (Toxel)
• Looking Into the Past (Toxel)