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.

As is typically the case during summer, the work-related posts are thin while the fun stuff rocks on. Enjoy your vacations, folks :)

XAML, WPF, and Silverlight Desktop General

• Internals of Dependency Property in WPF (Abhishek Sur)
• How to Communicate between two Local Silverlight Applications (Kunal Chowdhury)

XNA, DirectX and General Client GPU Programming

• Dxt Conversion Content Pipeline Extension Sample (Bob Taco Industries)

XAML and XNA on the Windows Phone

• QR code scanning on Windows Phone 7.5 using ZXlib (Jonas Folleso)
• My eBook and articles series on OData for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 is complete (Michael Crump)

Visual Studio 2010 and More

• Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is Available Today (Jason Zander)

.NET Micro Framework (Netduino, FEZ, and more)

• The Mantis is here... (which is an off-roading, Netduino, remote controlled, with Cam, robocar) (Coding4Fun/Channel9)
• Build a Netduino-powered Game Console (Fabien Royer)

General Electronics, Synthesis, and Robotics

• Introducing the MeeBlip se (MeeBlip)
• udrones: autonomous flying drones. Please don't add missiles and IR cameras (udrones)

Commodore 64!

• A brief history of GEOS (MOS6502)
• • (I wrote my high school and college papers on GEOS 128. I also ran a version on my first 286)
• Building robots with the C64 (MOS6502)

Off-Topic fun

• Space Infographics (Space.com)
• First Asteroid Companion of Earth Discovered at Last (Yahoo News)
• Energy absorbing fairing, or Mad Max's dream bike? (Craigvetter.com)
• Insane dirt bike riding (Win!)
• Forty Fords (Harrison Ford's 40 movies done as icons) (National Post)
• Bat-Graph WIN (Win!)
• Companies Swapped Logos (Toxel)
• Marvel facts infographic
• Veggie Market on railroad tracks (Wimp)