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.

XAML, WPF, and Silverlight Desktop General

• C#er : IMage: Silverlight 5 Incompatibility: Play by the Rules (Jeremy Likness)
• Invisible pixels are just as clickable as real pixels! (David Anson)
• WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 10 - XAML Parser Differences (Morten Nielsen)
• WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 11 - Silverlight on Phone vs. Browser (Morten Nielsen)

WCF RIA Services

• Unit Testing a WCF RIA DomainService: Part 1, The IDomainServiceFactory (Kyle McClellan)
• • Part 2 the Repository Pattern, Part 3 the DomainServiceTestHost

XNA, DirectX, and General Client GPU Programming

• XNA Light Pre-Pass: culling, blending and particles (J. Coluna)

XAML and XNA on the Windows Phone

• XNA to SilverXNA-Part 1 an Overview (Dark Genesis)
• Fetching Picasa Images through RSS in WP7 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Working with Default FontSize in Windows Phone 7 Applications (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit - August 2011 (7.1 SDK) Released (Kunal Chowdhury)

Surface

• Social Stream for Microsoft Surface 2.0 posted (Surface Blog)
• World meet Patty, Patty say "Hello World" (Surface Blog)

Kinect

• Flight Kintroller (Coding4Fun)
• The 3D Tech Behind Virtual Production using Kinect (KinectHacks)
• Kinect to transform video training/podcasting/teleconferencing? (Greg Duncan)

.NET Micro Framework, Netduino, FEZ, .NET Gadgeteer, etc.

• Internet sync'd SNTP clock / Weather on a VFD  (Netduino Forums)

General Electronics and Robotics

• Solder : Time Watch Kit (SparkFun)
• Swarmanoid, the movie (YouTube)
• How to make your first robot (Let's Make Robots)

Off-Topic Fun

• What if Dr. Seuss Created 'Star Wars'? (Comics Alliance)
• Happy birthday PC! (MOS6502)
• The most depressing moments in Disney movies (Guyism)
• Geek: T-Shirts & Hoodies (RedBubble)
• Each Grain of Sand a Tiny Work of Art | Earth Science (Discover Magazine)
• TARDIS MAME Console (asciimation)
• • Part 2: the console
• Incredible Origami Sculptures (Toxel)
• IBM's "neurosynaptic" chips are the closest thing to a synthetic brain yet (io9)
• Air Swimmers (Check out the remote control flying shark)
• CD Landscape (Hold It)
• Nyan Cat Meets Metal (YouTube)