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

• Tasks are in Silverlight (Danny Shih)
• Silverlight 5 RC Released - Using PInvoke (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight 5 RC - Using the Task Parallel Library (TPL) (Jeremy Likness)
• Prism-fy the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) (Brian Lagunas)
• Okay WinForm/WPF Dialogs with Ookii.Dialogs (Greg Duncan)
• What's New in Silverlight 5 RC - Elevated Trust Settings for Out-of-Browser and In-Browser (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using PInvoke in SL5 to show MessageBox (Lee ?)
• WPF's DataGridCheckBoxColumn ElementStyle uses a wrong default value (Jonathan Antoine)
• Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 RC (Michael Crump)

WCF RIA Services

• WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2 RC (Jeff Handley)
• Business Application Project Login / Registration Disables Everything (Jeff Handley)

XNA, DirectX, and General Client GPU Programming

• Crepuscular Rays Post Process - RandomChaos - XNA UK User Group (XNA UK)
• • So That's what that effect is called!
• Math Primer Series: Matrices I: Introduction and Basics Operations (Reza Nourai)

NUI (Kinect, Surface, more)

• Nsquared's Seamless Computing, Surface + Kinect + Slate + Phone = amazing interface (Engadget)
• 3D Head Tracking with Kinect SDK & WPF (Coding4Fun)
• Programming a Kinect Bounding Box (Coding4Fun)
• Hybrid Controls (Xbox Pad + Kinect) Game (KinectHacks)
• New York Times uses Microsoft Surface to imagine countertop reading experience (Surface Blog)

.NET Micro Framework (Netduino, Fez, Gadgeteer and more)

• NETMF Version 4.2 Release Candidate 2 (Colin Miller)
• Controlling a Brushless Motor with NETMF (Software and Sawdust)
• slickstreamer: IoT: Real time control of stepper motor with web browser (Marcus Olsson)
• Does programming your lawn sprinkler seem so much harder than it should be? Here's a Netduino/Azure/WP7 solution for you (Coding4Fun)

General Electronics and Robotics

• nerdDoro Parallax Spinneret Design Contest Entry - Review or Discard at Will - Rodaw (Jeff Albrecht)
• Defusable Alarm Clock is Dy-No-Mite (Make)

Off-Topic Fun

• Tempest Milky Way (Vimeo)
• Making the R2D2 Helmet (Clever Girl)