The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WinRT XAML, WPF, Silverlight, Visual C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows 7, Windows Phone, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services 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.

With Build and the Maker Faire going on, I decided to give this series a rest for a couple weeks. Phew! That was a mistake. Just look at how busy everyone has been. Also note that I've started breaking the Netduino, Electronics, Robotics, Synthesizer and similar content into a new roundup series.

Windows 8 General

• Welcome to Windows 8 - The Developer Preview (Steven Sinofsky)
• Running Windows 8 Developer Preview in a virtual environment (Sue Bohn, David Hicks, Cornel Lupu)
• C#er : IMage: Windows 8: What you Need to Know (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight Developers Have the Smoothest Road to Metro (Brian Noyes)
• What's new in the Windows Dev Center? (Part 1) (Gus Class)

XAML Technologies (Silverlight, WPF, WinRT)

• XAML Sessions at BUILD (Tim Heuer)
• WPF 4.5 is here : check out the new features ! (Jonathan Antoine)
• Jonathan Antoine's 7 Part Series on WPF 4.5:
• • WPF 4.5 - Part 1 : Asynchronous data validation
  • WPF 4.5 - Part 2 : Improved WeakEventManager 
  • WPF 4.5 - Part 3 : New methods of the Dispatcher
  • WPF 4.5 - Part 4 : the new Binding's 'Delay' property
  • WPF 4.5 - Part 5 : the new BindingExpression information
  • WPF 4.5 - Part 6 : Markup Extensions for Events
  • WPF 4.5 - Part 7 : Accessing collections on non-UI Threads
• WPF 4.5′s MarkupExtension : Invoke a method on the ViewModel / DataContext when an event is raised. (Jonathan Antoine)
• Dependency Properties - Don't use Reference Types for Defaults (Nathan Allen-Wagner)
• XAML Finance - a cross-platform WPF, Silverlight, WP7 application (Colin Eberhardt)
• HelloTiles - A Simple C# Xaml Application for WinRT/Windows8 to demonstrate Metro Tile Updates (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• What's New in Silverlight 5 RC - Invoking "Run" Dialog from In-Browser Silverlight Application (Kunal Chowdhury)
• What's New in Silverlight 5 RC - Create Directory from Browser using PInvoke (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Finding Key State using PInvoke in SL5 RC (Lee's Corner)
• Yet another Beeping P/Invoke Demo (SL5 RC) (Michael Crump)
• Morten Nielsen's WinRT vs. Silverlight series
• • WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 0
  • WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 1 - XML Namespace
  • WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 2 - Code Namespace
  • WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 3 - Dependency Properties
  • WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 4 - Dispatcher
  • WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 5 - Defining default style template
• Physics Helper XAML for Metro WinRT (Any Beaulieu)
• TweetSearch - A Cross platform Metro UI WinRT and Silverlight Application (Colin Eberhardt)

DirectX Technologies (DirectX, XNA, General GPU Programming)

• Blender 3D, XNA and a little bone bending (Coding4Fun)
• XNA to SilverXNA-part 6 Adding a bit of Flash (Dark Genesis)
• XNA to SilverXNA-part 7 Breaking the mould (Dark Genesis)
• Crepuscular (God) Rays and Web UI Sample (Random Chaos)

NUI (Kinect, Surface, More)

• Using the Kinect in the classroom (Coding4Fun)
• Windows 8 on Microsoft Surface 1.0 (video) (Josh Blake)
• 3D scan with Kinect (Dmitry Burov)

Visual Studio and .NET General

• BUILDing the Future with Visual Studio (Soma)
• Announcing Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Jason Zander)
• Comparing Versions of a .NET Framework DLL Using NDepend (Arik Poznanski)

Off-Topic Fun

• Vi Hart: Lots of videos (Noises, Origami Proof of Pythagorean Theorem and more) (Vi Hart)
• Star Blazers Live Action (1/10) - YouTube (Watch all 10 parts while it's still there. It's awesome)
• My "Somebody To Love" audition (YouTube)
• Watch sculptures : Moments in time (YouTube)
• Superb Lyrebird imitating construction work - Adelaide Zoo (YouTube)
• What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth - Fluid version (YouTube)
• Herbie Hancock - Rock It LIVE (YouTube)