I went to a class on Sat. with Kevin McNeish talking bout WPF. He did mention how MS made it easy to separate the layers so you can give the design part to the designers.

And I did see how it can be useful in standard business apps.

>>How far do you think one could take Silverlight without having some kind of graphics designer background? How much time are you spending with it now?
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>I am spending 80% of time in WPF, 10% in WF and what is left on Silverlight.
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>Silverlight is half baked at this time. I have an issue with pushing out my C# dlls to the end user machine and they have all my web service connection code.
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>Because of that I'm waiting for a hopefully better release vs version 1.1
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>now you will need to work with a designer because as a developer your just about guaranteed to create trash for output. But that crappy looking stuff will work :)