>Hey Matt,
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>I'm keen on learning WPF with Expression Blend and VS2008. Have you come across any good books or sites that offer tutorials. I'm looking for something that is up to date. I know there are a few books written that refer to VS2005 add ons and were written before VS2008 was ready. I don't feel like learning from outdated sources. Also, they need to be from a newbie POV.

Visual Studio 2008 WPF experience sucks and is only marginally better than VS 2005, so don't hold off on that behalf.

I'd highly recommend Adam Nathance WPF Book, which is very readable and technically brilliant about talking about the concepts.

It doesn't do much with Blend because design is not the focus of the book, but rather how it works and how to code with WPF. While I think it's important to figure out how to work with a design tool like Blend, it's more of a completely separate track/book you should read for that. Blend won't do a shred of good unless you have a pretty good grasp on how WPF works in the first place.

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