> They're playing with Expression Blend but it's probably a version or so away from being really usable - one current annoyance is its inability to integrate into source control.

From what I've heard, there are no plans to integrate source control into Blend. The designers will have to use the standalone source control GUIs.

>The WPF downside, from a graphics POV, seems to be that when you need to do something that *isn't* built-in it's actually *more* difficult than using the winforms stuff that was more closely tied to GDI+. So our jury is still out on this. We probably need to investigate the viability of combining WPF and WinForms components.

Be really careful with the. WPF forms/controls don't look like Winforms forms/controls.