>>I have followed this discussion since the beginning and, imo, the whole point of wpf is to separate the ui from presentation. You need 0 degree of graphics design experience to use wpf. You can drop a regular ugly old button anywhere on the form, code the logic and when done, anyone with graphics experience can take the xaml and make the button look beautiful, position it where they want, and when done, the code behind will still work because they don't touch the code when doing the graphics work. This is the whole philosophy behind wpf and a good one.
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>Thanks for the info. What is your opinion about the learning curve and the demand for WPF skills?

the learning curve is fairly steep, because it is a complete paradigm shift from standard winforms development. I think the need is only going to grow as it moves forward and gains traction. WinForms will be deprecated eventually, so you are going to be forced into developing with it if you are still young enough to be developing in 10-15 years...

For me, I'll be long gone by then, but its fun in the meantime.