Yes. But as you learn more about WPF, you'll find Templates give you lots of power.
>Re: Productivity - I am just at the beginnings of WPF but the first thing that struck me about controls defined in XAML was "My God those are just big 'ol chunks of text that completely define a control and can be inserted anyplace and cut and pasted and stored and snippet/field subsitututed and .... "
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer