>I can't recommend the Murach book highly enough. It comes in both C# and VB flavors.
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>Completely agree. As a teaching tool the Murach books are brilliant. They are always my first read when available. Also agree with Viv about Apress. Amazing quality - the recipes books are particularly valuable.
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>Visual Basic 2008 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (also C#)
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>WPF Recipes in C# 2010: A Problem-Solution Approach (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Approach) - not yet released

VB? Weenie ;-) (Just kidding. You can do about anything in VB you can in C#. The framework is the hard part, not language syntax).

So did you somehow get your hands on a prerelease copy of "WPF Recipes" or are you recommending a book you haven't read? ;-)