Best WPF Resources?

I’d like to provide a list of the best WPF resources, including real-world apps, free web resources, SDK docs, samples, blogs, etc. If you’ve got something that belongs on that list, I’d love to hear about it. Thanks!

KAXAML (a good XamlPad replacement): http://notstatic.com/archives/49

Place to share XAML Templates: www.xamlshare.com

Of course, there's the mighty-fine http://www.vista.si

Awesome work.

The Expression Blend documentation is a surprisingly well-written mix of conceptual and hands-on in a more quickly accessible format than the good (but enormous) Petzold book. Despite the virtuousness of the code-first approach, you need to start having fun quickly in order to keep up the momentum, and Blend makes WPF _fun_. Even then, it's more work than you'd expect to get through all the concepts in WPF. I started with your book at PDC05 and then the Petzold book, but if I had it to do over again I would recommend to both developers and designers that they start with the Blend documentation and then move on to books covering the code-first angle.

Josh Smith's Guided Tour of WPF series on Code Project looks promising, and he has links to a variety of other resources. There are a few that he calls out as being especially good such as the MSDN data binding overview.

A few good WPF blogs include:

Bryant Likes
http://blogs.sqlxml.org/bryantlikes/

Lee Brimelow
http://thewpfblog.com/

Josh Smith
http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/

Walt Ritscher
http://wpfwonderland.wordpress.com/

Rob Relyea
http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com/

Filipe Fortes
http://fortes.com/

Karen Corby
http://scorbs.com/work/

Mike Harsh
http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/

Robby Ingebretsen
http://www.notstatic.com/

Tim Sneath
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/

Karsten Januszewski
http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/

WPF SDK blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsdk/

As far as samples and source code, I almost forgot the very cool samples in Blend Beta 1, the thirteen23 stuff at http://www.thirteen23.com/labs.html and http://www.thirteen23.com/work.html, and WPF.JoshSmith at http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/WPFJoshSmith.asp

Reflector with the BAML disassembler add-in is a must for learning by example.

Adam Nathan's Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed, published by SAMS.

I agree with Orans list of bloggers (thanks Oran for the endorsement of my wpfwonderland.wordpress.com site).

Tim Sneath has a long list of WPF bloggers at
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/articles/475132.aspx

Thanks! Great list, guys. Keep 'em coming!

I built myself a bookmark manager a while ago in the hopes that other would use it, but I'm the only [quite happy] user. Here are some of my links: http://luke.breuer.com/webmark/?cmd=wpf . If nobody is planning on making something more sophisticated than webmark, I'd be glad to enter links below into it. I am about to dig deeply into WPF, performing magic such as writing XAML on the fly using semi-intelligent algorithms which parse the fields in a particular query and figure out how to display the results to the user. :-D I plan on documenting my progress extensively, as both a service to the community and a resource for myself and coworkers.

Oh yeah, there's also http://www.contentpresenter.com/, which is aimed more at designers than devs, but is still quite useful.

I hope this is what you have in mind, if not please feel free to delete. Alex Horovitz and I are working on a programmer's overview of .NET 3 that includes a serious introduction to XAML and WPF: Programming .NET 3 which is now in "Rough Cuts" on the O'Reilly site. We'll be updating it regularly until publication (late spring/early summer?).

Thanks.

-Jesse Liberty
http://www.jliberty.com

Lester's blog at blogs.msdn.com\llobo is a nice blog on WPF covering the entire gamut
Also http://wpf-resources.com is a sweet spot for a whole list of WPF resources

Nice site!