Petzoldian-style Development on the road to Avalon Nirvana. Sigh!
Avalon is very promising. No doubt about that. I can very well imagine how Visual Studio "Orcas" (the one to follow Whidbey) will add fantastic designers for creating stunning Avalon UIs. However, today, my first steps with XAML remind me very much of my first little baby steps exploring the Win16 API back in 1990 using Charles Petzold's Windows Programming book. Of course, it's all on a vastly elevated level and some of the controls are stunningly powerful, but...