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Below are links to some of the best blogs, articles and other knowledge on the WinFX technology stacks. (Note: They are no particular order)

 General WinFX
 Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon)
 Windows Communication Foundation (Indigo)
 Windows Workflow Foundation

General WinFX

• PDC 05 Slides
• WinFX Developer Center
• WinFX SDK Documentation
• PDC 05 WinFX Class poster

WINDOWS PRESENTATION FOUNDATION (AVALON)

• A Guided Tour of Windows Presentation Foundation by Tim Sneath
• Healthcare demo of Windows Presentation Foundation from Channel9
• North Face Demo from the PDC and white paper on how it was built
• PDC Slidedeck: WPF Beautiful Code, Beautiful Design - Applications your designers can work with
• PDC Slidedeck: Building Applications that look great in Windows Vista
• Great screencast tutorial on Data Binding in WPF
• Meet the Avalon Team video
• Microsoft Design website
• Spell checking in WPF could it be any easier?
• Minesweeper in WPF
• Crazy ideas for Solitaire to evangalise Windows Vista!
• Optical Illusions, XAML and WinFX
• PDC 05 Winner and XAML exporter for Alias (Autodesk) Maya
• History of Sparkle
• Henry Hahn on Optimizing WPF Application Performance
• Windows Vista UX Guidelines
• Karsten Januszewski on Rotation3D
• RHogue 3D Samples
• Chris Anderson talking low-level on Avalon
• Flash in the Can event
• ZAM 3D Modeling Tool
• Great 3D Introduction - 3D for the rest of us
• Squarified Treemaps in XAML, C# using Microsoft Longhorn by Jonathan Hodgson
• PDC artwork through the years
• Expression Graphic, Interactive and Web Designers
• Book: Programming Windows Presentation Foundation by Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths

WINDOWS COMMUNICATION FOUNDATION (INDIGO)

• Introduction to Building Windows Communication Foundation Services by Clemens Vasters
• That Indigo Book
• Indigo Roadshow in the US
• Richard Turner Podcast from the Indigo Roadshow
• Capital Markets Messaging using WCF
• Developing Distributed Services Today
• Book: Programming Indigo by David Pallmann

WINDOWS WORKFLOW FOUNDATION

• Official Microsoft Windows Workflow Resources
• Patrick Verbruggen's resources on WWF
• Mark Schmidt on WWF
• Pros and Cons of WWF for ISVs
• Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation: An Early Look by David Chappell
• Getting Started using WWF by Dino Esposito
• Book: Presentating Windows Workflow Foundation

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