A good web site gives WPF introduction and cool effect at:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Continuum/WPFFXDemo/
More information about them at blog: http://adamkinney.com/blog/370/default.aspx.
http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/default.aspx.
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