I have been playing with .NET for more than 4 years, mostly Windows Forms applications. Binding is not something unknown and I try to use good practice in all my C# applications. For the past 1 month, I have been learning WPF for the job and I have to admit that it's VERY powerful but a lot harder to achieve things. You can do a lot more and achieve some cool designs with less effort but only once you know how it really works and it's hard because it's huge.
More, debugging is harder - that makes the learning more slow too. The problem I think is the IDE of Visual Studio that doesn't help much in the XAML and you rapidly miss some features of IntelliSense of C# when doing binding or other stuff that now is in a XML tag. I like it but yes, the learning curve is not smooth.
