Understanding relationship between WPF and Expression Blend

I am the Creative Director/Designer/Front End guy for a software company. We are redoing our software for our next release in WPF instead of Windows Forms. I have been tasked with designing the GUI portion of it. Here is where I'm stuck at. While there are tons of tutorials out there on Blend, they all relate to Silverlight. all of Microsoft's "toolbox" tutorials center around either Sketchflow or Silverlight. We don't utilize Silverlight, and I only need to start learning Blend as it pertains to GUI design/implementation - esp. importing art from Photoshop/Illustrator (I already have the Illustrator XAML plug in).

Can anyone point me in the right direction for some good tutorials? Where 开发者_Go百科did other GUI designers start using Blend?

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If you really want to know the relationship of WPF and Expression Blend, maybe you should ask the relationship of Developer and Designer aspects of WPF. Expression Blend is simply a designer that generates XAML (although it can be used to code in the code behind .cs or .vb).

Expression Blend can open the same csproj or vbproj file, as the same as VS 2008 or VS 2010 project file.

For more information about how Expression Blend and VS 2008/2010 WPF Editor collaborate, please visit: http://windowsclient.net/wpf/white-papers/thenewiteration.aspx

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I think the official Expression Blend Training page offers some good video tutorials