Yesterday, I started looking at WPF, WinFX, XAML, etc.  I
started with Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths: Programming Windows
Presentation Foundation, but that book was published in
September, so it's way out of date. It's a pretty decent read
anyway, and I look forward to the release edition, but don't
actually try the examples with the Feb CTP, they are from an
alternate universe, very much like our world, but with goatees
(if you're going to try anyway, check out the Change Notes).
No, on the bleeding edge, books are so six months ago. Much
better to hit the web. But, google is littered with docs and
workarounds from past versions. Only very specific searches are
likely to return relevant hits.  If books are a fading moment in
time, the web is all of those moments at once, all treated
equally.  Better to stick with official sources. The official
SDK docs are here, and they are tracking the actual released
code pretty well. The MS WinFX site has some pretty well
documented labs that are only slightly out of da