I'm a C#/Windows Forms programmer with more than 5 years experience. I've been investigating WPF using the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) design pattern. I have searched the Internet for tutorials. I have even watched the entirety of Jason Dolinger's awesome video. Although I have found many, I have not found one that takes me from start to finish. What I really want is a tutorial that doesn't assume any previous WPF knowledge.
What are your favorite WPF-MVVM tutorials that helped you to learn?
Your question really seems to be asking 2 questions:
Some of these resources may be duplicated in previous answers...
Tutorials on WPF
A Guided Tour of WPF by Josh Smith
I wrote a series of introductory WPF articles on The Code Project. The goal of those articles is to bring someone with no WPF experience up-to-speed enough so that (s)he can fully understand how the series’ demo application works.
Bea Stollnitz (link is to her archives) has a number of great articles on WPF.
WPF: A Beginner's Guide - Part 1 of n by Sacha Barber
MVVM Tutorials
WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern by Josh Smith (duplicate link already provided by Yacoder)
Jason Dolinger's presentation on the Model-View-ViewModel (link to video embedded in article)
Dan Crevier's DataModel-View-ViewModel pattern series (similar to MVVM)
Composite WPF (Prism) Resources
Though not exactly what you asked, it is the natural progression with WPF and MVVM.
I really liked these articles:
He really dumbs down the concept in a humorous way. Worth reading.
I read Josh Smith's article and found it very difficult. Once understood, I wrote a very simple one that should get you really started on it. Get it here.
My blog has a complete series of tutorial starting from scratch for WPF MVVM and WPF Prism. Have a look here: http://blog.raffaeu.com/archive/2009/06/03/wpf-and-vmmv-tutorial-01-introduction.aspx
I have written an application using WPF, Prism and MVVM to simulate hiring a cab, you can read about it on my blog, download the source here and play with it.
