So what of WPF?

I am a big DevExpress Fan. They have done some great things with their latest 2009 release. On of the most interesting was an issue that occurred with the original drop, but the company kept those interested in what was going on up to date using twitter.

This is not the subject today however. DevExpress are making a big push into the WPF area with versions of their controls specifically for WPF. I kind of get WPF, or at least I want to, but I can't help get the idea from what I have done with it so far, I still need to know far more XAML than I would prefer to. I want to be kept away from the various markup languages, no matter how verbose they may be.

Is the world ready for WPF and what it brings and are there any real applications out there using it properly and not just using it because its there. I had a big temptation this weekend to use the DevExpress DXCarousel control for part of an application I have been building for some time. It is a neat control, but it would look out of place in my application, which is a database application, because WPF seems to be such a revolutionary technology that unless all your app is WPF, none of it should be.

Am I reading this right? Or has the pleasant April Scottish Sunshine got to me?