I am curious to know if anyone out there is forced to use some soft of time tracking software to keep tabs on what it is your are working on? Or if you are not forced do you use something on your own? I have used an excel spreadsheet in the past but I am looking for something better, and I would like to use it across the entire team. Any thoughts and/or ideas will help!

WPF is difficult to learn I agree. I have spent the last 2 years developing a commercial WPF app and I have many many times wished for my winforms. However, change is good. The new stuff is better and we can create "cooler" apps. None of that might perk your interest but think about this: Winforms is not necessary dead but it is an old old man that no one is feeding any food. At some point you will either learn it or learn a new profession. If you start now you will be the one being hired in 2 years and not the winforms guy. I wouldnt have said this 6 months ago, but with VS2010 BUILT using WPF the validation is there, its not going away.

Hahaha, you either work for microsoft or havent usent expression blend. I dont want a third party alternative, I just want a product that FREAKING works. We have developed a full blown enterprise app using WPF (probably a bad idea, but thats not the point) and the three developers that I have using blend constantly complain about it crashing and having a very difficult time getting items to layout correctly. Needless to say we have gotten very used to making changes using just the XAML because it is a lot faster. I am hoping that the new version 2 is a miracle worker.