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@LonokeProgrammer: There's a number of them, some that I see mentioned allot;

• SharpDx, http://code.google.com/p/sharpdx/ 
• SlimDx, http://slimdx.org/

@Georg Graf: Nice! Thanks for the update (and the source

@vijaya malla: Works fine for me... Both Smooth and Progressive (Win8, x64).

Another tip on the Blend for Visual Studio thing (for people like me who've been looking for it since the Update 2 install). This is obvious in hindsight, but it's not part of Visual Studio the IDE, i.e. you don't access from within Visual Studio. It's a separate app, with it's own Start Screen/Menu icon, etc.

@naasking: No, thank you!

@mducrocq68: Yes, this is a great series to learn C#.

That said, there's a number of other great that are also web focused. You can see them all here, Channel 9 Content for Beginners

@Marcel: Yep, you'll need Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop (not web).

Bob, mentions it above;

IMPORTANT UPDATE:  Before you watch this lesson, please make sure you have watched this video to learn about changes to Visual Studio since this series was originally recorded.) 

In that Important Update post he also provides a link to Download Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop

@natelawrence: Correct, Clint misspoke... It's currently Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7. No Windows Phone 8 at this time...

@BuddyP: Best bet would be to click through and comment directly on his post. That way he's much more likely to be able to answer your question...

@JohnLudlow: Get out of my head...