From [.NET Rocks! Show #488](http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=0488):

> 
> **Richard Campbell:** "In the GDI world we
>  got a document from Microsoft that
>  said you will build your apps in
>  battleship gray and here's now they
>  should look: File goes here and Help
>  goes here, and we all got that as
>  developers. There's no book like that
>  for WPF. There was this idea I've got
>  to find the guy in a black turtleneck
>  and here is his piece of software and
>  you guys go play nice now."
> 
> 
> 

I think Microsoft now wants every Windows application to look like the ugly, difficult-to-use, hardware-bundled crapware we all hate!

Is there no such best-practices document?