The September preview of Expression Blend 2 has been released. Here are the new features:

Download it here and get to work on those Silverlight applications.

Infragistics has released their WPF grid to the general public.

[...] the Express Grid rises up again and we were faced with the question of what Product Management plans to do with it.  And the end result, is that we've decided to give it away for free to everyone and recompile/test it with the latest hotfix already installed. 

You can download it here.

The Project Astoria September 2007 CTP has been released. It's a refresh of the May CTP, but it works with Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2.

The Astoria September 2007 CTP is now available for download. This CTP is for the most part a refresh of the May CTP bits recompiled so they run with Visual Studio 2008/Entity Framework Beta 2. We did tweak here or there, but no new features were added.

You can download it here.