C# – MVVM: Tutorial from start to finish

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I'm a C#/Windows Forms programmer with more than 5 years experience. I've been investigating WPF using the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) design pattern. I have searched the Internet for tutorials. I have even watched the entirety of Jason Dolinger's awesome video. Although I have found many, I have not found one that takes me from start to finish. What I really want is a tutorial that doesn't assume any previous WPF knowledge.

What are your favorite WPF-MVVM tutorials that helped you to learn?

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Your question really seems to be asking 2 questions:

Where are some good tutorials on WPF, assuming I have no previous WPF experience?
Where are some good tutorials on learning MVVM?

Some of these resources may be duplicated in previous answers...

Tutorials on WPF

A Guided Tour of WPF by Josh Smith

I wrote a series of introductory WPF articles on The Code Project. The goal of those articles is to bring someone with no WPF experience up-to-speed enough so that (s)he can fully understand how the series’ demo application works.
Bea Stollnitz (link is to her archives) has a number of great articles on WPF.
WPF: A Beginner's Guide - Part 1 of n by Sacha Barber
WindowsClient.net WPF Training Videos

MVVM Tutorials

WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern by Josh Smith (duplicate link already provided by Yacoder)
Jason Dolinger's presentation on the Model-View-ViewModel (link to video embedded in article)
Dan Crevier's DataModel-View-ViewModel pattern series (similar to MVVM)

Composite WPF (Prism) Resources
Though not exactly what you asked, it is the natural progression with WPF and MVVM.

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