Just like Josh Smith I was looking around for some pre-rolled themes for WPF, and wondered why there was so little activity in this area. I would have thought the ability to take a professional looking UI (adjusted to match an organization's in-house style) would be a popular approach for building new business applications.

For a while now I’ve wanted to build a small application that would take a set of images and generate a set of previews, thumbnails and metadata xml ‘sidecar’ files that I could upload to my blog (I have a gallery viewing ASP.Net control that reads the directory structure and displays the gallery - and yes I have rendered image on the fly using an HTTP handler and GDI.Net in the past – but I prefer to upload my photo albums as pre-generated packages).  I figured this was a chance to crack the covers of my WPF book and build my first small WPF application.  I got there in the end – and I lea