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A lot of them have hard coded square small and 2 squares sized large tiles. I am looking for something flexible enough for at least the size ratio to be adjustable to be more flat.
Telerik has a flexible approach (you can choose any row and column span for a tile) but their implementation is either laughably primitive is still too new, especially the drag and drop part.
Devexpress has nice drag and drop, but is stuck doing 1×1 and 1×2 sized tiles.
DevComponents is my favorite. With WPF, you can copy most of the XAML you would otherwise use in a Metro application – so don’t feel that you can’t emulate Metro on the desktop. Many have already done it. Certainly, many more will.
But there are some downsides to Desktop development. Although desktop development is very powerful, and it is, Metro development in Windows 8 has considerable advantages. Having said that, desktop development can take advantage of Visual Studio 11, too.