I am was working for a very good company and making a good paycheck. The economy is slowing down (aka recession), the housing market sucks, I am losing money on my rental properties, my ARM loans will go up in a year or 2, what should I do? What would a rational person do? What [...]

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The easiest/quickest way to fix a cross domain error is to create a test website to host your Silverlight application.

When you hit F5 to debug the application, it will run the development server and the address bar will say http://localhost:xxx/blahblah.  This will prevent a cross-domain error.
If you try to run it using an test html [...]

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You can use the Clip property on any item to clip its display area. For example if you have this two items rectBlue and rectRed like this

And you want to animate rectRed by sliding it out from the right side, without clipping it would look like this

But if you set the Clip property on [...]

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This drove me crazy for about half an hour… 
I attached this style to a button
<Style x:Key=”NavButtonStyle” TargetType=”Button”>
<Setter Property=”Opacity” Value=”0.8″></Setter>
<Setter Property=”Template”>
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate>
[...]

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I am not sure if this is a bug or by-design but Canvases don’t stretch the way I expect them to - the Grid control seems to resize better.
If you want your Canvas to stretch and Fill its parent, there is an easy way to do this.
1. On initialization, set the Canvas width and height [...]

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