I found this cool site that has a free wizard which helps you build your elevator (15 second) pitch. Here are some of my pitches:
Consultant
My name is Emad Ibrahim and I am a consultant specializing in .net development. I architect, design and create software. I can do it faster and better than the competition. [...]

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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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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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RE: Silverlight 2 Beta 1 with Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview
You can Make your XAML silverlight page fit the whole browser window.

In Blend, select the user control from the objects and timeline

Set the width and height to Auto and the horizontal and vertical alignment to stretch

There will be arrows surrounding the control that lets you [...]

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