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Finding out, for whatever reason, Microsoft decided not to include IdnMapping in the Silverlight Client runtime and spending 3 hours building a filthy hack via the RIA Service to do something that normally takes one line of code.
Then realising you still have to maintain a Silverlight project and cry some more.

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  • 0
    Feel your pain. Administrating a vendors' Silverlight based product. Although they will be migrating off it - someday.
  • 1
    Did they hook you with the "we're migrating soon" line? You poor, naive fool.
  • 0
    Before Silverlight got the axe I was offered a job with a Silverlight shop. Being a big web standards guy I was against it. Being out of work I considered it. I am so glad I didn't accept it or I know I would be in the same boat as you guys.
  • 0
    @kwilliams so far 'soon' has been 14 months'. I am not the project owner so can't boot them
    - yet.
  • 1
    @Jumpshot44 so they work on the Blizzard Entertainment timescale. Soon (TM).
  • 0
    ha! I have to work in Lightswitch trust me it's just as bad
  • 0
    @cybercuban this is a Lightswitch project, but not the new HTML5 based one.
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