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>I'm now trying to transition from vb.net and asp.net to c#/Entity Framework/LINQ/Silverlight/RIA on a project. 
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>Silverlight is another giant leap in not ready for primetime development environments (if you want to work with data anyway). Combobox bound to data in a datagrid? Why would someone want that? Stored procedures? In Silverlight? Apparently they aren't BEST PRACTICES anymore since the Domain Service doesn't support them. 
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>Wading through piles and piles of incomplete/incorrect blogs and other posts from drooling geeks around the world trying to show the hacks to get things to work since there is no direct way to do it.
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>What happened to RAD, or developer productivity? What a load of $hit.
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That's a crock of crap. We have an industry leading financial app (priced in the 10's of millions of dollars) in use by the top mutual fund processing companies in the world. Guess what? It's written in Silverlight. so you're assertion that Silverlight is not ready for primtime is just a figment of your non-understanding. silverlight takes 6 months or so to finally grock the change in thinking required. If you can't handle the shift from weak typing to strong typing or the lack of hungarian notation for naming conventions, you'll never grasp the complexities of a language like Silverlight or WPF. Happy coding in html...