Problems with Semi-colons in web services (a security risk) not allowed in Silverlight 2.0 and here comes browser sockets, ListBoxes, and DataGrids

by Don Burnett.

It always helps to read up on blogs if you want to know the latest problems people are finding out there. Over at IanG's Blog, he has documented a bug in Silverlight 2.0b1, apparently if the service you wish to access has a semicolon in its URI, Silverlight won’t allow your client-side code to access it, no matter what the clientaccesspolicy.xml file says, however you can work around this problem using crossdomain.xml instead.

If you want to go into detail about the workaround for this problem please check out IanG's blog for more details..

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