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Making the leap to QueryOver

So, if you are using the ActiveRecord/NHibernate stack I highly recommend switching to query over. The syntax is cleaner and it's type-safe. Here is an example of a criterion based query: Here is an example of the same query in QueryOver: Unlike the Linq language for Nhibernate QueryOver is just a translation layer for Criterion.

Silverlight: Getting your Listbox Items to stretch

I was having some trouble getting my ListBox items to stretch across the entire ListBox. I did not want to get into the game of dropping into code to fix layout issues. Here is what I had to do. This first attempt did not work: I had assumed that the HorizontalContentAlignment attribute would do the trick. For most controls it does. I was wrong. Here is what I finally had to do: Notice the addition of the container style. As far as I can tell this is a bug. I found the original answer here .