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Silverlight, C#: Cross domain security error

When trying to read an RSS feed within my Silverlight application I was getting a security error exception.

The reason for getting this security error was that by default unauthorized connections will not be allowed to prevent Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, DNS Rebinding attacks and Reverse tunnel attacks other then the host where you want to connect to.

C#, .NET: Current Directory for Windows Service

When calling for the current directory in a Windows Service with the Path.GetCurrentDirectory() you will probably not getting the correct directory but the C:\Windows\System32 directory.