@jmferris, thanks for your input. Your suggestion works great for VB, unforetunately I am using C# and C# does not support importing namespaces. The C# solution is not as clean but it doable. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.linq.xnamespace.aspx.

thanks again.

@Jemm - thanks that is handy :D

aside from the tasteless name calling...agree completely

@isuttle and that is why everyone that says Silverlight will just die out is dreaming. It is big int he .Net community and that is not a small thing to dismiss lightly!