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I was trying to retrieve data from a WCF web service (.svc) using a WebClient HTTP invocation. The service was signed like this:

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Let's share a new bit of secret regarding the dreaded AG_E_PARSER_UNKNOWN_ERROR in Silverlight 3. If you extend UserControl in class X, and you declare X's constructor as private, you'll get AG_E_PARSER_UNKNOWN_ERROR. Of course, you should never do such a foolish thing, but accidents happen, and this error is really difficult to track down, if you don't have a good and easy to install source control system (and use it)...