Threading and learning a new language / platform can be a challenge, but it all worked out well we think.

We discovered a few things with Silverlight and C# pretty much the hard way; well worth it though.

First, it was the problem of getting information / data into and outof a thread without getting some freakin' error; worse yet hang and do nothing.

Next we found that when we got the threading working, it was working so fast that updating the Silverlight UI components was not happening.

Once again, it gave the appearance of a hang, but it wasn't... sheees.

Silverlight updates its UI at a refresh rate of about 60 fps (frames per second) and no amount of adjustment would help that; in addition, it could not be made fast enough for the thread was working far beyond what could be possible.

Anyway, a few good things did come from this.

We have a very, very fast means of processing data.

We learned a lot about the Silverlight platform.

We expanded our programming skills into the C# realm.