Valuable Learnings

I love working on XAML/Silverlight and I don't face any issues most of the times. But when I am in trouble, I don't find any clue on how to come out of that. Recently, I am working on a Silverlight application and got a requirement to apply background color for Items which contains Collapsible Controls. To Understand this properly, I have a list of CheckBoxes with TextBox Controls and the TextBox should only be visible on CheckBox Check. To accomplish this, I simply Binded the Visibility of TextBox with IsChecked Property and thats working like charm. The problem is when I apply BackgroundColor to those Items. If I apply a BackgroundColor to ListItem in Template, It is taking only till CheckBox content, if there is no TextBox (i.e., CheckBox is Unchecked). Now I came to know the importance of Hidden in the Visibility Values. But soon I found that its not supported in Silverlight. The only work around for this is to manipulate Opacity of the TextBox instead of Visibility.