From Silverlight to Metro: Listing 1.

The DiggStory class.

using System;
namespace DiggSample

{

  public class DiggStory

  {

    public int     Id          { get; set; }

    public string  Title       { get; set; }

    public string  Description { get; set; }

    public int     NumDiggs    { get; set; }

    public Uri     HrefLink    { get; set; }

    public string  ThumbNail   { get; set; }

    public string  UserName    { get; set; }

  }

}

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