One of the things I wanted in ImageWind.Net before releasing it in beta was some basic analytics baked in. I wanted to try and use Google Analytics and I wanted to do more than just track page views - something which tells us little in a Silverlight application.

Google Analytics has support for event tracking, what that means is that instead of just tracking how many hits your site gets, you can track when users take certain actions or when events occur in your application. I did a quick search of the web and was happy to find Silverlight Analytics on CodePlex - a library which makes event tracking in Silverlight with Google Analytics easy. The Silverlight Analytics library does more than just event tracking - but that's what I am focusing on here.

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