I needed to use a different connection string for database access, depending on what host was serving my Silverlight application. Here's how to do it:
For VB:
Imports System.Windows.Browser
Dim url As String = HtmlPage.Document.DocumentUri.ToString()
For C#:
using System.Windows.Browser;
string url = HtmlPage.Document.DocumentUri.ToString();
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