Just updated my Virtual Earth application, pretty similar on the surface but now takes advantage of cross-domain networking, skinned controls and the start of an add-in model.

Check it out.

The code is definitely much cleaner now, gone are most of the JSON calls (still have to hack the location search).

I'll go into depth on it later, but for now the source is here.

Silverlight 2 is finally out in the open!

I've been silent for a bit too long because I've been having too much fun on Silverlight 2 projects and haven't been doing anything in public bits. The downside of being on the inside. I think the other downside is that I probably spent half of my time porting random apps to the latest build-of-the-day. I think I'm a pro at porting samples now :)

The thing that's been really keeping me busy lately has been Expression Blend 2.5 March Preview, which has also gone public today. It was a massive effort from everyone on the team to get the tool to be able to talk to both platforms and everyone is absolutely thrilled by the results. Definitely suggest giving it a spin!

I'll be following up with updated samples as well as some new ones. Stay tuned!