Following the great work Imran Shaik on creating world map in XAML (http://silverlight2.blogspot.com/2007/12/silverlight-world-map.html), I decided to improve it a bit:

• Every country is highlighted on mouse hover/out and can be selected
• All these properties can be customised from single style definitions in XAML and C# code behind
• Labels are added for each continent; these can potentially select all countries within certain continent
• Tooltips are added for countries within South America just for the demo purposes

The entire Visual Studio 2008 Silverlight 3 project can be downloaded from: 
http://www.sgolubev.com/share/WorldMapInXaml/WorldMapInXaml.zip (~6Mb)

You will find a self-contained map user control which you can reuse in your projects. Please respect copyright rules specified on the Imran’s site. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence.

Hope you find this useful!

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The Slice designed in Silverlight is using Twitter and Flickr services, and is hosted on Windows Azure cloud computing platform. 
 
Any feedback is more than welcome! Thank you to Giorgio Sardo for his support during the project.