For the past 10 months my working life has been consumed by implementing functionality in and around ArcGIS Runtime for .NET. Our product does much more than just be a front end for a map but having that map nod working against the API has been a big part of what we have been doing.
I have had to remain fairly tight lipped on what we have been doing as we signed a NDA bit know that runtime for .net has been released I can start to talk about things more.
For the past year or so know it is plainly evident that Esri has upped their game. I always liked what the Silverlight/WPF/.NET team have been doing but the work that has been put into the core c++ runtime is impressive.
Over the course of the next few months I will blog on all things runtime so watch this space.