Vista Sidebar Gadgets, Silverlight and JSON

ok, so I've posted about JSON in sidebar gadgets before and using Silverlight... when it comes to JSON (in vista side bar gadgets) just say no. at least directly, there are soooo many issues with this that it is unbelievable not to mention I'm running on a 64bit box that shouldn't even run silverlight to begin with the issues are not even consistent across different variations of vista and silverlight... really this is killing me. I found that it is eaiser to just make xml calls which is what I normalled used todo before some one came up with this brillant JSON thing... not that it is a real protocol and all but it is slick, anyway don't use JSON directly in a side bar gadget especially with Silverlight.

That being said, there are a number of ways doing old fashioned xml posting to get what you need and you can just parse and do the old fashioned xml thing and if your extra Industrious or need to write out something and the JSON eval thing solves some problems for you (namely less work) then add some begin and end tags and a nice CDATA section and your good...

But if you find a pratical way todo this let me know (JSON, sidebar gadget, vista, silverlight...), I'd love to see a code sample.