I can put a pushpin in the center of each Polygon to achieve a clickable area, but this is an additional step that I would prefer not to do.
Yes, but it’s some kind of pain. Steps:
1.) joins the mouscick event inside VEMap 2.) determine whether the muscle was in the area of your polygon or on form 3.) stop transmitting the event to the map object itself.
The mouse patch: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/scripting/Use_of_VEMap.aspx#heading0012 is a decent primer, although if you need specific code, I can do it for you too.
, true funciton: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb412543.aspx