John Papa

About John

John Papa is a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft (formerly a Microsoft Silverlight MVP, INETA speaker, and member of the WPF and Silverlight Insiders). John specializes in professional application development with Microsoft technologies including Silverlight, WPF, C#, .NET ,and SQL Server. John has written over 70 articles and authored 9 books including his latest book, Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2 by O'Reilly Media.

He can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as MIX, PDC, VSLive, and DevConnections, speaking at user groups around the country, and viewed on MSDN webcasts or Silverlight TV. John also spearheaded the 1st annual Silverlight MIXer, a gathering of some of the most influential members of the Silverlight community for a great night at MIX09. You can always find John at johnpapa.net.

Stuff John recommends you check out

• John's blog
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• Download Silverlight 4
• Silverlight 4 - A guide to the new features
• Silverlight 4 - "How Do I?" videos
• Silverlight Blogs
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