John Papa is a well-known Silverlight expert and is a former Sr Technical Evangelist for Microsoft on the Silverlight and Windows 8 teams. John, author of 100+ articles and 10 books, specializes in professional application development with technologies including Windows, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Silverlight, WPF, C#, .NET and SQL Server. He can often be found speaking around the world at keynotes and session for industry conferences such as Build, MIX, PDC, TechEd, VSLive and DevConnections, and while at Microsoft he was the host of the popular show Silverlight TV on Channel 9. Papa is also a columnist for MSDN Magazine (Client Insights), Visual Studio Magazine (Papa’s Perspective) and an author of several training videos with Pluralsight. You can always find John at johnpapa.net or on twitter at @john_papa.