John Papa John Papa
John Papa, Senior .NET Consultant at ASPSOFT, is a Microsoft MVP [C#], MCSD.NET, and an author of several data access technology books. John has over 10 years' experience in developing Microsoft technologies as an architect, consultant, and a trainer. He is the author of the Data Points column in MSDN Magazine and can often be found speaking at user groups, MSDN Web Casts, and industry conferences such as VSLive and DevConnections. John is a baseball fanatic who spends most of his summer nights rooting for the Yankees with his family and his faithful dog, Kadi. You can contact John at johnpapa.net.
His new book Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 has recently been published.

Using Silverlight to Build a Guitar Chord Calculator
by John Papa | 12 March 2009 |  6 comments |
Silverlight is so versatile that it is easy to move beyond conventional browser-based applications and even write games. John Papa celebrates the launch of his new book by bringing you a simple Silverlight guitar Chord Calculator to demonstrate features of... Read more...
Data and Silverlight 2: Data Binding
by John Papa | 05 June 2008 |  2 comments |
Silverlight 2 is far more versatile than Silverlight 1. It can handle data-sources with some subtlety. John Papa tackles the whole subject of data-binding with Silverlight. This article is a partial excerpt from John Papa's upcoming book Data Access with Silverlight... Read more...
.NET 3.5 Language Enhancements
by John Papa | 25 July 2007 |  55 comments |
LINQ may be getting the most attention in the forthcoming .NET 3.5, but there are also several new language features that add functionality and make life easier for the programmer. John Papa explains more... Read more...
Gathering RSS Feeds using Visual Studio and RSS.NET
by John Papa | 04 May 2007 |  10 comments |
If you would like to learn how to build and customize your very own Windows service to retrieve posts from multiple RSS feeds, and then store those posts in a SQL Server database, let John Papa guide you through his tutorial. Read more...
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