Real World Experiences with Silverlight: This presentation provides a behind-the-scenes look at several Silverlight 1.1 applications developed for the ReMIX07 conference in Boston, including an online conference agenda and a stock portfolio manager. Some of the issues addressed include developer/designer collaboration, data access, web service usage, and custom control implementation.

John Juback is the Chief Technology Evangelist for ComponentOne, the leading provider of components for the Microsoft .NET platform. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, John has been creating software components since the early days of Visual Basic, and was one of the original developers of the award-winning True DBGrid control. In addition to his roles as developer, author, and evangelist, John is a key member of the R&D team responsible for the next generation of components for emerging platforms such as Silverlight.