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The answer to our fourth question - 'What is the max. file size for app updates for over the air (OTA) installations?' – was first given by Rodney Willis (@HotRodW ). Our short talk with Rodney will introduce him and his experience with WP7 to SilverlightShow community.

Q. Rodney – congratulations for becoming the fourth winner in SilverlightShow WP7 Quiz! Please introduce yourself to the community at SilverlightShow - who are you, your professional background, projects you are currently working on, interests, blog or anything else you’d like to mention?

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Gill Cleeren, who is Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for ASP.NET, has recently delivered a really successful webinar on Data Binding for SilverlightShow.

Following the active participation of attendees in the Q&A session, and the positive feedback received after the webinar, we invited Gill to deliver more webinars for SilverlightShow in October this year.

In this interview we talk to Gill on why the last webinar was such a success, and what we should expect from his next webinars.

Q. Gill - congratulations for delivering a highly successful webinar for SilverlightShow on August 19th! We had a really good number of live attendees, and an even bigger number of downloads of the webinar recording.

While on campus in May, I met with the WCF RIA Services team at Microsoft. We discussed both the awesome parts and the difficult parts of the recent product release.

Microsoft WCF RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes, and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication, and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier.

It’s great to be here today and have a chance to ask these Microsoft gurus some Silverlight questions. I will be asking a mixed bag of questions over the next 2 hours so hopefully there will be some interesting content for everybody.

I will post each question as a reply to this thread allowing Tim Heuer and Mike Taulty to post their answers as separate responses, so keep checking back over the next 2 hours

Just before I left the Silverlight Team, I managed to convince Laurence to give me an adhoc video interview in my office regarding his latest book titled “Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 3”.

This interview is the first one from our 'Featured Author' interview series. We'll be presenting you the major contributors to the article content on SilverlightShow - Silverlight MVPs, bloggers and enthusiasts willing to share their experience and knowledge with the rest of us.

In this interview we'll be talking to Andrea Boschin - a Silverlight MVP with over eleven years of experience in IT, and a frequent speaker at Silverlight events in his country.

Q. Andrea - please briefly introduce yourself, and your experience with Silverlight.

A. I’m a guy 41 years old from Italy and currently I live and work in Treviso, a beautiful town near Venice. I started to work in the IT relatively late after doing some various jobs like graphic designer and school teacher. Finally I started to work into the web and learned by myself to program in VB and ASP and later in C# and ASP.NET. Since the start of my work, I’ve found I like to learn new technologies and take them into the real world. This happened with ASP.NET, the source of my first two MVP awards, and recently with Silverlight, I have started to use from the v1.0 in some real projects.