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CompletIT – the company behind SilverlightShow – has recently launched its new corporate website, done entirely in Silverlight. In this case study, CompletIT CTO Emil Stoychev and Development Lead Miroslav Miroslavov reveal the challenges faced during the management and development of this Silverlight project.

Company Profile

Company name: CompletIT
Website: http://www.completit.com/
Industry: Software Development, Consultations, Trainings
Brief intro to company: CompletIT is a privately owned company specialized in Silverlight software development, Silverlight training and consulting services.

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.

With the rapid development of Silverlight as a line-of-business technology, we are seeing more and more interesting, attractive, user-friendly business applications based on it. One such application is successfully showcasing the works and achievements of its author.

We introduce you to Silverlight MVP András Velvárt and the story behind the creation of his portal http://response.hu/, and two of his award-winning projects.

Building N-Tier business applications with technologies currently in a CTP version (facing WCF RIA Services, formerly .NET RIA Services) could be not the easiest job. One of our recent articles was on this topic (Building N-Tier business applications with .NET RIA Services – Part I) and Ian Burt joined the discussion expressing his thoughts on performance issues. That provoked us to have an interview with him to share his experience and position on that topic.

Thierry Fierens from Adest is the next person who responded to our “Shared Experience” initiative. He explains in details about his experience with Silverlight and shares a little information about his company projects. While new to Silverlight, Thierry has a vast experience in Client/Server application design so be sure that you will be intrigued by his responses.

Don't forget that you may also submit your answers together with a white paper of the Silverlight solution you have. We'll be really glad to publish information about your recent Silverlight projects.

Now let’s finally take a look at what Thierry Fierens has shared with us.

Ken Azuma from 2ndFACTORY is the next person who responded to our “Shared Experience” initiative. He explains in details about his experience with Silverlight and shares a little information about the "Jellyfish Deep Zoom” project presented at the MIX09 Conference. Ken is an experienced architect at Japan so be sure that you will be intrigued by his responses.

Don't forget that you may also submit your answers together with a white paper of the Silverlight solution you have. We'll be really glad to publish information about your recent Silverlight projects.

Now let’s finally take a look at what Ken Azuma has shared with us.

Introduction

Silverlight 3 is on its way with tons of new goodies. But each technology has to be well accepted from the business users in order to be successful. The question is what can help the business to take such a decision? We, at SilverlightShow.net, are sure that sharing experience is a good start.

This article is a part of our “Shared Experience” initiative that aims to give a place to every person or company that has experience in a commercial Silverlight product or project and wants to share that knowledge. If you are one of them and you are willing to participate, don't hesitate to download and answer our questions. In return, we will publish not only your answers, but also a white paper of the Silverlight solution you have.

One of the first people who kindly responded to our challenge was David Kelley from IdentityMine. Let’s take a look at what David has shared with us.