http://blogs.simplifi.com/brucet Code and Developer Conversations with Bruce Thomas Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:53:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Recently I spent about three hours of my life trying to determine why the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration site refused to startup on a client’s install (it had been working fine for months). The site consistently returned a HTTP Error 503. I checked all the usually things that ... http://blogs.simplifi.com/brucet/index.php/2011/09/27/http-error-503-the-service-is-unavailable-in-sharepoint-2010-central-administration/   Hi everyone! Shawn Wildermuth new Windows Phone 7.5 development book is now available for pre-order on Amazon. This is a great book if you want to learn Windows Phone development using Silverlight. You may even see my name in the credits since I was one of the technical ... http://blogs.simplifi.com/brucet/index.php/2011/09/13/essential-windows-phone-75-net-development-series/   BUILD is a new event that shows modern hardware and software developers how to take advantage of the future of Windows. Learn how to work with the all new touch-centric user experience to create fast, fluid, and dynamic applications that leverage the power and ... http://blogs.simplifi.com/brucet/index.php/2011/09/12/microsoft-build-conference-ndash-sept-13-16-anaheim-ca/ Building Business Application in Silverlight 4 When: Thursday, March 10th, 5:45pm – 7:30pm Where: AUM Clement Hall (Business Building) Room 208 Presenter: Bruce Thomas, Microsoft MVP The Silverlight platform is an exciting development environment to build ... http://blogs.simplifi.com/brucet/index.php/2011/03/07/montgomerynet-developer-user-group-meeting/ The Windows Phone 7 goodness just keeps coming and this time it’s coming to Montgomery! Microsoft Developer Evangelist Glen Gordon will be in town on October 18th to present Windows Phone 7 development using Visual Studio 2010 at the next MADEV meeting. So, if you ... http://blogs.simplifi.com/brucet/index.php/2010/10/07/vs2010-for-windows-phone-7-oct-18th-montgomery/ Here’s the content for the MSDN Friday’s Webcast for Bank of America. The details for the swivel behavior include in this code can be found in the Expression Gallery. Thanks for allowing me to present today! Source: MefDashboard.Zip http://blogs.simplifi.com/brucet/index.php/2010/10/01/msdn-fridays-mef-webcast/   Tonight I’ll be speaking at Montgomery Area .NET Developers Group meeting at Auburn University Montgomery (AUM) from 5:45 pm to 7:30 pm in room 208 Clement Hall (Business School). The topic is SharePoint Development using Visual Studio 2010. Should be fun! Hope to see you ... http://blogs.simplifi.com/brucet/index.php/2010/09/23/speaking-sharepoint-2010-development-using-visual-studio-2010/   One of the perks of being awarded the MVP award from Microsoft is you receive special attention from the product teams from time to time. Once in a while a product team will decide to do something very nice for MVPs, like send us some ... http://blogs.simplifi.com/brucet/index.php/2010/08/25/something-different-microsoft-visual-studio-2010-ultimate-vouchers/ Have you been looking for the best place to learn ... http://blogs.simplifi.com/brucet/index.php/2010/08/10/windows-phone-7-training-events/ Come out Thursday, July 29th and see some of the exciting new advances and features of Visual Studio 2010 at the local community launch event! I’ll be presenting several different topics so I hope one or more pique your interest. In addition, if you are in Atlanta ... http://blogs.simplifi.com/brucet/index.php/2010/07/27/visual-studio-2010-community-launch-event/