The Region at MicrosoftRegionalDirectors.com

Welcome to The Region, global hub for the 140 software architects, developers, trainers and other professionals selected by Microsoft as Regional Directors. The first thing to know is that, while we’re officially recognized by Microsoft and often receive inside information about forthcoming technologies, we are completely independent. We are not Microsoft employees. As to The Region, it’s designed to help us circulate insights, information, inspiration and inquiries among RD’s and among the broader developer community. And it's an experiment. We hope you find it useful. We hope we find it useful, too.


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David Yack is the CTO of Colorado Technology Consultants, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner based in Colorado. As a senior hands’ on technology and business consultant with over 18 years of industry experience, David enjoys developing applications for the Microsoft platforms, specializing in large system architecture , design and integration. David embraced .NET during the final beta days of version 1.0 and has been helping clients migrate and build new applications on the technology, as well as helping to mentor and train their staffs. David is a Microsoft Regional Director and is also a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET. David is a frequent speaker at user group and industry events and is co-author of two NET 2.0 related books. David founded and is on the leadership team for the South Colorado .NET User Group and lives in Colorado Springs with his wife and two kids. You can always track David down via his blog at http://blog.davidyack.com where he writes about his .NET adventures.

TechTalk

Get Current DateTime from within the WP7 Emulator

David Yack writes "...Came across this forum post that was helpful to explain how to delete the emulator state and get a real current date..." Read post »

Silverlight

Solution to Error While Building Silverlight 3 on a x64 Build Machine

David Yack writes "...Microsoft.Silverlight.Common.targets (101): The Silverlight 3 SDK is not installed...His solution is to simply use the Build Parameters feature of VS2010 to be able to define the platform as x86 to run the build. You can find this option by" Read post »

Dynamics

Walkthrough Installing the CRM SDK

David Yack writes "...it will allow you to use the LINQ expression syntax that developers have been using since C#3/VB9 to build queries. Additionally, this introduces the idea of using the normal .NET data types instead of the CRM specific ones e.g CRMBoolean...There are other good things..." Read post »
North America

David Yack

President Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc. Colorado Springs, CO, US Send email to David David's blog  »

Technical Expertise .NET Development, ASP .NET, Business Solutions, C#, MapPoint .NET, Microsoft CRM, Silverlight, SQL Server, Tablet PC
Years of Experience 20
Certifications MCP, METRO-C, METRO-T
Vertical Industries Served Accounting and Financial, Customer Relationship Management, E-Business, Distribution