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
08 Sep 2010
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..."
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Silverlight
17 May 2010
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"
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Dynamics
10 May 2010
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..."
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