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December 2005 - Posts

Just finished The Leadership Challenge.......
At last….last night I finished reading the " The Leadership Challenge " by Kouzes and Posner. One of the best books I have ever read, so I strongly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the subject of leadership. It not only offers practical guidance Read More...
A human touch....
Bill and Melida Gates charity work is well known around the world but I particularly found these pictures very powerful and moving: http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2005/photoessay/the_dynamic_duo/ Read More...
What does a Program Manager do at Microsoft?
I have been asked this question many many times. Mostly when I interview new candidates for Microsoft but also when I am having a frank chat with partners or customers at conferences etc. Steven Sinofsky, who has many years of experince at Microsoft, Read More...
Write less code with CRM Helper classes...........
Building an extremely developer friendly programming experience is a challenge, when you are working within the constraints of WSDL programming model. Basically, a WSDL programming model does not allow you to describe code/functions (e.g. user friendly Read More...
Quick overview of our Extensibility Architecture
If you want to see a highlevel overview of Microsoft Dyanmics CRM V3.0 Extensiblity Architecture without reading too much text, check out our slide deck that was presented at this years PDC. They are now posted here ! Read More...
How to convert DynamicEntity to Strongly typed Business Entity
As i mentioned in earlier blogs, Business Entities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM V3.0 can be represented using two different classes. For example an Account Business Entity can be represented using a DynamicEntity class instance or an account class instance. Read More...
Just imagine the best code extensibility model ...........
So with Microsoft Dynamics CRM V3.0 out of the door, we started spending more time thinking about how to start the next revolution in the CRM world. One of the interesting features of our extensibilty model is the ability to allow our partners to run Read More...
“Affordable Adaptability” in practice: CRM-Office integration via web services
You may have already read Satya’s vision on “Affordable Adaptability” ( Satya’s blog ). There are many aspects to that vision and one that I want to write about is on building business solutions that can easily be integrated with other applications, in Read More...
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