Aaron Elder's WebLog

Welcome to the wonderful world of Microsoft CRM Development. I hope to use this blog to give everyone a view into my world of developing on the Microsoft CRM Platform and within the CRM Application Framework. Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS...

Since this is my second post, let me begin by telling you about myself. I am as much of a software developer as I am a graphic artist. In fact, the reason I started developing was to show off the graphics that I was designing. While I had dabbled...

This section is more for fun than any anything else… I just want to show where the Microsoft CRM v1.0 UI came from so that you can get a sense of its roots and how it evolved into what it is today....

Just for fun, I wanted to detail some of the changes that took place in the UI from v1.0 to v1.2 of Microsoft CRM....

This section will give you pointers and guidelines for developing UI’s that “play nice” in the Microsoft CRM space. This will help your user’s interact with your add-on more efficiently and will help you give your add-on that “professional lookup”. If you read one article, this should be it....

This section will give you a high-level overview of the Microsoft CRM UI layout, and the terms that we use internally to describe it. The hope here is to create a “common language” and understanding of the current UI....

Well I have to admit, we missed this one. By Design, Internet Explorer does not allow you to access the "Dialog's opener" via window.opener . The only supported work around is to pass a reference to the opening window via Dialog Arguments. The problem...

This is another fun one... I was going through some old files and came across a collection of Microsoft CRM About Box concepts. Some of these were used for internal builds, others were used in external Alpha/Beta builds and still others have never been...

While this announcement is a little delayed, I am happy to finally announce that as of October 2004, I have left Microsoft Corporation. Even though I am leaving Microsoft, I am my no means leaving the Microsoft CRM space. To the contrary, Microsoft CRM...

I am planning on writing a series of articles about the Microsoft CRM v1.x User Interface . I have just posted "Part 4 of 4". Check it out in the "User Interface" Articles section or here: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronel/articles/230509.aspx Disclaimer...

I am planning on writing a series of articles about the Microsoft CRM v1.x User Interface . I have just posted "Part 1 of 4". Check it out in the "User Interface" Articles section or here: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronel/articles/230014.aspx Disclaimer...

I am planning on writing a series of articles about the Microsoft CRM v1.x User Interface . I have just posted "Part 2 of 4" and "Part 3 of 4" (the juicy one). Check them out in the "User Interface" Articles section or here: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronel...

This is a fun one... I was going through some old files and came across a collection of Microsoft CRM "logos that never were". Some of these were used for internal builds, others were used in external Alpha/Beta builds and still others have never been...

By the way, I thought I would call out that I haven't had a chance to post as much as I would like. However, I have been rather active on the Microsoft CRM Public Newsgroups . If you have a question about CRM or developing for CRM I really recommend checking...