Ben Riga's Deep Shift

In this segment Girish and I talk about how Dynamics CRM integrates with SharePoint.  We begin with a little guidance for where you might use one over the other and where they work well together.  And they sure do go well together.  “Separated...

In the last episode we talked about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server; in this one we talk about Microsoft Office on the client side. CRM actually integrates really really well with Microsoft Office Outlook right out of the box.  That’s a natural...

In this episode The Dynamics Duo dive into the deep rich coolness that is WPF.  We also spend some time talking about the offline data framework that Dynamics CRM provides developers.  In past sessions we built solutions on SharePoint and Office...

In yesterday’s video we talked about WPF and showed off some mind-altering 2D and 3D animations :).  As we said then, WPF provides access to local data and resources as well as access to bare metal performance including 3D graphics acceleration. ...

Girish on my team has been working on a demo that demonstrates the capabilities of the Dynamics CRM platform.  We figured it would be a lot more interesting to get some of that on video in the form of a conversation (as opposed to a screencast) so...

I spent some time with Manoj Nuthakki on the Dynamics team chatting about how we take full advantage of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) in the recently released Dynamics AX 2009.  AX 2009 ships with 10...

I just noticed that Girish has posting some additional details of the Dynamics Duo series on his blog.  Check it out here:  http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/   Technorati Tags: Dynamics CRM , Girish Raja

David “Mr. Dave” Yack sent me a copy of his latest project this week.   Dave’s written a book on developing with the Dynamics CRM called “CRM as a Rapid Development Platform.”  I haven’t had a chance to read through all 700 pages, as I...

Bob Familiar , an Architect Evangelist out of the Boston area, posted a nice interview with Dennis McCarthy, software architect at Kronos .  Kronos is a very large global ISV with a focus on workforce management. Dennis talks about a recent project...

Zack’s response yesterday to my blog post of a few weeks back about my gadget lust got me thinking about this again. Zack portrays me a keyboard hater so let me say up front that I have nothing against keyboards. Some of my best friends are keyboards...