It’s all about Apps these days isn’t it? The new App to have fun, to read news, to find stuff, to purchase stuff, to connect with others, there is always an App for “that”. What is the main reason to see such an explosion in the...

What’s the news you say? People have been programming the Web with HTML + JS + CSS for decades yet it is only now that we’ve started seen a new breed of applications that for practical purposes are indistinguishable from native apps: Fast...

So here I was, trying to make a ListBox in Windows Phone (Silverlight) scroll properly and for some reason, the thing just wouldn't scroll ok, sometimes items would stick in the middle, sometimes forcing the layout to update worked sometimes it didn't...

Like a couple thousand employees I'm too developing a few windows phone apps on my moonlight time J . It has been a pleasant surprise to find the tools and training material to be quite useful, if anything I would expect that a bit more structure and...

Change is the really the only constant of the Universe, if you can be certain of something is that things and people change over time. Switching teams is probably one of the most common types of change that people working at Microsoft live through and...

So it has been about a week since I transitioned teams. I'm now part of the Sharepoint Developer Experience team within Microsoft. First impressions? Impressed by the team so far and more by the type of challenges that are being tackled for the next release...

Almost 4 years ago I started an amazing journey with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM team. That journey will end next week when I transition to the SharePoint Developer Experience team. It has been an amazing ride with the CRM folks and I’m confident...

If you have a CRM solution and want to ensure that users installing it have the required runtime version there is an easy way to enforce that. Just set the minimumversion to the build number that you require. You have to manually edit the solution.xml...

CRM 2011 allows developers to natively use Silverlight applications to extend the user experience. One of the main use cases for Silverlight apps is to embed them into CRM forms to provide extended controls or visualizations. While natural for experienced...

Feels good to be back. After ~2 weeks of vacation I’m back to the office and felt like blogging a bit he he. Let’s see if you find this post interesting. By now many of you had already had the chance to play with CRM 2011 Beta. One of the...

CRM 2011 beta was just released and the team is crazy busy pushing on the last mile to get things ready for RTW. Long days, fire drills here and there, last minute adjustments and then a PM (me) ask the team to name a favorite feature and a curious fact...

Follow me at http://www.twitter.com/lezamax ... some tips & tricks for CRM 2011 will be disclosed there so stay tunned

Yes! CRM 2011 beta was just released and with that one of the hallmark features of our extensibility story: “Solutions Management.” Remember how extensible were previous versions of CRM? Well, we took that to a whole new level. With CRM...

The last 3 years of a lot of people's work have been released and it ROCKS! The CRM 2011 beta is live! http://www.crm2011beta.com/ Beta is a quality, feature complete release of CRM 2011 that will help us fine tune the last set of pieces for the official...

Seems that every time I write a new post is to explain why I haven’t written anything in the past month or so; that is so depressing, but I always have a good excuse right? This time my excuse is that the team has been crazy busy getting CRM...

Alas, numbers speak louder than anything else. I loved the Tech Crunch 'decoding' and I loved more the reference to Dynamics CRM. http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/26/microsoft-numbers/

I've been building a demo for upcoming CRM5 presentations by putting together several extensibility features, things are coming together pretty nicely. Couple of issues on the build did slowed me down but should be fixed soon. Anyhow, this post is about...

Noticed anything new in Google's homepage lately? And people say Microsoft doesn't innovate.. ha.

I’ve always thought that having multiple monitors at work (and now at home thanks to Win7 Remote Desktop) boosted my productivity but I’ve realized that it is not always the case. Why? I’m, just like pretty much everyone else on the...

New Developer Tools: Advanced Developer Extensions Fancy doing LINQ queries against Dynamics CRM4? Want to have a super easy data driven programming experience? Well, guess what? That and much more is included in the latest SDK absolutely free; no...

I’ve been playing around with some CRM5* bits and I’m happy to see that all the enhancements that we planned in the developer side are converging nicely. Particularly yesterday I spent some time trying out our new client side API* but because some of...

Thin, light, powerful, beautiful screen, battery that lasts forever, what else can you ask for? Oh yes, I'm still missing a SSD but I'll fix that soon :) What is my only complain? Too glossy. Don't get me wrong, the screen is pretty good, colors are...

I love to hear the news "buzz" around CRM5. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5692 (Steve, my almost next door neighbor is featured on the WF video referenced in the article) I was just chatting with a colleague today about all the features that...

Between Saturday, April 24 th and Tuesday, April 27 th members of the CRM Research and Development Team will be hosting a series of discussion groups and forward-looking research sessions at the Atlanta Convention Center for Convergence 2010. During these...

One of the most common IT projects that business application developers do is integration between multiple systems. In the CRM world it is not uncommon to see integrations to/from various application and services such as ERP systems, social networks,...