Starting July 1st I will be blogging EXCLUSIVELY on http://blogs.msdn.com/joelcitizen ! Did you know that you make Public Sector blog one of the top 3 most visited, most read blogs in the WHOLE of Microsoft Corporation? YES! This is not new. It has been...

Public Sector DPE has several flavors of Windows 8 developer events in market. Please invite your customers and partners to register to attend these events to learn about Metro style application development for Windows 8. Live events: Win8 Live (all customers...

My colleagues Frank La Vigne, Joel Reyes and I will conduct a half-day workshop on Windows 8 on Tuesday July 3, 1:30 - 5:00 PM at the COM.Geo conference , a 3-day international conference on computer science and technology for geospatial information research...

Microsoft Now Is the Most Exciting Company in Tech Gizmodo - Jun 21, 2012 Microsoft is a company reborn. It's not just significant because of past achievements. The company is exciting again because of what it's doing right now. Related: Microsoft Completely...

Here’s a little tip that, as I speak with customers/partners, I’m discovering isn’t well known.  I will show you how to leverage features of the import process to the fact that import process allows you to build your entities much faster in Dynamic...

With Dynamics CRM 2011, there are many ways to get the same task done when you are customizing your solution.  However, what prefix is used depends on where you came from.  Let’s take the scenario of creating an entity.  If you are working...

As many of you know, the CRM 2011 UI leverages more “in browser” processing.  Because of this, CRM 2011 will perform better when using the latest version of Internet Explorer (currently IE9) because of IE’s advances in performance through hardware...

I am a big fan of each the One Organization per Developer approach to team development with Dynamics CRM 2011.  Additionally, I think every CRM developer should have their own isolated development environment (just like most traditional development...

I’ve updated the sample I started here by implementing Create Update and Delete methods.  The library is still not complete or well tested, but it is at least a head start to building a CRUD capable Windows 8 Metro style application using the CRM...

  Public Sector DPE has several flavors of Windows 8 developer events in market. Please invite your customers and partners to register to attend these events to learn about Metro style application development for Windows 8. Live events: Win8 Live...

What people often call the CRM 2011 REST Service or Organization Data Service is an OData service. … read more …

Run, don’t walk, and go grab this CRM dev essential.  A few of my blog posts are irrelevant (or at least much less effort) once you’ve installed this free set of enhancements to Dynamics CRM 2011. … read more …

If you are connecting to CRM Online with a Live ID, you need to register a Device ID and Device Password when using the organization service from an outside caller.  I walk through this in my Connecting to CRM Online from an outside caller post. ...

There are a few blog posts out there, but the ones I’ve found don’t take you it step by step.  I will, however, make assumptions like you know how to create an entity, etc.  Here goes… … read more …

Scenario: “I want to make calls to CRM from an ASP.NET page, .NET middle tier code, etc.  How do I do it with CRM Online?” Simple answer right?  Maybe for the persistent developer who is happy to reverse engineer the steps from the SDK documentation...

Now and then, I hear from users that don’t like the fact that CRM loads screens in distinct windows in certain scenarios.  I can understand how these windows can get a little daunting if you have too many open and are switching context between multiple...

You learn something new every day!  One of the things I’ve been talking to CRM folks about a bit lately is Minifying your CRM 2011 JavaScript and CSS .  … read more …

Developers, designers, architects and managers must be prepared to answer the porting challenge on behalf of customers who require Windows Phone compatibility. This webcast will provide the detailed process for porting from an Android application to Windows...

Scenario: “I want to build a Windows 8 Metro style application.  Since my app is going to just perform CRUD operations, I want to use the OData service using json so that I have the least amount of ‘data across the wire’ possible.” … read more …

Upcoming Public Sector Windows 8 Developer Events for the week of June 11-June 15, 2012     Public Sector DPE has several flavors of Windows 8 developer events in market. Please invite your customers and partners to register to attend these...

Public Sector DPE has several flavors of Windows 8 developer events in market. Please invite your customers and partners to register to attend these events to learn about Metro style application development for Windows 8. Microsoft Public Sector TechBytes...

Scenario: “I have an entity with a field of type ‘Two Options’ that I would like to populate within a ‘Create Record’ activity in a CRM 2011 dialog.   The ‘Two Options’ type in CRM 2011 is a boolean.  The ‘Prompt and Response’ activity...

I’ve been going through a bunch of CRM integration scenarios to refresh my “hands on” abilities.  You have to do that in a job like mine, otherwise you’re just a talking head that doesn’t know what you’re talking about .  Anyway, the topic of...

It’s been a while since I had to do it.  However, as I’ve started to need to tweak FetchXML after I’ve gotten it using my little trick , I was doing things the hard way.  I was looking at the FetchXML reference on MSDN.  Then I had that...

Scenario: “I want to move to CRM Online, but I wrote all my SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) using the SQL Data Source.  How do I convert them to use FetchXML?” … read more …