Here I provide 2 small Windows 7 tips that bothered me days and decided to solve it. well, actually they are just setting problems. First, in Windows 7, now the default option for Windows Explorer is to not show the folder list when you open or get into...

Long time no blogs. been busy on works, also mostly twittering and plurking except blogging. time to write something. Before going further, be caution that this is just personal-experience know-how writing, and use at your own risk . Being testing Visual...

This just spent me couple hours to find out, that you won't be able to install TFS 2008 SP1 on SQL Server 2008 SP1 by just following the Installation Guide. Even you've installed SQL Server 2008 and applied SP1, and followed Installation Guide to slipstream...

so we are finally at the stage of service-in our CRM Project to customer. since we did use CRM Outlook Client, when there are official patch updates, we won't be able to manually install them to all the client. thanks to client auto-update features, we...

When doing bulk data import on CRM 4.0 using self-made application that utilizes CRM SDK to communicate with web server, if the application is running parallel that simultaneously accessing the server, sometimes you may get this kind of error and the...

As in my CRM 4.0 design and deployment project we are reaching the end part of testing deployment phase. the Outlook Add-in I made using VSTO 3.0 with ClickOnce deployment will finally need to be deployed to client side and it's the time I am facing those...

One of my dev VM had missing all the project template while trying to new a project from selecting "New Project". had found this forum thread and by running " DevEnv /InstallVSTemplates " from elevated VS2008 Command prompt, all the...

# Remove an account in a machine which cannot logged in due to password forgotten Just tried to re-activate some of my old groove accounts in my other PCs and found that I forget the password set long time ago... (normally inside MS we had internal password...

People who are working in customizing Dynamics CRM system should all sooner or later facing this problem: what can I do to have my common sharing Javascript library injected in an elegant way so that all the events in all my crmForm can use it without...

It's already bothering me many times when I am export my Hyper-V VM (with important snapshots) and trying to import to another machine and hit this error without further information: Failed to import the virtual machine from import directory 'C:\vpc\somevpc1...

Been busying on investigating Dynamics CRM 4 Web Application and Outlook VSTO Add-In development for the past weeks and not update blog much. It's time to do a post now. Little but useful trick when toying with IE windows. When there is only a parent...

2008/09/22 marked the RTM day of Windows HPC Server 2008 , ranked top 23 of Top 500 as the Microsoft server for cluster computing. based on previous CCS server we made lots of improvements on the management abilities, also others. been a pilot tester...

Most of my testing CRM 4 environment were built upon Windows 2008 Server / IIS7 (both 32bit and 64bit) . The server and outlook client installation works fine without problems. started from this week I am making prototyping env. using Windows 2003 Server...

It seems worked while CRM 3.0 that one can pass custom variables via URL’s querystring and use it while form’s onload event. but it’s not worked in CRM 4 by default now. to be able to do this, you have to tune the registry. Create a DWORD registry key...

After some basic checking of CRM 4.0 system, it’s now time to import some sample data and test further. As I am working in Japan, besides using the original English contents for testing, also would like to have the sample data to show to my colleagues...

In the main page of Dynamics CRM, there is Application Menu Toolbar for users to do most of actions, also allowed for customizations. sometimes you may got customization requirements (like me) not to customize this, but to completely remove it so that...

Am started investigating CRM 4.0’s aspx source for custimization. had the requirements of re-indenting aspx/html code so that I can see the table layout structure and others. here is the quick note about using TextFX Html Tidy in Notepad++ to do the html...

started playing around CRM 4.0 customization. need to view the page html source often and need a good xml / html tag editor! I choosed Notepad++ for my tag editor, found it pretty useful. and now got the question about using it by default when I view...

start from next month I am officially assigned to a project developing solutions using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 product. so I guess here would be tips and tricks memo about CRM 4.0 customization later on in this blog. and here is the first one. How...

Just finished slipstream / servicing the windows 2008 server x64 iso image for using in my HPC server 2008 computing node provisioning (I would like my computing nodes to use Hyper-V Native network driver on Enterprise and MPI NIC to have high-speed access...

for the long waiting, at 8/6 PST time, SQL Server 2008 finally RTMed! checkout press release here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/aug08/08-06SQLServer2008PR.mspx download place here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/default.aspx...

Symptoms : Under IE7, under protection mode on, normally installed an ActiveX control. open IE7 Add-on manager, locate the ActiveX control, and disable it. because the ActiveX control is running, close the IE7 window and open a new one, or open internet...

What if you had written an native ATL ActiveX control and just can not let it show on your IE7 browser? You had considered all those security reasons like: turning on “using unsigned ActiveX control” on IE7 setting for Internet Zone turn off portection...

Got a task to write a native ActiveX control to run under IE7 for testing the security context when the ActiveX control creating another process to run a WinForm application. It’s pretty easy to create an  ActiveX control using .NET, but this time...

just at 6/26 , Hyper-V RTM was released for download … This RTM is 6 weeks ahead of schedule and will be available by Windows Update at 8th July. Michael Niehaus got a post of auto install Hyper-V RTM using Microsoft Deployment Toolket 2008 , and John...