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...