The SQL Server team are doing a great job of making sure developers get access to all the resources they need to take advantage of the great tool being released in the upcoming SQL 2008 R2 release. The Developers Training Kit is now available for download - Get it here: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9710868
It includes a collection of Videos, Presentations, Demos & Hands on Labs so you can start to Ramp Up now & be ready when R2 is officially launched!
There will be updates to this every 2 weeks so keep up to date!
Excerpt from the download page detailing the great content included in this download:
Overview
SQL Server 2008 R2 offers an impressive array of capabilities for developers that build upon key innovations introduced in SQL Server 2008. The SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit is ideal for developers who want to understand how to take advantage of the key improvements introduced in SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 in their applications, as well as for developers who are new to SQL Server. The training kit is brought to you by Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism.
Overview and Benefits
The training kit offers the following benefits:
- Learn how to build applications that exploit the unique features and capabilities of SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
- Provides a comprehensive set of videos, presentations, demos and hands-on labs
- Contains new content for developers who are new to SQL Server.
- Contains new content for SQL Server 2008 R2.
- Contains all of the existing content from the SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit.
- Easy to download and install.
Intended Audience The training kit is designed for the following technical roles:
- Developers who build applications for the Microsoft platform.
- Microsoft evangelists, technical specialists and consultants.
Contents The training kit includes the following content:
- Videos (8)
- SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Overview Part I - SQL Server 2008 Review
- SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Overview Part II - Introducing SQL Server 2008 R2
- Introducing SQL Server 2008 R2 StreamInsight
- Demo: Real Time Analytics with SQL Server 2008 R2 StreamInsight
- Introducing SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-Server Management
- Introducing SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services
- Introduction To SQL Server 2008 R2 StreamInsight and Complex Event Processing
- Introducing PowerPivot for Excel 2010 and SharePoint 2010
- Presentations (8)
- SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Overview Part I - SQL Server 2008 Review
- SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Overview Part II - Introducing SQL Server 2008 R2
- SQL Server 2008 Filestream
- SQL Server 2008 Spatial
- SQL Server 2008 T-SQL
- SQL Server 2008 Date and Time Types
- SQL SErver 2008 SQLCLR
- SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
- Demos (13)
- AdventureWorks Racing All-Up SQL Server 2008 Demo
- SQL Server 2008 All-Up Spatial Demo
- SQL Server 2008 Spatial Types Demo
- Intro to SQL Server 2008 Filestream Demo
- SQL Server 2008 SQL CLR Nullable Types Demo
- Programming with SQL Server 2008 Filestream Demo
- SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Web Application Integration Demo
- Date and Time Support in SQL Server 2008 Demo
- SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Table-Valued Parameters Demo
- SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Row Constructors Demo
- SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Grouping Sets Demo
- SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Merge Demo
- Hands-on Labs (8)
- How to build your first Web Application with SQL Server and ASP.NET
- Using SQL Server 2008 Spatial Data in TSQL
- Using SQL Server 2008 Spatial Data in Managed Code
- Using SQL CLR in SQL Server 2008
- PowerPivot in SQL Server 2008 R2
- Using the New Features of Reporting Services 2008 R2
- Introduction To SQL Server 2008 R2 StreamInsight and Complex Event Processing
- Data-tier Applications in SQL Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2010
Well, I never thought my blog would ever mention Barbie – but then again, it never occurred to me that I would have a mini-me in Lego, so the wonders never cease! :) And as it seems to be a toy themed week, I thought why stop now!
Admittedly, the only thing I ever liked about barbie as child was how well her legs worked to dig tracks out of the dirt in my back garden so that I could race (my brothers) Matchbox cars around the tracks & over the jumps.
This of course required the removal of her head so that the hair didn't get in the way, and all in all was a fairly liberating! Can you imagine my mothers horror when I quickly removed Wedding barbies silly clothing, and used her to dig in the backyard? ahhh! No wonder she swore to never ever buy me another Barbie – and she remained true to her word! Not that I minded….
And don’t even get me started on the unrealistic body images that Barbie portrays… although apparently In 1997 Barbie's body mold was redesigned and given a wider waist, with Mattel saying that this would make the doll better suited to contemporary fashion designs – but I digress!
All that aside, as someone that firmly believes in raising the profile of a career in IT to the young female audience – this actually got my interest.
Barbie has been portrayed in over 120 careers since her initial release in 1959, and Mattel have opened to public vote what she shall be next. The thing that has my interest is that the list includes:
Computer Engineer – Computer Engineers have lots of Different specialties. They can do anything from building computers to making video games!
And in this stead– they are right! Computer Engineers sure can! :)
Well, you could also vote for her to be an Environmentalist, Surgeon, Architect or News Anchor, but I didn’t! :p
If you would like to vote as well or just find out more – go here: http://www.barbie.com/vote/
If you are migrating your MySQL database to SQL Server any time soon, you will be very happy to hear that The Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) family now includes a CTP 1.0 for MySQL which has just been released. Versions are included for both SQL 2005 & SQL 2008.
The Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) is a toolkit that dramatically cuts the effort, cost, and risk of migrating to SQL Server.
See more details & download from here: http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/archive/2010/01/11/free-download-microsoft-sql-server-migration-assistant.aspx
So now the SSMA family includes the following free toolkits:
SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for Access V4.0
SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for Oracle V4.0
SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for Sybase PowerBuilder Applications v1.0
SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for Sybase ASE V4.0
Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1
I just heard about a great FREE event taking place in in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney at the end of January that I thought I recommend you attend to find out more about the great new features in SQL 2008 R2. Its the SQL Server 2008 R2 Hot Lap which is being run by Wardy IT Solutions.
The SQL Server 2008 R2 Hot Lap will be the first SQL Server 2008 R2 workshops held in Australia. They are a ½ day catered workshop and they are free to attend.
A Hot Lap is a quick and concise way of finding out what is new in SQL Server 2008 R2 and how these changes will improve database operations, developer efficiency and enable self-service Business Intelligence solutions.
When & Where:
27/01/2010 - Melbourne – 1:00pm – 5:00pm
28/01/2010 - Brisbane – 8:00am – 12:00pm
29/01/2010 - Sydney – 8:00am – 12:00pm
The workshop will cover:
• Reporting Services Improvements
• Analysis and Reporting with PowerPivot
• SharePoint 2010 Integration
• PerformancePoint Services 2010
• Application and Multi-Server Management
• Introducing StreamInsight
Places are limited, so be sure to register here: www.sqlHotLap.com
This series is focused on helping .Net developers get up and running to be able to build CRM customisations quickly!
- Lets get set up!
There are many developers who have been working with .Net for the last few years, that are now finding that their companies are either implementing CRM, or deciding to embrace the xRM phenomena and build applications on the xRM platform. This content is designed to help get you up and running as quickly as possible, using the tools that already exist to enhance your development turn around times.
This series will be focussing on the more advanced customisations that require you to use Visual Studio and similar development tools. I am not going to cover Javascript, or UI customisation in this series as there are many great resources available already on these topics. This includes both online content as well as the regularly scheduled Microsoft Instructor Led Course 8912: Customization and Configuration in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.
In this series, we will start by building a single development environment to walk through the training. Although I will briefly mention the available enterprise tools, this series is not sufficient to cover the recommended development, test and production server requirements for a larger environment. If you need to assess your team development environment options, David Yack's book, CRM as a Rapid Development Platform has an amazing chapter that takes you through several options and gives you some great suggestions based on his extensive experience. I strongly suggest you follow his recommendations for using Visual Studio Team System as a way to protect your customisations through Source Control from development to release. His chapter on Developer and Team Workspace is available as a book excerpt here: http://rc.crm.dynamics.com/rc/regcont/en_us/op/articles/ch3_xrm_dev_sbsbook.aspx
MSDN also has a great article that discusses options for setting up your development environment. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee294457.aspx in addition to the description of the development environment, it suggests a few other source control options such as Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, CVS, ClearCase, Vault, or alternatively a free, open-source tool call Subversion (SVN).
I have also decided NOT to use the readily available CRM Demo VPC for 2 reasons:
- It is only available on Partner Source and I want this content to not be restricted by that.
- It is already loaded up with a lot of additional functionality and data as it is designed for demoing the potential of Dynamics CRM. I want this to be based on a clean, fresh installation of CRM.
To build my development platform I followed Matt Witteman's great blog Post: Building a Self Contained Virtual CRM Development Server: http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2009/05/04/building-a-self-contained-virtual-crm-development-server.aspx.
If you have trouble getting your internet access set up on your VPC, check out this great blog post by Menno te Koppele: http://www.tekoppele.com/Blog/post/2009/06/10/4-Ways-of-Connecting-a-VPC-to-the-Internet.aspx
Note that I have installed Roll Up 7 instead of Rollup 3 as mentioned by Matt and also added Adobe PDF reader.
More Development Tools:
There are a few nice little additional development Utilities/tools that will assist with the development process and you should consider installing.
| Tool | Description |
| FxCop | A free code best practice analyzer. You can incorporate it into your automatic builds and it is highly customizable. |
| ILMerge | A free tool to merge multiple assemblies into a single assembly. Perfect for deploying referenced assemblies with a plug-in or workflow assembly. |
| .NET Reflector | An excellent tool for analyzing .NET assemblies. |
| Fiddler | A free HTTP debugging proxy tool. Fiddler is essential for tracking and parsing the HTTP traffic between Microsoft Dynamics CRM both for development and debugging purposes. |
| DebugBar | A licensed Web development tool that integrates directly within Internet Explorer. Allows you to quickly navigate the DOM of a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web page. |
| IE Dev Toolbar | A free Web development tool with functionality similar to the DebugBar tool. |
| NUnit | A free, open-source unit-testing framework. |
| RhinoMocks | Another free, open-source unit-testing framework. |
If you aren't using these tools already, even for your .Net development, make sure you take a look at them as they are sure to help improve your development quality and experience.
I have installed the freely available Fiddler and the IE Dev Toolbar on our Development VPC. Instead of FxCop, I have installed StyleCop as it is required to support the Developer Toolkit.
Next up, I have installed the highly undervalued and under utilised CRM developer toolkit which can be downloaded from here. I think the CRM Solution Framework is particularly amazing and will greatly increase your ramp up time to develop solutions for CRM. This is especially the case if you are working in a team environment. However, as I don’t have Team Foundation Server installed on this VPC and wont be deploying to multiple servers, I have decided to only install the CRM explorer components as per the following steps (copied from the installer instructions provided on the site above):
Installing the CRM Explorer
To install the CRM Explorer, perform the following steps:
- At a command prompt, navigate to the folder C:\CRM Explorer, type setup.exe and then press ENTER.
- In the CRM Explorer Package Setup wizard, on the Welcome page, click Next.
- On the Select Installation Folder page, accept the default installation path or specify an alternate, select Everyone if necessary, and then click Next.
- On the Confirm Installation page, click Next. The Installing CRM Explorer Package page displays installation progress.
- When the CRM Explorer package is successfully installed, on the Installation Complete page, click Close.
Once the Explorer has been installed, within Visual Studio, navigate to the Tools, Connect to CRM Server option, enter your server details and credentials.
Go to View -> Other Windows -> CRM Explorer to show the CRM Explorer Window.
The downfall of not installing the additional solution framework is that we wont have access to some of the nifty project structure, built in deployment tools or ability to quickly create plugin classes. That said, the ease of navigating, viewing & editing the CRM entities with Visual Studio means that there is still more than enough handy features in the Explorer to justify installing it.
Before you start!
Before we start to build anything - always check to see what tools and functionality are already available on the http://crmaccelerators.codeplex.com site. The Product teams have built some great nuggets of functionality that may be very close to what you need to build. For example there are ones for Event Management, Sharepoint integration, Portal Integration, social Networking plus more! Each of the accelerators is provided free & open source, so take a look at the Codeplex site before you start building anything.
Coming Next: Build a Hello World!
Well, if my life goal was to be immortalised in Lego – then today my life wish would have been granted!
Today I received my Lego Mini-Me – an award for my support for the Women Build Program.
I was very lucky to attend the first Women Build Lego Serious Play event which was run at PDC in LA in 2008. Since then I have completed the facilitator training for these events and facilitated 4 other Women Build Events worldwide. Most exciting of those was being responsible for bringing the Women Build Program out to Australia & hosting our first Lego Women Build Event at Tech ED Australia in 2009.
A big thanks to the Women Build Team – especially Lynn, Esther, Karen, Ali, Beth & Asli for building this fantastic program & continuing to support its ongoing growth!
In November, Sydney Girl Geek Dinners joined forces with Females In Technology and Telecommunications (FITT) for its first networking event, kindly sponsored by Microsoft. The event provided a fun and interactive speed mentoring game, with the overall goal of sharing ways you can get involved in mentoring & give or receive support from your peers & our amazing role models we are lucky enough to have.
We managed to get a quick Vox Pop of a few of the attendees who shared their tips for those who couldn’t make it.... (Thanks to Christian Longstaff for being a super Camera man & to everyone that shared their ideas with us!)
For those interested in finding out more about the Networking program offered by FITT – details are here.
FITT & GGD Speed Mentoring Event from ceibner on Vimeo.
Yesterday, I learnt a lesson the hard way. After reformatting my machine not that long ago & reinstalling all my favourite applications, I didn't notice that some of their settings had been set back to their Defaults.
Unfortunately I learnt when I rebooted my machine yesterday without even a second thought as to whether or not my blog post had saved, only to find it hadn’t! I was used to Live Writer automatically saving a draft of any posts I was writing… turns out I hadn't enabled the option to do that!!
So, the lesson I am sharing with you today:
Set the Auto Save Option in Live Writer!!!
Go to the Tools –> Options menu, select the Editing Tab & click to Automatically Save Drafts every X minutes as per below:
Marcella Larsen, our Senior Product Marketing Manager for SQL Server has just put the finishing touches on the TechNet SQL Server TechCentre. This site has been set up as a local Australian resource to support IT Managers & DBA’s with the latest SQL Server-related information and as a connection point with the Australian SQL Server community.
This site will be dedicated to SQL Server themed blogs, related sites, upcoming local events, and resources to assist you in assessing and deploying SQL Server in your organisation so be sure to check back regularly & keep up to date!
Silicon Beach drinks is a community gathering held every Friday bringing together entrepreneurs & Geeks from local the Sydney area as well as visitors. http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia Silicon Beach is a highly active community that seeks to connect & support the Australian Information, Communications and Technology sector. It includes the regular Friday Drinks, more focused events such as Start Up Camps & a very active discussion list that I recommend you join if you haven’t already.
This Friday, Betsy Aoki is taking time out of her holiday in Australia to hang out with Silicon Beach crowd, meet some of our local Twitterati and has very kindly offered to sponsor the drinks :) So it’s a great chance to meet & have a drink with both Betsy & the ever growing local Start Up community.
If you haven’t met Betsy before, she is perhaps best known in Australia as Microsoft's "Blog Queen," Betsy Aoki launched Microsoft’s corporate blogging efforts but she’s also done a variety of other community projects: Live QnA, Xbox LIVE Indie Games, and now works on social media strategies for Bing.
Details:
Silicon Beach Drinks + Bar tab + Microsoft's "Blog Queen" Betsy Aoki
27th November 2009 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Bar77Grace on the Mezzanine level, cnr King and York Sydney.
Hope to see you all there and please spread the word to others you think may be interested in attending.
Well just when I have managed to spend a few days at home in Sydney its time to pack up & hit the road again! This time it will be with my awesome team mates, travelling around Australia on the Innovation Days road show.
This is your opportunity to 'get your feet on the ground, head in the clouds' and connect with top architects, developers, and web professionals in the community for a day of technical sessions and compelling discussions about the exciting future of the Microsoft platform, making more money and expanding your potential opportunities.
This is a day of two parts – the morning will be spent focusing on web and user experience technology, with the awesome Shane Morris sharing tips & tricks on how Microsoft can help you deliver innovation on the web and how your design and development can be better, faster and help to drive more revenue for your customers.
The afternoon will be spent with partners who are developing applications – learn how your development can harness the latest Microsoft technology. David Glover & I are looking forward to sharing our highlights of the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) and you can also learn more about xRM, Sharepoint 2010, Windows Azure, Windows Marketplace for Mobile, and application compatibility for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
The Sessions, Dates & Times:
| City | Date & Time | Venue |
| Adelaide | 1 Dec 2009 8.30AM - 5.00PM | Microsoft Adelaide
Level 2
Adelaide Auditorium |
| Perth | 3 Dec 2009 8.30AM - 5.00PM | Level 2, QV1 Building Perth |
| Brisbane | 8 Dec 2009 8.30AM - 5.00PM | Microsoft Brisbane Theatre 1 & 2 |
| Melbourne | 10 Dec 2009 8.30AM - 5.00PM | Microsoft Melbourne Exhibition Room |
| Sydney | 15 Dec 2009 8.30AM - 5.00PM | Microsoft Sydney Theatre 2 |
As well as the great content, there will also be some cool prizes, such as the FLIP MINO High Definition Camcorder.
Small in size. Big in quality. Easily capture, edit and customise your videos and stills with the new Flip Mino HD. Easily upload to Youtube, Facebook, MySpace.
If you are designing and/or developing applications for the web – come along to the sessions in the morning, and for our “traditional” ISVs – we have afternoon sessions relevant to you. Or - attend for the full day.
Places are limited so make sure you register soon!
I had better book myself some flights & start packing once again! See you in your city soon!
Are you attending PDC? Come along to the PDC09 Women in Technology Luncheon to meet and share stories with the powerful, insightful, and intelligent women attending PDC09. Take part in speed mentoring - an opportunity to gain insight from colleagues' experiences in the workplace through a confidential circle of peers - based on 'mentoring circles' design, but turbo charged for PDC. We hope you will join host Shoshanna Budzianowski, Partner Group Program Manager at Microsoft, for lunch while learning from each other's wisdom and successes!
Wednesday, November 18 - Location TBA
Register here to come along to the Women in IT networking event this year at PDC: http://microsoftpdc.com/WhatsHappening/Women-In-Technology-Networking-Luncheon-Nov-18
I am lucky enough to be in Los Angeles attending PDC in person. This year there are 3 xRM related sessions:
- Managing the Solution Lifecycle for xRM Applications on Tuesday at 12:30 PM
- Developing xRM Solutions Using Windows Azure on Thursday at 3:00 PM
- Build a .NET Business Application in 60 Minutes with xRM and SharePoint on Thursday at 12:45 PM
There is also CRM 5 related Hands on Labs available which I will be making sure I get to play with (and try to grab some of the content to bring back to Australia)
In the main Product hall, will be the Dynamics CRM booth – which I will be at on Wednesday Evening from 7pm – 9:30pm while the social “Geek Fest” is on so be sure to come & say hello! :)
ADXStudio will also have a booth (#310) where Shan, Alan and Craig will be there to demo their latest xRM offerings.
If you cant make it in person, the sessions will all be available online after 24 hours – and I believe the keynotes are all being streamed live!
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the local Australian CRM community is growing. We now have 4 MVP’s, and as of next month, there will be 3 regular in person CRM user groups. Not only that, but our user group leads have joined forces! They will now be working together to share content, speakers & resources with you ensuring that you get access to the latest & greatest information, no matter where you are. This applies to the in person user groups as well as our exciting new Virtual User group!
SYDNEY
The Sydney User group is still going strong with meetings on the 4th Tuesday of every month at Microsoft North Ryde. The next meeting is the 27th of October, starting at 6pm.
Venue:
Microsoft Sydney Office
1 Epping Rd
North Ryde
ADELAIDE
Our Adelaide user group kicked off a few months ago & is going strong with growing attendance & some exciting topics coming up. The next meeting will be on the 25th of November from 12:00 noon – 1:30 pm covering SureStep methodology. (Also – keep in mind, I will be there on the 2nd of December sharing some of the XRM goodness)
Venue:
Microsoft’s Adelaide Office
Level 2, Westpac House
91 King William St
Adelaide
RSVP: via email to rickrofe@x-rm.com.au
MELBOURNE
Our newest addition to the CRM User group community is the Melbourne User group, having their inaugural meeting on Wednesday the 4th of November with a 5.30pm start for Pizza & Drinks and a 6pm start presentation start.
Dimaz Pramudya will be presenting “See the Light in XRM”, which will cover the awesomeness of Silverlight 3 and how to integrate Silverlight with XRM seamlessly.
The session will be a mixed of demo and implementation.
Venue:
Microsoft Melbourne Office
Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place
Southbank
RSVP: http://xrmug.eventbrite.com/
VIRTUAL
Our 3 user group leaders are also joining forces to bring you a regular Virtual User group to cover some of the latest news & features. In collaboration with LIDNUG http://www.lidnug.org/ we will be giving you regular updates on what’s happening in the CRM world, ensuring that you stay up to date, even if you can’t make it to a meeting! Stay tuned for more details on that VERY SOON!
Last week in Sydney, we had 2 special guests from Microsoft Corp in Seattle, Bryan Nielson, Director of Worldwide Product Marketing, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Nikhil Hasija, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Dynamics CRM who ran our XRM summit event. It comprised of 2 tracks, a 1 day Sales & Marketing Track & a 2 day Technical Track.
I joined over 50 other attendees in the Technical track which on the first day covered an Introduction to xRM concepts, Technical audience overview, Technical architecture and the Underlying Microsoft technologies.
The second day was where things really got interesting; we were given a scenario of a Recruitment solution that required remote access, workflows, sharepoint integration and BI. Then came the cruncher: We had 3 hours to build a working demo using xRM.
Fortunately, Nikhil who was guiding the session, shared the valuable lessons learnt on the 24hrs to build an XRM Application experience that he had while at Worldwide Partner Conference in July. The result of which was a Rapid Prototype Deployment methodology – which had tasks broken down into 15-30 minute brackets.
Below is a Panorama I created with Windows Live Photo Gallery during the first (and perhaps most critical) stage, where we negotiated the features to include.
Throughout the stages, Nikhil continued to closely watch the clock & point out to us that “you should only build what you are going to demo”, and that if we over engineered the system, it would really hurt us when we get to the later stages of more complex customisations & sample data entry.
Once we defined the scenarios we would demo & the BI reports we would build, suddenly the required entities & attributes where easy to define and within the first hour we had our demo solution defined, custom entities created & were ready to kick off the design of our forms! We needed a break for lunch!
After lunch the rapid pace continued with everyone madly contributing to the solution. We designed workflows to schedule tasks, alert users to changes in the system and manage a multi user approval process.
We used the great Microsoft Dynamics CRM Demonstration Tools to help us customise the GUI, removing the items we didn't need & adding the ones we did.
Next up – our reports. But reports are useless without sample data so before we built them, we also used the Demo tools to generate the Random Sample data – a great time saver – but still a stage that did take 30 mins! Nikhil was right! The number of custom entities you have is directly related to the amount of time it takes to get the sample data together so keep that in mind!
Once we had our sample data, the required BI reports were built that included a pipeline analysis funnel report, a categorised bar chart & a drill through data report. The pipeline report was converted to a Dashboard & added to the GUI as the default page.
We were running out of time - we had 30 minutes left!
We set up Mobile access (which literally only took a few clicks & was configured & deployed in under 5 mins!). After this, one of the more complex customisations, which involved building & deploying custom C# code that created a SharePoint Document Folder on creation of a new Job & then added a link back to it to the Custom Entity in CRM.
After setting up some security groups it was time to test! We need to make a few changes to our forms, but all seemed good! We even had a few spare minutes up our sleeve so deployed the new Portal Integration Accelerator.
TIME IS UP!
I couldn't believe it! In 3 hours, we managed to define, design & build a custom xRM solution for recruitment that included custom entities, sample data, BI reports & a dashboard, Windows Workflows, custom call outs, Sharepoint Integration, a mobile client & a Web Portal!
Overall, a fantastic experience and an eye opener for everyone involved. Most of the group didn't think it was even remotely possible to build what we did in that time, yet impressively – we did! :D
