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Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:57 AM

Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Silverlight Duo

This post is from CRM MVP Julie Yack who is at PDC ‘09. Today at PDC Scott Guthrie announced not only loads of cool new features for Silverlight 4, but also the release today of the Beta. So, what in the world does that have to do with CRM? Glad that
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Monday, June 15, 2009 6:53 PM

Fetch It

My colleague Tony Clayton the other day mentioned that he'd loved to have a tool that allowed him to enter fetch xml queries to rip data out of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. Fetch XML is a part of the CRM technology platform that allows you to create
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:28 AM

Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Sustained Engineering team released Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 4 on Thursday, May 7, 2009. Below are the links to the release and related information about the Rollup. Please see the Knowledge Base (KB) article
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Monday, May 11, 2009 9:10 AM

Incubation Week Party Favors – Silverlight CRM Attachment Viewer

Our guest blogger today is CRM MVP Aaron Elder who attended the last Incubation Week as a Solution Architect. As I discussed in my previous post , I had the opportunity to volunteer as a CRM Solution Architect for Microsoft’s 2 nd Incubation Week. 
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:49 PM

CRM 4.0: Checkbox style Multi-Select Picklist

Our guest blogger is CRM MVP Jim Wang joining us from Reading England. Jim blogs regularly at Microsoft Dynamics CRM – Jim Wang’s technical blog [MVP] . CRM 4.0 doesn't have many out-of-box user controls, such as multi-select picklists. The standard CRM
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Friday, March 27, 2009 10:03 AM

Synchronous Matchcode Generation - Forced Duplicate Detection in Dynamics CRM 4

Today we welcome our guest blogger and CRM MVP Ayaz Ahmad. Ayaz blogs at Ayaz Ahmad [MVP MIcrosoft CRM, MBSS] . Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 provides a Duplicate Detection feature to protect the quality of your data. Duplicate Detection rules can be defined
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:47 AM

When do asynchronous jobs fail, suspend or retry?

When the CRM Asynchronous Processing Service gets an error, there are three possible actions it will take depending on the type of error: Fail: Job cannot be resumed. Retry: Job will be paused and retried after a period of time. Suspend: Job will be suspended
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:19 AM

Support for COUNT(DISTINCT) in Fetch XML queries

We have made a couple of enhancements to the aggregate query feature of Fetch XML. These updates have shipped for version 4.0 as part of UR2 and for version 3.0 as documented in KB Article 960079 . So far we only supported the count aggregate function
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Friday, February 27, 2009 9:26 AM

Creating a Birthday Contact List

Today we welcome our guest blogger CRM MVP Darren Liu from the Crowe Horwath company. Have you ever been asked by someone to get a list of contacts having birthdays during a certain time period from CRM? If so what have you done to perform this task?
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Friday, February 20, 2009 9:29 AM

Performance Testing using DbPopulator

DbPopulator is a tool used by MSCRM performance team to populate different types of data (qualitatively and quantitatively) in the MSCRM test boxes for performance testing. This tool is available as part of CRM Performace Toolkit (download available in
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:52 AM

Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 - More Info

On 2/8/2008, the CRM Sustained Engineering team released a new version of the Update Rollup 2 packages. The new version of Update Rollup 2 addresses some of the issues that have been noted in the comments for this blog entry . Including: Strings in the
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Monday, February 02, 2009 9:10 AM

Boost performance with Pre-generated XmlSerializers

Creating an XmlSerializer has a well-known performance cost since .net will generate a temporary helper assembly which requires a compiler call. Additionally, the assembly cannot be unloaded without unloading the hosting application domain causing high
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Monday, January 12, 2009 8:16 AM

Implementing Approval Verification Processes

Today we welcome Microsoft Dynamics CRM MVP Umar Khan who is a Microsoft CRM Consultant. You can read more from Umar on his blog at http://umarkhan.wordpress.com . In business processes, there are sometimes scenarios in which certain steps require approval,
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:10 AM

Building Rich-Client Dashboards for Microsoft Dynamics CRM with Windows Presentation Foundation

This month I am pleased to introduce Jeremy Hofmann, a Manager in Crowe Horwath' s Dynamics CRM practice and is responsible for many successful deployments of Dynamics CRM across North America. In his usual style Jeremy steps out of the box and shows
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:35 AM

Just do it – Deleting attributes that are in use by running Workflows

Microsoft Dynamics CRM MVP Aaron Elder of Ascentium provides some tips and tricks . Recently, we had the need to delete several attributes from an entity we had created (Employee).  Normally this is a very straight forward affair in Microsoft CRM. 
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