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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 11:20 AM
Accessing a SQL Database from a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Plug-in
Have you ever had the need to access data in a non-CRM SQL database from within a plug-in? Let’s say that you register a plug-in with Microsoft Dynamics CRM that will pull additional data from another SQL database in order to pre-populate a newly
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Friday, June 27, 2008 9:38 AM
Plug-in or Workflow?
Deciding when to use a workflow vs. a plug-in is usually a straight forward process. In general, I always recommend using workflow to automate business processes especially if the business process will be later modified/maintained by “business”
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:27 PM
Plugins – Which message and which pipeline
A CRM MVP, we welcome our guest blogger David Jennaway who is the technical director at Excitation . In Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, plugins offer a very powerful mechanism to attach code to a wide range of platform events. Each event is identified by
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