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Friday, October 16, 2009 11:35 AM

Microsoft Dynamics CRM: New plug-in development article

We just published another plug-in development article in the Getting Started with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK article series. Here’s a summary: A plug-in is custom computer code that is compiled and registered with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to change
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Monday, September 28, 2009 7:33 AM

Case Number is Just the Ticket

Today’s guest blogger is the technical director of AlexaCRM™ and CRM MVP George Doubinski . Follow him at his blog, Georged CRM Blog . Microsoft Dynamics CRM has a number of entities that, in addition to the record id (represented by GUID data type in
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Friday, May 08, 2009 8:19 AM

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Plug-in Model and You

During the creation of my Audit program I became very familiar with Post Callouts and the whole SDK model. Now that Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 has moved us to Plug-ins, the model changes a little bit and I think actually becomes a little easier than the
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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, January 30, 2009 8:57 AM

Check Out Our New Articles and a New Feature: Add Community Content!

If you read Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 technical articles , especially our two new articles that cover plug-ins and how to generate entity diagrams, you may have noticed a new Community Content feature, shown here. With this feature, located at the end
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 8:34 AM

Creating a customized Plug-in Template for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Today we welcome MVP Bill Ryan from CustomerEffective as our guest blogger. In its basic form, CRM 4.0 Plugin development is straightforward, however it has many monotonous elements. This walkthrough on writing Plugins illustrates many of the repetitive
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:50 AM

Member, Static variable and Thread safety in Plug-in for CRM 4.0

Are you looking for best practices in plug-in development? Are you seeing data inconsistency and slow performance issues in the plug-in intermittently? Are you having problems with CRM 3.0 plug-in showing inconsistent/unknown Data after upgrade? If the
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Friday, November 14, 2008 10:27 AM

Part Deux: Storing Configuration Data for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Plug-ins

CRM MVP Mitch Milam returns as a guest blogger with part two of this post. You can read more from Mitch at his blog . In part one of this series we discussed the built-in mechanism provided by CRM to store plug-in application settings. Based on several
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Friday, October 24, 2008 8:44 AM

Storing Configuration Data for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Plug-ins

CRM MVP Mitch Milam returns as a guest blogger. You can read more from Mitch at his blog . One of the benefits to the plug-in architecture of CRM 4.0 is the ability to store plug-ins in the CRM database so they may be used by multiple CRM servers. This
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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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