David McDonald's Dynamics Blog

Since the beginning of time CRM has had URL addressable forms.  This features makes it possible...

Author: David McDonald Date: 05/15/2012

CRM–Drag and Drop not working

There are a few places in the CRM UI where drag-drop are used.  One place where this occurs is...

Author: David McDonald Date: 04/17/2012

Dynamics CRM Developer Portal

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer Portal is an excellent resource for anyone who is customizing CRM...

Author: David McDonald Date: 02/26/2012

How to Federate Dynamics CRM

Microsoft CRM Guru Rich Carr has written a great article about how to Federate CRM between systems...

Author: David McDonald Date: 06/25/2009

XRM in the News

XRM made the news this week thanks to Mary-Jo Foley’s article “Microsoft takes off its xRM...

Author: David McDonald Date: 06/16/2009

CRM 4.0 VPC 2009 Networking Fix

On April 18th we released a new Dynamics CRM 4.0 VPC to our partners.  I love a lot about the...

Author: David McDonald Date: 05/25/2009

Application Lifecycle Management

I noticed that last week we posted a new David Chappell whitepaper - “Application Lifecycle...

Author: David McDonald Date: 04/11/2009

Public Sector on Demand Launched

Yesterday our team launched Public Sector on Demand.  It is an exciting new subscription-based...

Author: David McDonald Date: 04/02/2009

Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK Update 4.0.6

A new version of the CRM 4.0 SDK was released on 8/29/2008.  You can get this newest version...

Author: David McDonald Date: 09/06/2008

This afternoon I was playing around with the new Live Search macros. For a while I have wanted a...

Author: David McDonald Date: 09/17/2007

Dynamics CRM User Group Launched

This arrived in my email box today: The Microsoft Dynamics CRM User Group (CRMUG) is now live at...

Author: David McDonald Date: 07/20/2007

Dynamics Live CRM AppExchange

This is an interesting eWeek article discussing how Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM will include an...

Author: David McDonald Date: 07/13/2007

Microsoft Makes CRM Live Announcements

At WPC, Microsoft announced additional details about the upcoming CRM Live (aka Dynamics Live CRM)....

Author: David McDonald Date: 07/11/2007

Dynamics in Government

My role at Microsoft is the US Public Sector Dynamics Architect. This is a field-based technical...

Author: David McDonald Date: 06/27/2007

Biztalk Services

Wow. I am totally blown away by Biztalk Services. Simply put, it is an ESB in the cloud. This is...

Author: David McDonald Date: 06/20/2007

Government Interoperability White Paper

This is a good whitepaper that addresses some of the challenges of interoperability within...

Author: David McDonald Date: 07/20/2005

MCSDeed

On Monday I passed my last test for MCSD - 70-315 Developing and Implementing Web Applications with...

Author: David McDonald Date: 04/23/2003

Essential ASP.NET - Fritz Onion

I'm reading Fritz Onion's book - Essential ASP.NET. The book is terrific. It is probably the last...

Author: David McDonald Date: 04/21/2003

MCSD Certification

I passed the 70-300 Exam - Solution Architecture. The exam is too easy. Without giving away details...

Author: David McDonald Date: 04/16/2003

Semantic Meaning and Interrop

WRT interoperability between data and systems, perhaps the government gets it, and we in the...

Author: David McDonald Date: 04/15/2003

Computer Games harmful to rest of your life?

It has been several weeks since I have written anything in my BLOG. Since then I've had an...

Author: David McDonald Date: 04/14/2003

Full Text Searching Audio and Video Files

The most fun that I had today was playing with the Microsoft Speech SDK v 5.1 for Windows - not to...

Author: David McDonald Date: 03/25/2003

Web Services Day 5 and interesting VTC

On Friday I finished my week long Developmentor Essential.NET class. I played with the WS-Security...

Author: David McDonald Date: 03/24/2003

Cool .NET Tools

Here are a few useful .NET tools that I heard about this week: Lutz Roeder's Reflector Anakrino - IL...

Author: David McDonald Date: 03/21/2003

Web Services Day 4

Today is day 4-of-5 of my Developmentor .NET Web Services Class. Dan Sullivan is teaching the class...

Author: David McDonald Date: 03/20/2003

XML Schemas and SOAP

I spent the day learning the ins/outs of XML Schema and SOAP 1.1 and 1.2. I picked up a few cool...

Author: David McDonald Date: 03/19/2003

Web Services Web Services Web Services

I'm taking Developmentor Web Services class this week. I'm fine with the basics, and I really don't...

Author: David McDonald Date: 03/18/2003