August 2008 - Posts

A book on CRM Platform Development
26 August 08 10:38 PM | girishr | 0 Comments   

I just got an autographed copy of the xRM Developer book that David Yack has published. I must say that this is a great resource for Developers and David has packed every ounce of his CRM knowledge into this book. After you get the book, don't just read Read More...

Filed under: CRM, Community, Platform, Training, Book

Creating a CRM WPF Offline Application
19 August 08 01:53 AM | girishr | 9 Comments   

Windows Presentation Foundation (not Framework!) allows you to create rich interactive user experiences. If you've watched the channel9 video on using WPF with CRM, below code sample and screencast will help you to hit the ground running on WPF development Read More...

Filed under: CRM, UI, WPF

Creating an OBA - Word Add-in for CRM
18 August 08 10:25 AM | girishr | 1 Comments   

It's Office time folks. If you you've watched the channel9 video on CRM-OBA , here is some sample code and screencast that'll get you going. Download the code Creating an OBA - Word Add-in for CRM Download the video WPF code and screencast are coming Read More...

Filed under: CRM, Office, OBA

Customizing Main Navigation of CRM 4.0 - Part3
17 August 08 05:02 PM | girishr | 2 Comments   

In part 1 and part 2 of the navigation series, we saw how to customize CRM's navigation. Custom navigation along with custom entities, allows you to start creating Line of Business (LOB) applications in a variety of vertical industries. In the final part Read More...

Filed under: CRM, UI, Navigation

Creating a custom SharePoint webpart for CRM
14 August 08 11:20 PM | girishr | 4 Comments   

Continuing the back to basics series, I thought I'd write a simple SharePoint webpart that pulls data from the CRM 4.0 VPC . If you've watched the Dynamics Duo talk on SharePoint , this should help you get to the next step and dig into some code. After Read More...

Filed under: CRM, SharePoint, Webpart

Customizing Main Navigation of CRM 4.0 - Part2
12 August 08 05:05 PM | girishr | 4 Comments   

If you have tried editing CRM Navigation as described in part1 , you'll be more than relieved to know that there is a tool that'll act as a GUI editor for the navigation. It is called Demo Tools and it is available for download here: Microsoft Dynamics Read More...

Filed under: CRM, UI, Navigation

Customizing Main Navigation of CRM 4.0 - Part1
11 August 08 06:51 PM | girishr | 6 Comments   

While we're posting the Channel9 videos , I thought it'd be good to get back to basics and show how we built some of the components in the demo. With CRM's entity/relationship system under the hood, it is very easy to create "xRM" applications Read More...

Filed under: CRM, UI, Navigation

Chatting on CRM Platform
11 August 08 06:18 PM | girishr | 1 Comments   

Ben has posted the first video in a series of videos we shot at Platform Adoption Center (PAC) reg. the demo we built at DPE. You can check out the video here http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/The-Dynamics-Duo-talk-about-Dynamics-CRM-Customization/ Read More...

Filed under: CRM, ISV, Platform, Demo

Get Your Head above the Clouds at PDC2008
05 August 08 07:44 PM | girishr | 1 Comments   

<marketing> If you're still thinking whether to attend PDC this year, remember that Early Bird Discount of $200 is ending in another 10 days. So hurry up and register . </marketing> BTW, if you are really wondering what PDC is going to be Read More...

Filed under: PDC