Jonas Deibe - Dynamics CRM, C#, JS : Microsoft

Reading the right CRM blogs?

Jonas Deibe — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:18:00 GMT

Ben has created a list of useful resource for the CRM community. if you are not listed and active blogger please ping Ben

http://blogs.msdn.com/benriga/archive/2008/05/28/reading-the-right-crm-blogs.aspx

The Wait for Visual Studio 2008 is Over!

Jonas Deibe — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:01:00 GMT

Full and trail versions please go to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx
Training Kit http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8bdaa836-0bba-4393-94db-6c3c4a0c98a1&DisplayLang=en

Downloading...

Outlook Address book integration (SAMPLE)

Jonas Deibe — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:04:00 GMT

This is a very simple sample how you could reuse MsSvAbw.AddrBookWrapper to populate a text field with chosen outlook user(s) from the address book. The idée is to reuse a dll found in Windows Sharepoint Server (2003) called MSOVABW.dll and script code. This could be extended to be used in many different business scenarios..

<html>

<head>

<title>Lookup Outlook Address book</title>

function AddrBookVB(strExist)

Dim Users1

Dim t

Dim s1

Dim item

L_MsAddrBook_TXT = "Title: Microsoft Address Book"

On Error Resume Next

Set t = CreateObject("MsSvAbw.AddrBookWrapper")

if Err <> 0 then

Err.Clear

set t = CreateObject("MsoSvAbw.AddrBookWrapper")

end if

if not IsObject(t) then

MsgBox "Error object not found.."

AddrBookVB = ""

else

t.AddressBook L_MsAddrBook_TXT & "", 1, "", "", "", Users1

For each item in Users1

strExist = item.SMTPAddress

Set t = Nothing

AddrBookVB = strExist

end if

End function

</script>

</head>

<tr>

<td>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</form>

</body>

</html>

Tricks and tips for documentation

Jonas Deibe — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:55:00 GMT

Document your project is a definitive must to-do but not always the first thing a developer thinks of. It’s something everyone knows is required but in the end something that might be done on the last project hours of the project budget, right? Well there are some things you could do to speed up documentation and semi automate this process. First you need to set the documentation level. Are you required to document on field level or is it enough to explain on a higher level what your new entities or callout classes are supposes to do? If the code is well written I personally don’t require field level documentation and a higher explanation (story) would be enough to understand what your solution is doing (or suppose to do). You also have the possibility to add your comments when adding fields in MSCRM during customizations. This data is stored in the metadatabase and could be exported to excel if wanted.

Solution architect overview - file as vsd is attached in this post

Since I first announced that I would write how-to deliver documentation as chm files I received a note from my friend Michael Höhne telling me that’s “old stuff” and he already blogged about that. So you made this post and I ref your excellent 3 part story.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

For editing you chm files you could import the NDOC generated files to HTML help workshop. Here you could edit and add not generated information from NDOC. I recommend adding the vision template (save as GIF) and add under Solution Architect chapter.

Once you compiled the chm file you have almost (or same) professional look a like of documentation as MSDN.

Suggestions on topics for you project SDK

+Your name of tool
 -Gettings Started
 -Screen shoots of solution
 -Flow – sales process
 -Flow – marketing process leads
 -Flow – ....
+Architecture Overview
 -Solution Overview
 -Namespaces
 -Technical Architecture
 -Source Control
+Logical Database Diagram
 -Overview
+Deployment
 -Deployment Process 
 -Entity type codes (if you have different setups of CRM servers)
 -Client settings (Policy) 
 -Integration
 -Javascript
 -Debugging
+Database
 -Index and tunings
 -Reports
+Callouts
 -Customer.Crm.Callout (your NDOC generated class documentation)

Adding new pages to HTML help workshop is an easy task. Below html is an example for MSDN look a like page that works nice with the NDOC generated files. Modify above (attached) architecture.vsd to your solution and save the file as Architecture.gif. Copy the file to the HTML page folder and compile it in the HTML help workshop project.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<head>

<TITLE>Platform Architecture</TITLE>

</head>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</div>

<h1 class="dtH1">Solution Architecture v1.0</h1>

</div>

<BR>

<H1><A name="hist"></A>Release History</H1>

<BR>

</FONT>

<hr>

</div>

</body>

</html>

Example of added html file to HTML workshop editor

Final word from an quote by Dave. I'm not sure I agree but some parts of me laughts :-) Happy documenation

“Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.” - Dave Barry

Now CRM dev center on MSDN

Jonas Deibe — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:58:00 GMT

I have updated "Microsoft CRM Links" and recommend all to bookmark them. I really like the Roadmap to Microsoft Technologies for Microsoft Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms913701.aspx

Timezone uppdatering

Jonas Deibe — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:24:00 GMT

Tänk på att synka alla offline klienter innan man patchar upp servern

Microsoft Download Center:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?amp;displaylang=en&familyid=8A7319E6-5B86-4E7A-9BE1-763F2072BE21&displaylang=en

Knowledge Base:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933453 (Overview)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925874 (CRM 3.0 Update to Time Zone information for client and server)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932984 (CRM 3.0 Update Time Zones Wizard)

TechReady 2007

Jonas Deibe — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:55:00 GMT

Kommande vecka är det TechReady vecka i Seattle!

Ska bli spännande och se vad som kommer visas då det är länge sedan det funnits så mycket nytt ute från oss.

Jag har boka in mig på alla Titan breakouts + Dynamics och IW spåren. Återkommer med techready rapporter.

V3C är nu släppt!

Jonas Deibe — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:19:00 GMT

Kan laddas ner via länken http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx? FamilyId=740E1B3B-11C3-4AEF-B2E3-8309E0CF1BB0&displaylang=en.

Uppdateringen innehåller bla:

Integration med Office 2007 "Ribbon"

SQL Express

Custom MAPI store (ingen pst file)

Tidigare Rollup update inkluderad

Vista support

IE 7

GPO deployments

Barcode's på live.com

Jonas Deibe — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:19:00 GMT

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