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Information surrounding technologies that I work with at Microsoft (Dynamics CRM)

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Workflow import error message
Whenever a workflow fails to import CRM 4.0 will give you a friendly error message with the GUID of the workflow that failed. Come on! don't tell me you don't know exactly what workflow failed just by looking at the GUID? :/ Indeed, the above is not particularly Read More...
Business Application Platform
I could swear that I had blogged about this before but alas I didn’t which I find unpardonable J . Being at the core “platform” team on the Dynamics CRM product I’m really excited to see that the market is finally picking up what we truly are… a business Read More...
CRM Presence in PDC
PDC is coming and a bunch of product team members are planning to attend, myself included. Details are still being fleshed out. Will a glimpse of CRM Vnext be presented there? I certainly hope so, there are so many things that I would love to share :). Read More...
Tour of Puget Sound
My brother visited us last week...it was awesome. We took him to nearly every major attraction that we know; it was like compressing all the weekends that we have spent around here in just one week…crazy. Anyhow, because I was off for week and a half Read More...
Picklists: Data or Metadata
On the CRM Product Team we have had long and recurring debates about picklists; the issue that always seems to pop-up is whether picklists are data or metadata; the invariable answer after hours of talk? They are BOTH. Why is the above relevant? Well, Read More...
CRM Links
Besides the glaring omission of not listing my blog on this list (he he just kidding J ) Jaag posted a pretty useful reference of sites that you should look at if you want to learn more about Dynamics CRM and the platform behind it. Of special interest Read More...
The role of virtualization on CRM vNext development
I'm wiping out my machines and getting them ready to install W2K8 and Hyper-V. The reason? On the CRM product Team, pretty much like every other team at Microsoft, we are making extensive use of virtualization technologies for our development cycle; all Read More...
Linq2Crm
Have you ever built a query that retrieves information from CRM using our built-in Web Service? If you are familiar with our query language (fetchXml) then you are probably in good shape to have a smooth ride. But if you want to use our object model (QueryExpression), Read More...
WPC 2008
Next week the Worldwide Partner Conference is happening in Houston and a lot of fun and exciting things will be unvelided there. Dynamics CRM will be represented and I would like to encourage any atendees to check out the following two sessions: · Expanding Read More...
N:N (M:M) relationships and reports
Did you know that the built-in reporting wizard actually supports M:M relationships? I was surprised to note that some CRM developers didn't know this but yeah, the reporting wizard does support N:N relationships and group by clauses using those; it is Read More...
TechEd Developers 2008
I’m about to fly back to Redmond after attending and speaking @ TechEd Orlando 2008. It was a rewarding experience in many different ways. Perhaps the best part was to have the opportunity to interact with hundreds of devoted MS developers and moreover Read More...
My Whereabouts These Days
Where have I been these days? Buried in my office :) Well, buried in the CRM's team building pushing really hard towards the completion of one of our planning/design cycles for the next release of CRM. Uncountable meetings and brainstorming sessions, Read More...
Silverlight Samples
Anybody out there has any cool sample of SilverLight Apps talking to CRM? If you dazzle me I'll probably showcase your App with some folks around here :) Read More...
TechEd Orlando
I'll be speakig at TechEd on June 6th... I wonder how crazy is Orlando this time of the year... its been decades since I visited Disney World he he. Read More...
CRM++ Customizations
Let me throw a question...If your were to have one feature (in the customizations space) that you really really really like to see on the next version of MS CRM... what would it be? Read More...
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