February 2005 - Posts

MS-CRM Programming model example
I posted the source over on microsoft.public.crm.developer. At some point I think it'll probably be put in a more permanent location. Updated 1321 - Sorry about not getting the context straight here. I usually don't read blogs through RSS so I keep forgetting Read More...
Posted 22 February 05 10:45 by mikemill | 5 Comments   
More fun with CRM web services
I’ve received a dozen or so requests for the sample WSDL wrappers for CRM. I haven’t forgotten about sending these, I’ve been working on cleaning up and extending the sample code so it’s slightly more useful and includes some missing functionality that Read More...
Posted 17 February 05 04:35 by mikemill | 1 Comments   
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Playing with Microsoft CRM programming models
I’ve spent the last few days playing with a new programming model on top of the CRM platform. This work was part prototype, part investigation, and part complaint. I wanted to see what might be possible if I took a completely radical approach to the API. Read More...
Posted 15 February 05 11:59 by mikemill | 8 Comments   
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Should CRM services return an error for invalid attributes?
It turns out that I was always working with an altered version of the CRM platform which silently was ignoring invalid-for-create and more importantly invalid-for-update attributes. Why is this important? Well, my recommendations for creating a friendlier Read More...
Posted 10 February 05 01:08 by mikemill | 6 Comments   
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Roles, Privileges, and CRM Security
One of the feature requests that we get on a regular basis, and a feature that a few enterprising ISVs have started to build, is the ability to have per-role UI. This also comes under the name “field-level security” – but only because hiding access to Read More...
Posted 03 February 05 12:39 by mikemill | 8 Comments   
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