I bumped into this forum posting today about the right way to prepare for the Microsoft Certifications. I will paste the forum post here but I recommend you go to the forum to read the follow ups because it sparked a very interesting debate. I talked about passing the CRM Dynamics 4.0 customizations and configuration… [Read more…]
January 31, 2011
The Sonoma Partners have done a good 10 video course on the new features in CRM 2011. They concentrate on the features you use and change within Microsoft CRM, so these are the customizations a consultant would probably make rather than a CRM developer. What’s New: Episode 1 – Dashboards What’s New: Episode 2 –… [Read more…]
January 31, 2011
I think the CRM Dynamics Marketplace is a good idea, there hasn’t been much information about it. Then slowly but surely the information is appearing and things are becoming clear. but finally Microsoft made a blog with the FAQ’s, it contains details about costs and the testing (and where) you need to do to get your… [Read more…]
January 30, 2011
everyone who has used CRM will have heard of Sonoma Partners and will have been onto their blog/website. They also wrote the excellent CRM programming book and the CRM Step by step. There latest blog entry they have announced they are giving away Vibe. From what I can tell Vibe is a CRM accelerator which… [Read more…]
January 29, 2011
if you want to use early bound classes in CRM 2011 you will need to use the CrmSvcUtil to create the cs file to enable you to bound the classes early. The way I view this, is the CrmSvcUtil basically creates a bunch of objects/classes for the entities in your organisation. This then enables you… [Read more…]
January 29, 2011
This blog offers a good summary of the new features in CRM 2011. Not only does it list all the enhancements but it gives a concise description of each enhancement from a users point of view rather than a salesman. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crminthefield/archive/2011/01/02/microsoft-crm-2011-more-reasons-to-upgrade.aspx Microsoft CRM 2011 – More Reasons to Upgrade I blogged about some… [Read more…]
January 28, 2011
I am starting to write code for CRM 2011 and a problem I kept having was forgetting the darn WCF urls to connect to CRM 2011. The I found this webpage which has them on. For some reason it’s always difficult to find them in the SDK. I have also created a txt page with… [Read more…]
January 28, 2011
I found this good article today describing the type mappings between CRM 4 and CRM 2011. They have had a change mind and gone towards .NET types. I was watching a video and the speaker said this was because .NET had brought in Nullable values which is what CRM 4 introduced before .NET did. In… [Read more…]
January 28, 2011
The Microsoft Dynamic marketplace is up and running. I was pondering if it would change the way companies sell their CRM 2011 offerings. I think the main benefit will be to standardise the way people search for apps and accelerators. One of the questions I asked myself is what would stop people looking at the… [Read more…]
January 27, 2011
Wow, this was really driving me nuts. I added in my CRM references, then when tried to build the solution I got errors complaining it couldn’t find the references to CRM. AGHGHGHGGHGHGHGHGHGGHGH Finally I found out what was causing the problem I had to go into project propertise and then change the target framework from… [Read more…]
I'm a Dynamics CRM Developer - Consultant based in Birmingham, UK.
Certifications
CRM 4.0 Applications
CRM 4.0 Customization and Configuration
CRM 4.0 Installation and Deployment
CRM 4.0 Extending Microsoft Dynamics
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