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CRM 2011 – Understanding Solutions in CRM 2011
Solutions is one of the biggest development changes in CRM 2011 and it will take a little bit of time for people switching from CRM 4 to CRM 2011 some time to get their heads around it. When you do you will find it is a massive improvement not only in terms of keeping only […]
CRM 2011 – Why Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 will soon be leading the CRM Market
May 31, 2011
I read an article today with the title Four Ways Microsoft Dynamics CRM keeps up with the changing tide, a good attention grabbing title but it did make some good points highlighting why Microsoft Dynamics CRM is on its way to be the leading CRM supplier. Below are the four main points but I think […]
CRM 2011 – Average CRM wages UK – May 2011
May 30, 2011
I recently wrote a blog about CRM recruitment from a recruiters perspective and you can read about that here, the gist of the article was there had been an increase in the amount of CRM work. I wondered if this would have any difference on the wages paid to CRM developers/consultants so I had a […]
CRM 2011 – Quick tip – using EntityLogicalName in query expressions
May 30, 2011
This is a tiny small tip for writing query expressions and using the EntityLogicalName value. When you write a queryExpression you have to specify the name of the entity you want to query. The name is a text string you can create a string and put the name of the entity QueryExpression query = new […]
CRM 2011 – Setting an OptionSetValue in a plugin
May 30, 2011
I had to set an OptionSetValue in a plugin this week and for some reason I totally forgot how to do it, which kept causing my plugin to crash. Like all things in CRM, once you have done it you wonder what all the fuss was about and how simple it seems but before you […]
CRM 2011 – A Recruiters perspective of the CRM Dynamics Market
May 27, 2011
http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=54898273&gid=3610819&trk=eml-anet_dig-b_nd-pmr-cn I saw a group discussion in linkedin and there was an interesting discussion with the title - A RECRUITERS PERSPECTIVE INTO THE DYNAMICS MARKET Why he had to put the title all in capitals eludes me but then I also wonder if sending random jobs to every email address they have actually yields any positive […]
CRM 2011 – Will Denali, the new version of SQL Server help ease the pain of creating reports in CRM 2011
May 26, 2011
This week I have been writing some reports using SSIS and have been tearing my hair out at the slow and painful process using SSIS can be. Writing reports in CRM 2011 is one area Microsoft really need to improve. I have read on a few blog posts that in the next release of SQL […]
CRM 2011 – Getting the ServerUrl in Javascript and using Xrm.page
May 26, 2011
Whilst I was developing I had hard coded the serverUrl which I then used whilst doing an oData query. So when I moved the code from the Dev system to production for the first time, my trusty Javascript stopped working. I know you shouldn’t hard code stuff like this and I had only done it […]
CRM 2011VM is available to download on partnersource
May 25, 2011
The man with the best CRM 2011 tools in the business, which are CRM 4 to CRM 2011 Javascript converter CRM 2011 OData query designer has just released an interested post. I am talking about Rhett Clinton, if you haven’t used the two tools above go to his blog and check them out, they are […]
CRM 2011 – How to Schedule Recurring Workflows in CRM 2011
May 24, 2011
Gonzalo Ruiz has recently been writing some excellent CRM blog entries and he has just written another fantastic blog entry Scheduling recurring workflows in CRM On Richard Knudson’s blog he said that two of his most popular blog entries ever were based on creating a scheduled workflow in CRM 4. So it was with interest […]
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About the Hosk
I'm a Dynamics CRM Developer - Consultant based in Birmingham, UK.
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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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