I was on holiday last week, so I have been catching up on what happened in the world of Microsoft Dynamics CRM and here are my articles of the week
Article of the week
CRM Code Review Checklist
An excellent list of checks and best practices for your CRM code
How to cope when you are out of your Developer comfort zone
This is one of my own blog posts but I think more people should read
Best of the Rest
xRM Best Practices
Best practices of creating an XRM CRM project, this should keep your project on the right path
When to automatically change fields using Javascript
Be careful when using Javascript to update a field, it can confuse the user
Should you register your plugins in the sandbox
Great blog post looking at the effect of registering your plugin in the sandbox. I would also recommend reading my post – Understanding plugin sandbox mode
Advanced finds where records don’t exist
Searching for records where a record doesn’t exist is a common problem
Use Calculated fields instead of Javascript in CRM 2015
Calculated fields can be used instead of Javascript but watch out because changes to a calculated field won’t trigger workflows
A list of the CRM build numbers, the question is why doesn’t Microsoft include this as well as the number
Building XRM solutions with standard CRM 2015 functionality
CRM 2015 – Javascript – Execution Context
The execution context has lots of interesting information in it, make sure you know what you can get from it.
proximity searching in CRM
maplytics can allow to search records within a given radius of a location, see how
Book Review: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customization Essentials
Review of CRM Customization essentials from CRM MVP Leon Tribe
Integrating Microsoft Social Listening with Dynamics CRM
Critical update planned for Dynamics CRM in April for any Chrome based users