I ran into an interesting requirement this morning that let’s me show off one of my favorite CRM add-on utilities: Stunnware Tools. Let’s cover both. The Requirement I needed to create a list of users that were members of a specific security role. Rather than writing an application or designing a SQL query, I opened […]
Continue readingI have been dabbling a bit with iPhone development as a way to stretch my development skills. Unfortunately,Apple’s language of choice for iPhone/iPad development is something called Objective C which, for me anyway, is a time machine straight back to 1989 or so. Now I really have nothing against Objective C besides that fact that […]
Continue readingThis morning I was verifying the version of a CRM 4.0 installation when I realized that instead of opening individual files and checking their properties, I could just ask the Windows Explorer to show me the information. Perform the following steps: 1) Navigate to your CRM 4.0 installation folder, ( c:\program files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM ). […]
Continue readingI have been noticing lately that the Build Configuration dropdown list that is normally found the the Standard Toolbar is missing from my Visual Studio 2010 installation. After a bit of digging around the Internet, I found a solution, which I’ll document further here. The Procedure 1) Select Tools, Customize… 2) Click the Commands tab […]
Continue readingWell, it looks like Sales Centric and their Relationship Charts product is back on the market after having taken quite a long “vacation:� http://www.salescentric.com/relationship_charts.asp
Continue readingThis morning I was adding some functionality to my Dynamics Tutorials site and needed to determine if a user was a member of a specific marketing list. No problem, I thought. I opened up the most excellent Stunnware Tools to create the query. The only problem is that the Marketing List Member entity, listmember, does […]
Continue readingLast year I created an add-on for Dynamics CRM 4.0 that I called Data Validation. It had two functions: User interface validation Email management. This week I decided to split those functions into two separate products. I also change the licensing from a per-organization fee to a simple flat-fee. You may read more about these […]
Continue readingOne of my local customers recently moved from Small Business Server 2003 to Small Business Server 2008. Among other things, this required a move from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 as well. The movement of the databases went pretty much without issue, but we ran into some strange behavior with some of the […]
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