Xamarin is holding contest to get ideas of how beacons (iBeacons) can be used to context-aware mobile applications. I have been doing a lot of research on beacons so I thought I’d share some of my ideas. The Concept: Don’t touch my beer This little idea will help insure that your beer remains where you […]
Continue readingXamarin is holding contest to get ideas of how beacons (iBeacons) can be used to context-aware mobile applications. I have been doing a lot of research on beacons so I thought I’d share some of my ideas. The Concept: Did I take out the trash? My city picks up trash and recycling on a weekly […]
Continue readingI learned an important lesson yesterday, again, on working with tabs with Dynamics CRM forms. There are several ways to reference tabs when writing JavaScript and using the Xrm.Page model. You may reference the tab by number, like this: Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(2) Note: Tabs are numbered starting with zero for the first tab. Or by name, like […]
Continue readingYay! Finally, the good folks on the Dynamics CRM team have added the ability to log errors that occur in plugins and custom workflow activities. Plug-In Trace Log This is a new entity that we can access from the Settings, Customization area: Setup You need to enable the logging of exceptions to the plug-in […]
Continue readingThe Spring Release of Dynamics CRM 2015 includes a new forms engine. You may have seen reference to this feature by the code name “Turbo Forms.” The propaganda (marketing) says that we will get as much as a two or three times improvement in the rendering of a Dynamics CRM 2015 form. My limited testing […]
Continue readingThis year’s Convergence conference in Atlanta was a blast. Lots of new announcements for both the Dynamics product line as well as that of Azure. In case you missed it, you can access many of the sessions in the Convergence Video Library, which I urge you to review as your time permits. Convergence 2015 EMEA […]
Continue readingMicrosoft just keeps releasing new stuff: Join the virtual event to watch as Scott Guthrie announces an exciting new Microsoft Azure service for application developers. Learn what’s new and how you can build cloud scale web and mobile apps faster than ever before and with less code. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/azure-march-announcement/
Continue readingThe Xamarin.Forms Grid layout has three methods for adding Child views to the grid. Two of them allow you to specify the location: Children.Add(left, top); Children.Add(left, right, top, bottom); The first variant is fairly simple: It just takes a column and a row. But the second variant, is a little more complicated. It was probably […]
Continue readingLike many people, I used marketing lists extensively to track different groups of people that I work with. Today I ran into a situation where I needed to perform a bulk-edit of the contacts that were part of a marketing list. Unfortunately, many of the normal commands available with the standard contact views are not […]
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