• Dynamics CRM - Programmatically Block Outbound Emails

      Gayan Perera, 15 October 2010

      Time for another crm goodie... We've been working on a little project that needed blocking of certain outbound emails, with the Dynamics CRM plugin architecture this made it very very simple. For whatever reason, if you want to block outbound emails from Dynamics CRM programmatically, hook into

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    • Please CRM 2011 Sir, Format My Phone Number

      Gayan Perera, 14 October 2010

      At Magnetism, we try to make things really easy for Dynamics CRM users, like formatting the address, automatically populating suburb, city, postal code, country by using ajax suggestions, so that the user can go through their daily activities without having to worry about keeping CRM data clean. Esp

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    • Form Customization in Dynamics CRM 2011 – Part 3

      Paul Nieuwelaar, 13 October 2010

      In my last blog post on Form customizations, I showed some new features of Dynamics CRM 2011 that would save you time, such as making a field not display on a form by default, deleting fields, sections, and tabs by pressing the delete key, and dragging fields directly onto the form. Creating new fie

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    • Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Dashboarding 101

      Simon Phillips, 12 October 2010

      In Dynamics CRM 2011 out of the box they are allowing creation of Dashboards. They have made the creation of them really user friendly and easy which is why they are allowing users to create dashboards on the fly as they see them to need one. In Dynamics CRM 2011 they supply seven generic dashboards

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    • A bit of Syntatic Sugar for Dynamics CRM 2011 LINQ

      Gayan Perera, 11 October 2010

      We've been using XrmLinq for our Dynamics CRM 4.0 developments and we've gotten use to that syntax, the new LINQ provider in Dynamics CRM 2011 is a bit different but thanks to extension methods and generics we can make it look the same as XrmLinq. The main reason for this is to port existing&nb

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    • Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and Direct Payment Systems – PX Pay

      Roshan Mehta, 10 October 2010

      Direct Payment Systems (or DPS for short) is an online service which allows you to build custom applications that involve secure credit card transactions. I have had the chance to build custom web forms inside Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 which use two different types of DPS services - PX Pay and PX P

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    • What is the ‘Power of Productivity’ in Dynamics CRM 2011?

      Louise Alderton, 09 October 2010

      I googled (as you do) the definition of productivity and it came back with two types of descriptions. First, it describes it as a quality of being productive or having the power to produce. The second referred to productivity in an economic way where it is the ratio of the quantity and quality of un

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    • A Quick way to Build a ‘Select all’ Button with WinForms DataGridView

      Vitalii Symon, 08 October 2010

      The problem seems to be so small that it makes no sense to post about it… until you try to solve it. This is what we want to get. A WinForms grid can contain large number of different controls and work with any kind of data, so it’s very easy to get lost among long list of events. The main trouble

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    • Using Sub-Grids in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

      Roshan Mehta, 07 October 2010

      I have been using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 for only two days now and man do I love it! The customization features have improved so much that I can’t wait to start using it full time. One thing I particularly like is the new sub-grid feature which can be added to any entity form. Now what is a sub

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    • Form Customization in Dynamics CRM 2011 – Part 2

      Paul Nieuwelaar, 06 October 2010

      In part one of my Form Customization in Dynamics CRM 2011 blog post, I went over how you can customize an entity from inside a record, and how the customizations now allow for drag-and-drop capability for fields, sections and tabs. Making a field not display on a form by default One thing I would li

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    • Microsoft Dynamics CRM to Xero Connector

      Simon Phillips, 05 October 2010

      Do you use Dynamics CRM and Xero? If you do, you are most likely fed up of having to enter data twice in both systems taking up precious time and leaving a margin for error. Maybe you have just Dynamics CRM but wish you could track invoicing and customer payments better than Dynamics CRM does alone

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    • 5 Syntax Changes in Dynamics CRM 2011 Plugins

      Gayan Perera, 04 October 2010

      There are number of changes between Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK and CRM 4 SDK. Let’s take a look at what has changed between plugins.  * 1. The IPlugin now resides in Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk namespace instead of Microsoft.Crm.Sdk public class ClassName : Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.IPlugin public class ClassNa

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    • Automatic Bill Collections with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

      John Eccles, 03 October 2010

      Collecting money from debtors is not exactly the best job in the company.  The glamour is in product design or marketing or selling.  Collecting money only gets attention when the accounts receivable blows out and the cash dries up – which unfortunately is what happens if collections is no

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    • Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 – Even More Familiar

      Louise Alderton, 02 October 2010

      Many of you who are already using and experiencing the benefits of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 may be very content with your current system and really feel no need to upgrade to Dynamics CRM 2011. And to be fair Dynamics CRM 4.0 is highly beneficial in its own right and was a great leap forward compa

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    • Marketing Lists in Dynamics CRM 4.0 vs. 2011

      Mark Smith, 01 October 2010

      With the release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, I thought I would go over some of the differences between the Marketing Lists of Dynamics CRM 4.0, and the new improved Marketing Lists of Dynamics CRM 2011. One of the most noticeable differences in Dynamics CRM 2011 is that everything important is

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