After migrating a Sitefinity site that was using Telerik’s RadCaptcha to Azure, I noticed that occasionally the captcha just displayed a grey box. This was because by default the captcha image is stored in the server cache, but with multiple instances in Azure the server the browser is connect
Read the full article hereI was working on a project recently where we needed to use a custom Silverlight screen to deactivate a record, and then close the open form. This meant you were taken back to the ‘Open Records’ view where you first opened the record from. After deactivating the record using Silverlight,
Read the full article hereIf you’re happy with your sales team doing their own thing without ever knowing what promises they’re making or to whom, then you probably don’t need CRM. If you’re happy with your sales staff recording their customer calls on bits of paper or excel spread sheets that no one
Read the full article hereSometimes, when we insert a Radio Button or Checkbox into Date Grid in Silverlight, we could want several extra properties beside those basic ones. For example, there is a task that asks for enabling unclicks in Radio Button and allows only 1 selected in Checkbox. Let me show you how to implement th
Read the full article hereWhen editing pages and content in the backend on a Sitefinity website deployed on Windows Azure, I would occasionally get nasty looking errors that read something like this in one of Sitefinity’s popup boxes: “Row not found: GenericOID@r2j33174 SecurityRoot id=950d7b35-46je-4p56-75f5-7cd
Read the full article hereThere are many ways to learn about project management, many courses, short and long, that can teach you the ABC’s of the discipline. However there is nothing like life to give you a good dousing of reality. So I have begun reflecting on my experiences and decided to share my though
Read the full article hereIn Dynamics CRM 2011, we can set up a lookup view by editing Filter Criteria which could have several conditions. Those conditions could be based on fields, related entity’s fields and even related entity’s related entity’s fields. However, this is still not enough in some situatio
Read the full article hereI have previously taken you through various querying techniques through the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK such as the QueryExpression and QueryByAttribute classes. Today we will take a look at querying data using fetchXML queries and the FetchExpression class. FetchXML lets you define complex quer
Read the full article hereGone are the days when “education” was defined by what you did at school before you started your first job. With the speed of technological change in today’s society, ongoing education can now be defined as being critical to keeping your job. With this in mind, what are you doing t
Read the full article hereRecently I have been given the task to create and configure a sales manager dashboard which would be used by our sales team. As invoices can be raised by people who are not part of the sales team it was important that the records to be displayed were ONLY created by users who are a part of the
Read the full article hereOne of the features in Microsoft Dynamics CRM is the ability of tracking your competition. I have been working on a project recently which needed me to be very aware of what my competitors were up to and decided to utilise this to the full. It was suggested to me that I firstly build a central base
Read the full article hereMicrosoft Dynamics CRM 2011 has given us the ability to monitor and manage the progress of our marketing efforts. We can create different marketing lists to manage a specific list of members to send out our marketing material to them. A marketing list can ONLY be based on ONE entity: account, conta
Read the full article hereIn the Q2 release we see new Industry templates which show the power of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 across a wide range of industry needs. These new industry solution templates include a new data model, new pre-configured dashboards, new workflow processes and sample data and much more. The Industry
Read the full article hereMy best ever introduction into a company was when I worked part time for a telemarketing company after being made redundant from a more celebrated position. Even though we all worked from our own homes, the owner of the business insisted I visit her office especially to show me around and present me
Read the full article hereIt sounds simple because it is but the results are brilliant. In MSDYN2011 every user can set their own default opening view for every single entity in the system. This means that whenever you click on an entity you frequently view, you don’t have see one view then click and choose anoth
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