Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff
Information surrounding technologies that I work with at Microsoft
And the XRM train starts rolling...
https://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3053 This year is going to be a fun one :)
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 06/12/2009
Bing, Natal, Windows 7, Wave, CRM5….fiuff!
I must confess I feel a bit overwhelmed with the sea of information of upcoming products and...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 06/03/2009
The rule of rules
Recently I’ve been doing some research about “rules” in the world of user interfaces (personal...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 05/21/2009
Why the SDK doesn't contain .exe tools?
You know, I'm thinking of renaming my blog to something like "CRM insider” or similar. I often find...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 05/12/2009
Why the SDK doesn't contain .exe files for tools?
You know, I'm thinking of renaming my blog to something like "CRM insider” or similar. I often find...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 05/12/2009
CRM Dev community site
Check it out, Jim and Co. refreshed the community section of the CRM Development Center....
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 05/11/2009
No plug-ins for N:N relationships (associate/disassociate)
And I’m back, yeeeee!!! It is really nice to see the sunlight again… oh wait, there is not much sun...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 05/05/2009
Almost there...
Ok, I admit, I'll have to post yet another “I’m too busy” post :( … I’m absolutely heads down on...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 04/21/2009
Why so quiet?
[For a moment I thought of the "Why so serious" scene of "The dark knight"... didn't you? ]...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 04/07/2009
The way of the whiteboard
I just attended to an excellent, excellent Mix 09 session titled “The way of the whiteboard”; its...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 03/20/2009
Lighten up the Web... Mix 09 big annoucements
Yesterday and today have been phenomenal days for Microsoft that truly make me feel proud of being...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 03/19/2009
More useful customization tools
Check them out: https://mscrmtools.blogspot.com/search/label/tool. People implementing MS CRM will...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 03/11/2009
More useful CRM customization tools
Check them out: https://mscrmtools.blogspot.com/search/label/tool. People implementing MS CRM will...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 03/11/2009
Maybe next time...
Last week I had a couple of meetings with developers (they are from another Microsoft group) that...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 03/09/2009
Mix 09
Many of my "features" are deeply involved with our User Interface extensibility hence I've been...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 03/04/2009
2nd incubation week: Build your Business Application with Dynamics CRM.
Sanjay just announced the launch of the 2nd incubation week for Microsoft Dynamics CRM to be held in...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 02/27/2009
2nd Incubation Week: Build your business solution on top of Dynamics CRM!!!
Sanjay just announced the launch of the 2nd incubation week for Microsoft Dynamics CRM to be held in...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 02/27/2009
Sort on multiple columns on CRM grids
I was wondering what to write about in my weekly post; I wanted something “light” yet useful and the...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 02/17/2009
Customization Comparison and Configuration Data Tools
Good news for ISVs, partners and anyone building applications on top of the CRM platform. I’m really...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 02/09/2009
Custom ASPX assemblies
With the release of UR2 we provide developers a more convenient place to put their custom ASPX...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 02/03/2009
Import Customizations Timeout and Number of Custom Entities
As more and more people take advantage of the capabilities of CRM as a platform I’ve seen very...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 02/03/2009
Microsoft and Dynamics CRM Today
People seem to be compelled to write about the events that happen recently in Microsoft. Much of...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/28/2009
CRM Development: Intellisense, Schemas and Useful Resources
So here I am working on the specs for new exciting CRM5 features and exploring some scenarios. As...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/20/2009
AJAX SDK and JS Libraries
Perusing through some internal Dynamics CRM distribution lists a member reminded the community about...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/13/2009
Dynamics CRM Incubation Week.... Success!
As Paul Greenberg describes on his blog, the incubation week that Microsoft organized was a complete...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/05/2009
Dynamics CRM Incubation Week... a Success!
As Paul Greenberg describes on his blog, the incubation week that Microsoft organized was a complete...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 01/05/2009
Snow!!!
Everywhere around Seattle!!.... I would say that about 60-70% of all Microsoft employees in the...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 12/18/2008
Curious story
A couple of days back we had a town hall meeting where Steve Ballmer presented Qi Lu as president of...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 12/11/2008
CRM 4.0: Update Rollup 1 released
Our sustained engineering team has just released Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. It...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/25/2008
The new Xbox Experience
Amaaaazing. I love the new Xbox 360 Experience. Avatars, caching games to your hard disk, nicer...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/24/2008
Documenting CRM Customizations
Jim Daly just recently published a pretty cool tool that generates word documents from CRM 4.0...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/20/2008
Documenting CRM customizations
Jim Daly just recently published a pretty cool tool that generates word documents from CRM 4.0...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/20/2008
Incubation Week
Are you an entrepreneur or student looking to save money and pump your productivity up? Are you a...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/17/2008
CRM5 Features...so far
Some team members including me were thinking about doing a post that summarized some of the features...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/11/2008
VHD on a flash drive, Snapshot on hard disk.
This may be common knowledge for most people out there but I bet there are also many that don't know...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/09/2008
Sample: Silverlight 2 and CRM
Ok, so here it is (download); I finally had the chance to finish this sample and put it in a form...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/05/2008
CRM5 at the PDC
As part of the sessions that the CRM team held during PDC we publicly demonstrated very early bits...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 11/03/2008
Rolling at the PDC
Yeah Baby! I just finished my PDC session a couple of hours ago; it went pretty well overall and...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 10/27/2008
PDC: Appealing Business Applications
Alright, so I want to share a little bit the main topics that I will be covering in my PDC session....
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 10/15/2008
Infamous DeepCheck failure when installing dot net 3.5 SP1
I'm preparing my demos for PDC and one of them absolutely requires .net 3.5sp1 [can't tell you which...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 10/07/2008
Where did the "New" and "Add Existing" buttons go?
I came across this in an internal distribution list and I bet several people have faced the same...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 09/25/2008
Silverlight 2 and CRM
Q: Is there a way to directly call CRM 4 from Silverlight 2 managed code using the auto-generated...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 09/23/2008
Troubleshooting CRM
So you or one of your users is getting an error in CRM and the error message doesn't give you any...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 09/17/2008
Workflow import error message
Whenever a workflow fails to import CRM 4.0 will give you a friendly error message with the GUID of...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 08/29/2008
Business Application Platform
I could swear that I had blogged about this before but alas I didn’t which I find unpardonableJ....
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 08/21/2008
CRM Presence in PDC
PDC is coming and a bunch of product team members are planning to attend, myself included. Details...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 08/20/2008
Picklists: Data or Metadata
On the CRM Product Team we have had long and recurring debates about picklists; the issue that...
Author: Humberto Lezama Date: 07/21/2008