Michaeljon Miller
Things to do to the CRM RSS connector
There are two things that need to get done with the RSS connector, and soon. First, I keep seeing...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 03/30/2006
When Outside isn't really that far away
Seems that my previous post about going outside was taken a little more literally than I had...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 03/29/2006
Using the CRM SDK offline
I've been meaning to write something about using the CRM SDK in an offline state, and I've been...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 03/02/2006
When did "Open Source" start to imply "Swiss Army Knife"?
Todd Bishop mentioned the Higgins project this afternoon. For some reason this one just hit me...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 02/27/2006
RSS connector revisited
I'm getting close to finishing the RSS connector now. I've finished the cache code and I've switched...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 02/23/2006
Three faces of SaaS
I was talking to some folks yesterday about this whole Software as a Service thing. While we were...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 02/23/2006
Where is the RSS connector for CRM 3.0
It's stuck in LegalLand right now. It's not really Legal's fault either. When I put the original...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 02/17/2006
New-found respect
I've been spending the last few weeks developing a graduate-level database modeling course as part...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 02/16/2006
CRM metadata browser
It was interesting to see Mitch Milam's post about the metadata browser. This was a little tool I...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 02/14/2006
3.0 SDK is now live on MSDN!
This just showed up in my inbox. Enjoy! From: Amy Langlois Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 9:30 AM...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 12/16/2005
Why learn applied formal methods?
I’m just about finished with the coursework portion for my MSE degree and figured my last quarter...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 11/17/2005
Old Inside Microsoft CRM blog is back
It took me a while, but the folks over at Blogger were able to dig up all the old posts and get them...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 10/05/2005
RSS and CRM - a little history
Wow, just over a week since MS-CRM hit the big time and showed up on stage during a PDC keynote....
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 09/20/2005
How to add an "auto number" to a CRM entity
Warning: unsupported territory ahead Adding an “auto-number” field to MS-CRM is one of those...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 09/19/2005
MS CRM V1.2 Logical Model on MSDN
Quite a few people have asked for the database schema for CRM 1.x. Well, we were a little hesitant...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 03/15/2005
MS-CRM Programming model example
I posted the source over on microsoft.public.crm.developer. At some point I think it'll probably be...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 02/22/2005
More fun with CRM web services
I’ve received a dozen or so requests for the sample WSDL wrappers for CRM. I haven’t forgotten about...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 02/17/2005
Playing with Microsoft CRM programming models
I’ve spent the last few days playing with a new programming model on top of the CRM platform. This...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 02/15/2005
Should CRM services return an error for invalid attributes?
It turns out that I was always working with an altered version of the CRM platform which silently...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 02/10/2005
Roles, Privileges, and CRM Security
One of the feature requests that we get on a regular basis, and a feature that a few enterprising...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 02/03/2005
One of those irritating technical things
I was watching my local educational access channel this morning while walking on my treadmill. I...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 01/20/2005
What's with the CRM security descriptor?
In response to a number of questions I'm seeing on the Microsoft CRM newsgroup I've gone back...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 12/10/2004
CRM callouts are just plain hard to write
Building callout handlers for MS-CRM is hard. It’s just plain hard. Not because writing a COM object...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 12/09/2004
Add / Entity scenario in CRM 2005
I’m trying to get a feel for how ISVs and VARs might use custom tables and custom entities in...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 12/03/2004
More fun with XSD
One more old post making its way to MSDN. Torsten Schuster asked about the XML serializer, but...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 12/01/2004
Dealing with broken XSD
I'm bringing this over to MSDN from its original home. Ok, I've been dealing with this broken XSD...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 12/01/2004
Web services aren’t distributed objects
Why do we continue to try forcing a distributed object model into the world of web services? Nowhere...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 12/01/2004
Removing unwanted attributes
Any old post moving over to MSDN where I can find it. First, let me start off by saying that this is...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 12/01/2004
(Nearly) complete MS-CRM entity serialization sample
[I’m finally getting around to formatting this thing so it’s readable and changing the broken links]...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 09/10/2004
Listing of recent posts
I was playing around on blogger this morning trying to figure out if it made sense to move my posts...
Author: Michaeljon Miller Date: 09/08/2004