Creating a custom SharePoint webpart for CRM

Continuing the back to basics series, I thought I'd write a simple SharePoint webpart that pulls data from the CRM 4.0 VPC. If you've watched the Dynamics Duo talk on SharePoint, this should help you get to the next step and dig into some code.

After a little bit of challenge, I was able to get the sample code published in Code Gallery for download.

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I also captured the process of creating a CRM-SharePoint custom webpart as a screencast and you can view it below.

Creating a custom SharePoint webpart for CRM

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The example shows how you can build it from the group up. You can obviously use SharePoint project template and deployment packages to automate some of the steps.