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

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