Getting inside MS CRM

If you think that solutions which are on this blog are unsupported, then take a look at the post which my new German colleague Arne Janning has posted:Getting inside Microsoft CRM - Part IHe'll get you virtually inside crm and from there you will be able to do anything that you have ever wanted to do with MS CRM.I'll have to warn you: if you don't feel comfortable with what you see, then just

MBS turns profitable

The Microsoft Business Solutions (Dynamics) group has made profit for the first time. The group posted an operating profit of $10 million vs. a loss of $17 million for the same quarter in the prior year.Read the full Techweb article here.

MS CRM 3.0 trial download

You can now download MS CRM 3.0 for a 90 day trial in each language in which Microsoft CRM is available! The page will be updated with new languages as they are released. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7d418781-69ad-422d-92fa-87fdb2538e2c&DisplayLang=enThanks to John for the information :)

Hide a form field

Now that each field offers an OnChange event, we want to use it. At least I do. Based on the selection or values in another field, I'm disabling fields all over the screen. But why disabling and not hide them?! It's not documented and therefore not supported, but it sometimes is needed. The code to hide a field is:crmForm.all.name_c.style.visibility = 'hidden';crmForm.all.name_d.style.visibility

Add dates programmatically to CRM

Does that word actually exist in English? Programmatically?Anyway. When you're working on a program which uses the SDK to add or modify data in CRM, then you will find out that there is not much documentation about how to use this data. And when you enter wrong data to CRM, then the error message doesn't help you much either: 0x80040216 An unexpected error occurred.Well. Here are 2 code examples

Quick create export functionality

Serveral of my customers are asking for an export functionality to Excel or CSV. Have you ever experienced that? If so, how did you create that?Let me tell you my solution. MS CRM 3.0 does offer SQL Reporting Services for Reporting. The reports which are generated can be exported to Excel and CSV. With a little bit of tuning, you can even render a report into one of these formats, without

You definately need this for a demo!

Hi all,Last weeks I've been giving some demo's. When a prospect would like to see a demo, then ofcouse I create a demo (in a virtual machine) in which they can recognize themselves. Every client has their own requirements and therefore require an own VPC. I used to use a simple VPC which has Windows 2003, SQL server 2000 and CRM 3.0 and extend this default image for every demo.But now I have

New MVP's!

Today I heard that there are new MS Dynamics CRM MVP awardees. One of my direct colleagues has obtained this award! Please join me in congratulating Rob Bakkers with this outstanding accomplishment!Find out more about the MS Dyn. MVP's here: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/communities/mvplist.aspx?Product=Microsoft+Dynamics+CRM