Event on Many to Many Relationship (N:N) in CRM 4

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 does not expose any event when records are associated through N:N relationship. So if you want to perform some function when a record is associated to another record in N:N relationship, CRM simply excuses and you have to look into hacks and unsupported solutions.
Hack 1:
There is a cool hack by Aaron [...]

Generate Excel 2007 Sheets from MSCRM Data – OpenXML Show

Office Open XML is an XML-based file format specification for electronic documents such as memos, reports, books, spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. The specification has been developed by Microsoft as a successor of its binary office file formats and was published by Ecma International as the Ecma 376 standard in December 2006. The [...]

MSCRM and MapPoint Integration – A picture is worth a thousand words.

Microsoft Provides MapPoint Web Service to enrich application with mapping functionality. It allows you to integrate maps, driving directions, order tracking and proximity searches into a wide range of solutions.

For those of you who want to start using MapPoint for test and development purposes you can sign up for a free developer account here:

https://mappoint-css.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/MwsSignup/Eval.aspx
With a developer [...]

MS CRM and SharePoint 2007 Integration

Here is a very nice article by one of my colleagues,  Rehman Gul, on MS CRM and MOSS 2007 integration. I thought to share this with all of you….you can also find the article on his blog @ http://rehmangul.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/ms-crm-and-sharepoint-2007-integration/ 
SharePoint 2007 provides integration with quite a few Microsoft products including Dynamics, SQL Server Reporting Services, PerformancePoint, etc. Today, we [...]

VPC Development Environment for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Projects

After collapse of my QA server, I have been searching for various developments environment options for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 projects. As per my findings and discussion with other peer developers, most of them are using Virtual PC images for their development tasks. This is also recommended by Microsoft and a download at Microsoft website [...]