Today, in a post in the MSCRM 3.0 Developer newsgroup, Simon pointed out that their was no reference to capture the Save and New button event.
The SDK documentation for the OnSave event lists the following event.Mode values:
CRM_FORM_SAVE_MODE_SAVE = 1
CRM_FORM_SAVE_MODE_SAVEANDCLOSE = 2
I put the following code into the OnSave event of a form:
alert(event.Mode);
and found that Save and […]

Ok, it wasn't a blizzard.  All that happened was it rained then dropped to 25 degrees, which made everything freeze solid with a quarter inch of ice everywhere.
Texans don't do ice very well and unfortunately, if you made the mistake of venturing into any of the Dallas-area grocery stores, you would have though it was […]

Phillip Richardson had a great post today about blogging entitled: My 13 Tips to Expanding my Ego with Blogging.
It's a great post and I've already taken a few of his tips to heart and made some changes to my blog.Unfortunately, I discovered something that is a little embarrasing.  If you search Technorati for Microsoft CRM, […]

So I'm trying to be a good corporate citizen of the planet and have joined the recycle movement here in Coppell, Texas.
A couple weeks ago, I finally emptied out one of those industrial-sized bottles of Dawn dishwashing soap and I decided that I had to clean out the soap remnants before I could chunk it […]

A funny thing happened to me last week.  What started out as a typical lunch with friends took a completely and unforeseen turn to the unbelievable.
It all started as I headed to lunch with three friends at one of our favorite eateries.
Not quite half way there, I noticed a rather warm sensation developing on my […]

I was just watching a show on the Science Channel where they showed the guys who ride bicycles downhill on a snow-covered mountain.
One guy had just achieved his personal best of ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN FREAKING MILES AN HOUR.  On a bicycle.  In the snow.  And did I mention down the side of a mountain?  […]

When you create a new Entity within MSCRM you have a choice to make regarding the ownership of that Entity.
From the MSCRM 3.0 Help File:
In the Ownership list, select either:

User
Records for this entity can be owned by individual users. For example contact records are set to User.–   OR –
Organization
Records for this entity are used […]

Deleting Entities from within MSCRM 3.0 is fairly staightforward but you need to keep the following things in mind:

You can't delete system Entities.
You can't delete an Entity if it is being referenced on a Form of another Entity. An error message will be displayed alerting you to the references to that Entity.

To accomplish this, you […]

MSCRM 3.0 allows you to Export customizations from one system and Import those same customizations into another system.  This is handy should you have separate development and test environments and need to move configurations between the two.
You can also Export customizations such as the Site Map and ISV.Config file, perform required modifications, and Import the […]

In the Microsoft Business Solutions CRM Developer Newsgroup, Arne Janning gave an excellent suggestion for those of you with developer inclinations and a willingness to explore the MSCRM system to learn more about its inner-workings.
Open Notepad and create a file that looks like this:
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" >
  <ItemGroup>
    <Item Include="*/**" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>
  
Note: If you copy and paste […]