The Microsoft ASP.NET team has released a new series of videos that show you how to implement various parts of the Atlas framework.
For those of you who are ASP.NET developers and haven't heard of Atlas, it is Microsoft's framework for integrating AJAX into ASP.NET.
Check it out, if you have not already.

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[ So have you ever wondered how many times Microsoft has to create new acronyms?  I bet someone get's paid for every new one they create. :) ]
Anyway, back to the topic at hand:
Managing SQL Server Objects
As I have written about in several articles here on my blog, I have been using SQLDMO to retrieve […]

In case you didn't know, CRM 3.0 has a real issue should it find the same email address in more than one location ( i.e., Contact, Account, System User, etc ). 
For example, let's say you have a company of 20 people and you create an Account for your company within CRM and add each of […]

If you didn't know, placing your cursor on the line above a function and typing: /// will cause Visual Studio to insert a XML comment block, much like this:

This information is collected and written to an XML documentation file when you build your project ( assuming you've specified the XML file in the Project Properties […]

Last month I mentioned that I had created a small utility the generate the XML code required to populate a CRM 3.0 picklist.
I decided to go ahead and release it, as is.  Here is a screen shot:

  
Here is how it works:

In the text box on the left ( Source ), enter your Picklist Options. One […]

The Microsoft SQLDMO library is very handy should you need to perform functions that can normally be found in SQL Enteprise Manager such as:

Creating databases
Backing up a database

Restoring a database

Finding SQL Servers
Enumerating databases found on a particular server
Etc.

I've been working on a couple of applications that use many of the features of SQLDMO and have found the following […]

So my friend Bruce W. was at Hooters in Lewisville the other day and said that Holly, a new waitress ( and recent graduate from Texas Tech in Lubbock), was Miss April in the Hooters calendar.  Bruce said she was pretty hot.
I told him that in my experience, that any woman who has a title beginning […]

As I wrote in a previous article, popups can cause the CRM web client to not display at all, due to the nature of CRM web application startup mechanism.
Most of today's popup blockers require you to naviate to a site in order to add it to the blocker's "safe" list.  This is more than a […]