I really wonder about companies sometimes. Take a look at some of the SPAM I received this morning:

So in a period of less than an hour, I went from having the opportunity of receiving Unlimited Virtual Seminars to merely getting 20% off.
Hmmm….

Some of my customers use Microsoft Excel or Access to pull data from the CRM system in order to produce custom reports, or in one instance, to interface with a third-party bulk-email application.
CRM 3.0 has a set of SQL Database Views, called Filtered Views, that are constructed in such a way that CRM Security roles are [...]

Since most of my work these days revolves around Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, I would like to know what CRM feature interests you the most.
If you look at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar on my blog, you'll find a poll where you can vote on topics that are important to you.
If you find a topic [...]

Wow! Test number one worked great. I'm rather impressed.
Not only does it publish my article directly to my blog engine, when it performed the initial connection to my blog, it also downloaded all of my categories so that I can apply a category to the article like I normally would if I were creating the [...]

I was catching up on my blog reading this morning and ran across a new blog I had subscribed to from Alex Barnett.  He was mentioning a new set of plugins had been released for Windows Live Writer.
So I'm thinking, "Hmm. Windows Live Writer. What the heck is that."  It is basically a Windows application [...]

Vlad Mazek wrote a post today that I think that all independent consultants and small consulting shops should review.
Among other things, Vlad is proposing a network of consulting professionals and companies who can work together to leverage each others strengths:
There are literally thousands of people worldwide you can *compete with together*. The advantage is twofold:

You [...]

I ran into an interesting issue as I was adding the download component for my net site.
Using the sample code from the following article, I was attempting to initiate a file download.
CodeGuru: ASP.NET Tip: Control Access to a File Download
The problem I encountered was my download test harness was inside of an Atlas UpdatePanel and the [...]

I was working on my site transition and developing the download code when I ran into a very interesting issue while using the Development Web Server that is built into Visual Studio 2005.
Consider the following code:
string rootDir = Server.MapPath(@"~\downloads");
string rootDir2 = Server.MapPath(@"..\downloads");
 
If you are running on the development web server, the second command will fail with [...]

As I mentioned in an article from last weekend, I'm in the process of moving my company's web site from being FrontPage-based to a full-blown ASP.NET framework.  Today, I thought I'd give you an update on my progress and discuss some of the more interesting aspects of the migration.
User Interface:
Overall, I'm still using the same exact [...]