Greetings everyone.

Well, I finally got around to finishing up the update to my company web site: CRM Accelerators

It has been quite an adventure.  As with most web sites, you can't see most of what I did.  I actually find it a bit irritating that I spent so much time on something that is really nothing more than 5-6 web pages.

As I mentioned in a previous article, I attempted to utilize some of Microsoft's new AJAX technology on the site to improve the user experience.  It worked fine until I upgraded to from the Atlas CTP to the beta of Microsoft AJAX.  It seems that godaddy.com doesn't like the way they built the AJAX extensions. 

Godaddy runs ASP.NET sites in a "modified medium" level of security and sometimes this causes issues with components who expect to have more wide-ranging control of their environment, or which make calls to other components that violate predefined ASP.NET security rules.

Anyway, after fooling around with it for half a day, I exceeded my maximum "waste of my time" counter and I just ripped all of the AJAX crap off the site and with with standard ASP.NET.  It will get fixed sooner or later and I'll reapply the technology again.  It's not that hard and probably won't take me more than a couple of hours to reinsert the AJAX controls.

This week I'll also be releasing three free CRM-related utilities, which can be downloaded from the new site. Registration will be required to access the Premium Content area, but that's about it.

Later, Mitch