My friend Bruce W. dropped off some supplies at my house this evening and when I went out to get them, I found one of my highly-trained attack rabbits setting on the front lawn.
"Attack," I ordered.  But, it just set there like a brown, furry, lawn ornament.
I guess I should have believed the guy at […]

If you've ever tried to close a browser window from ASP.NET by using the following code:
 
<input type="button" class="inputfields"
onclick="javascript:window.close();" value="Close" /></td>
You will probably receive the following message:

 
After digging around for 20 minutes or so, I finally found the answer on Anatoly Lubarsky's blog:
 
<input type="button" class="inputfields"
onclick="javascript:window.opener='x';window.close();" value="Close" /></td>

I am working on a project this weekend ( yeah, I know ) where I will be creating a folder in the file system based on the Account Name for an Account within CRM.  Since it is possible to have characters within an Account Name that would be invalid in a file or folder name, […]

I ran to the above error today assisting another Partner with a custom solution they developed.
Problem
The custom ASP.NET Web application is not configured to use client impersonation. By default, impersonation is disabled in a typical ASP.NET Web application created with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Calls to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web services must provide valid […]

My friend Roger was telling us about his week which started off with, "So I took the kids, my wife and her boyfriend to Chuck E Cheese…"
[ They are separated but it is just so funny to hear him say that. Guess you had to be there. ]

Greetings Everyone,
One of my new customers is purchasing leads from a listing service, as many companies do these days.  One of their direct mailings experienced a very high rate of returned mail so I am investigating possible solutions while also looking at the commercial potential of such a solution.
I am curious about the potential market […]

I noticed something interesting this week while creating workflow rules for various CRM entities related to how CRM treats the assignment of the owner of a record internally.
When you Assign a record to another party within CRM, it actually follows an assignment process internally.

When you change the owner of a record, it physically appears to […]

When you are developing a custom solution for CRM, you will undoubtedly be required to restart part or all of the system to get your changes to take effect.  Here are some guidelines that I use to determine the minimum amount of work I must perform to implement my changes.
Entity Customizations
Publish the entity in question […]

In the CRM 3.0 SDK, you will find an example of how to use an Attribute's OnChange event to format a phone number.  We found a bug in this code that was quite interesting.
Reproduction Steps:
1) Enter a valid phone number and exit the field so that the OnChange Event fires and the phone number is formatted.
2) […]

Last Thanksgiving, while waiting to have dinner with some friends, I decided to set down and worth through the process of:
1) Sending an email from within CRM, using the CRM web services.
2) Using an email template.
3) And including an attachment to the email.
Pretty simple, I thought. After all, the SDK has some pretty good examples of […]