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 […]