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Off Topic: CRM Find of the Day
So I’m wandering around a custom CRM entity’s form this morning looking for ways to improve the user experience on one of the associated Entities, which is linked to the parent via a N:N relationship.
On the More Actions menu button on the associated entity grid, there is a Remove option. Here is the ID for that that menu item ( dashes were added by me for formatting purposes):
_MIdoActionExcrmGrid10012topcrmFormSubmitcrmFormSubmitId-valuedisassociatetopcrmFormSubmitcrmFormSubmitObjectType-valuetabareaaccproducttypetohcpcscodeassociationNameaccproducttype-tohcpcscoderoleOrd1
Microsoft word tells me there are 197 characters in that name. Holy cow Batman. That’s a long name for an ID.
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Headed to the 2009 MVP Summit
One of the coolest benefits of being an MVP is the annual MVP Summit, which starts today in Seattle.
Last year we had an absolute blast and while some of the CRM MVP's couldn't get the Summit into their schedules this year because Convergence starts on the 9th, there will be a bunch of new CRM MVP faces in the crowd so we should again have a great time, meet great people, and learn a whole bunch of new things.
Our patron and guardian angel, Jim Glass, already has our quality time with the CRM Product Teams scheduled so we'll be well taken care of, as always.
Anyway, even though it's now March, I consider the MVP Summit one of the highlights of the year and a great way to start off 2009.
So, for those of you in Seattle at the Summit or on Campus, I hope to see you this week some time. Otherwise, look for me at the Microsoft booth or community lounge at Convergence in New Orleans next week.
Have a great week.
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MVP Renewed
Happy New Year everyone.
I just received the email confirming that I am an MVP for Dynamics CRM for 2009.
This is the third year I've received the MVP award and it is still one of the greatest accomplishments of my career.
To top that off, I find myself in the most excellent of company, in the other CRM MVPs.
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Happy Thanksgiving
For those of us here in the U.S., today is our Thanksgiving holiday. It's a really good excuse to eat a lot of turkey and otherwise hang out with family and friends.
I wish all of you a happy and safe holiday. For those of you not in the States, have a great weekend.
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Progress message of the day
My main workstation is running Vista and lately I've been having disk-related issues that I am having a hard time tracking down.
While copying one of the Microsoft CRM VM file sets to another computer this afternoon, I encountered the following message:
Hmm. I am not totally sure, but I would bet that waiting another 56 years for this copy to finish is pushing my expectations just a little.
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Happy weekend everyone
It's been a while since I posted anything of relevance so I wanted to say hi to everyone and let you know I'm still alive and kicking and to wish everyone a happy weekend.
I've been heads-down in about three separate CRM or CRM-related projects and haven't had time to write anything new – but I do have things coming.
Being so CRM focused sometimes leaves me out of the loop when it comes to other, development-related matters. Case in point: Just this morning, I was looking at the Visual Studio start page and I see this article:
How Do I: Create a Basic Language Service Using the Managed Babel System?
Which, as everyone knows, is about this:
Create a basic language service by using the Managed Babel System infrastructure provided in the Visual Studio 2008 Software Development Kit (SDK). Incorporate the syntax for your language using the Managed Package Lex Scanner Generator (MPLex) and Managed Package Parser Generator (MPPG) tools and set up and register your language service into the Visual Studio environment. Hilton Giesenow demonstrates how.
Huh?
I think I'll crawl back into my CRM cave and worry about managing my Babel at some point in the future…
Peace out.
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Stupid web site design
I am a huge music fan and watch a lot of videos, from many categories and country music is one of my favorites. That means I watch CMT a lot – and visit CMT.com quite frequently.
Unfortunately, whoever is in charge of their web design is smoking crack – or something….
Take a look at this page:
As a consumer, I am mostly thinking that I'd like to see music videos, when I click on the "music video" page. The above is what I get.
To make things even more confusing, the pictures you see are mostly related to nothing regarding the actual people in the pictures. These are categories – not actual individual music videos.
Which is the whole point to me wasting your time.
If you can't show people what they are actually going to get when they click on a link, or a picture, then why the heck are you even showing it to us? To make matters even worse, even some of their pictures and other links don't actually take you to the song or video in question. They take you to a general "artist" page where you get to select the link yet again…
Note to self, Mr./Ms. Web Designer: Bad thing. Don't do it.
Show people what they expect. Deliver on that expectation, and I think most people will be happy.
PS. The previous site design actually showed music videos on this page…
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SQL 2005 error message of the day (7/22/08)
Wow! I got a really scary error message today after I restarted the SQL server on one of my dev boxes and attempted to hit a CRM instance:
A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 – No process is on the other end of the pipe.)
That looks bad. It looks worse displayed in that ASP.NET 24 point type the unhandled exception page uses. The world is just going to freaking end.
Luckily, the world was saved by me retrying the operation. But, it was a close call. :)
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Going to the Worldwide Partner Conference?
If you're going to the WWPC in Houston next month, drop me a note. mitch at infinite-x dot net.
I'll be there all week so maybe we can meet up in the CRM Community Lounge.
Hopefully, my schedule will not be nearly as hectic as it was at Convergence.
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More humor from web developers
Seen while canceling a web-based time sheet account that I was using for a test:
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