http://blogs.infinite-x.net Knowledge found and lost while working with Microsoft CRM Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:37:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I upgraded by blog site last month, I left out some code that prevented postings from the Meandering category from being distributed via RSS. I put that code back in and this is a test. http://blogs.infinite-x.net/2008/06/29/test-post/ You would think that as a person ages, they would get smarter.  That is how it should be, but unfortunately, that is now how I am. Here is a perfect example: While I didn't throw up, I sure as heck wanted to... http://blogs.infinite-x.net/2008/06/18/things-i-should-try-and-remember/ 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. http://blogs.infinite-x.net/2008/06/18/going-to-the-worldwide-partner-conference/ I have been battling bugs in other people's software all morning when I received and email from 'Kim.' Get your corn really big! Be the center of the world! Be the MAN!   Wow! Now that put me in a better mood.... For the record 'Kim:' I live in ... http://blogs.infinite-x.net/2008/06/12/just-one-of-those-days-61208/ I got a serious case of writers-block this morning.  I'm not sure, but maybe it was caused by showing up to the office at 6:45am on a Saturday.  I dunno. Anyway, I decided to take a break from latest monster invention and browsed around he Internet ... http://blogs.infinite-x.net/2008/06/07/curing-writers-block/ Back in the dark ages, like with CRM 3.0, we were often faced with writing .NET code to provide certain enhanced data manipulation capabilities as either Callouts or Workflow Assemblies.  CRM 4.0 totally changes that mind set - and as a solution developer, you really need to keep that in ... http://blogs.infinite-x.net/2008/06/04/enhancing-crm-4-workflows-vs-plugins/ One of my current projects involves a heavily customized Opportunity form and I was running into the following error messages whenever I attempted to set the value of a custom Attribute which was of a Money type: A currency is required if a value exists in a money field. ... http://blogs.infinite-x.net/2008/06/01/crm-4-currency-calculations/ Over the past several years, I have read and seen multiple references to a practice called Visualization, which is when a person rehearses a physical action by performing the task mentally. Examples that come to mind are the NASA astronaut training program, Olympic athletes, and the Navy's Blue Angels.  ... http://blogs.infinite-x.net/2008/05/30/applying-visualization-to-software-development/ Quite some time ago, I wrote a short article on using the Bit attribute type within CRM. Today, I thought I'd like to take some time to review some tips that may not be totally obvious when you first start working with Bit attributes. The method that you will use to interact ... http://blogs.infinite-x.net/2008/05/22/working-with-crm-bit-fields/ One of my current projects required that we have, more or less, an audit log for completion of tasks.  This can be easily accomplished using a CRM 4.0 workflow, using the following variables: When the workflow is run, it will produce the following results:   In this particular ... http://blogs.infinite-x.net/2008/05/22/crm-40-workflow-adding-a-timestamp-to-a-field/