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Microsoft Dynamics CRM JScript Export Tool

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:04:56 GMT

I recently had to transfer several customizations to a different CRM installation. While Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers an export and import functionality, in this case I just wanted to select specific client side customizations. However, manually grabbing all jscript code is a little bit time consuming. Instead, I wrote a few lines of code to export all jscript code without annoying interaction.

The code is pretty straight forward, so feel free to modify. You can download the VS 2008 project here: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Jscript Export Tool

Before you start this tool, you have to change the app.config according to your CRM installation:

After running the tool, all client side jscript will be stored at the declared output folder.

The result will be a list of all entities containing jscript separated by event type and further by form and field events.

Hopefully you like this tool. In the final stage of this tool, it will be even possible to write changes back to Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

CRM 4.0 RTM VPC, Tools and Sample Data

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:55:00 GMT

Thanks to Michael Rich the new VPC Image is now available as a download. In addition there is a great demonstration tool, which helps you to prepare your demo environment and demo data. The VPC image is a one computer setup including Microsoft CRM 4.0 and associated Microsoft Dynamics CRM clients for Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

The base language is English and the following language packs are already installed: German, French, Danish and Dutch, However, you can easily add other language packs by downloading them here. Beside the basic infrastructure components the image contains Microsoft Office Professional 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Performance Point Server and Microsoft Office Communication Server to help you to demo the overall Microsoft value proposition.

But please keep in mind: Much more important than just a good demo platform are your skills to prepare and execute a software demo. There is fortunately a good book, which explains the art of demonstrating software in a very impressive way. By using the right demoing methods and by avoiding common pitfalls you can easily improve the quality of your software demonstrations and win more customers.

Learn more about this great book at amazon: Demonstrating to Win!

Best regards from Whistler

Product keys v4.0 available on Microsoft TechNet

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:19:13 GMT

In case you haven't noticed: I just stumbled upon the product keys on TechNet. It looks like they are now available.

Updated Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:33:00 GMT

Via E-Mail from Amy:

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK download package has been updated. Version 4.0.1 includes several important changes:

The Plug-in walkthrough in the CHM has been updated to match the readme that is included in the SDK\Walkthroughs folder.
The Readme file in the SDK\tools\deployworkflowtool folder has been corrected.
Additional sample code has been added in the Scripting Sample Code topic.
New content has been added to the URL Addressable Forms topic.

CRM 4.0 plug-in registration tool

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:04:00 GMT

Great posting from Jonas about an update regarding the CRM 4.0 plug-in registration tool. Continue reading: http://blogs.msdn.com/jonasd/archive/2008/01/12/access-denied-when-using-pluginregistration-tool.aspx

Plug-in development and registration is a much more powerfull in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 compared to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK ships with two tools helping you to register your plug-ins. Jonas added a smart improvement, he simple added a new property and once checked default credentionals are used when connection to discovery and crm webservice.

Localization Wave 1 has been completed

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:38:00 GMT

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team just announced that ALL of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 WAVE 1 Languages (English, German, Spanish, French and Dutch) are now released and available for download! This includes both the language version plus the language packs. Wave 2 will be Simplified Chinese, Danish, Finnish, and Italian. The delivery date for all Wave 2 languages is currently scheduled for January 29th. We will continue to trickle out languages as they are available.

Great work!

PS: Some of you asked, if everything is fine with me. Don't worry, this is my last boring-list-of-download-posting, before I will write about using Silverlight to visualize relationships in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

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90-Day Trial Version Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Readme
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Language Pack Readme
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 for Microsoft Office Outlook (For On-Premise and Hosted Editions) Readme
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Data Migration Manager Readme
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-mail Router (On-Premise and Hosted Editions) Readme
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Implementation Guide

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Dutch Language Pack available

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:15:00 GMT

Direct link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=nl&FamilyID=50761e58-6040-4cf3-853a-f5ab535f7194

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live announced

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:20:00 GMT

Bill Patterson just announced Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live:
http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2008/01/09/choice-begins-today.aspx

First language packs now available

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:04:00 GMT

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team today announced that the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 English, German and Spanish language packs are now available for download.

Book about Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:44:00 GMT

Via Philip. Mike Snyder and Jim Steger are finishing their new book about Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 titled Working with Microsoft Dynamics(tm) Crm 4.0, Second Edition (Pro - Developer) You can pre-order a copy of the book on amazon.com