Friday, August 28, 2009

eService Accelerator for CRM Online - Video


Its a very good video for eService Accelerator for CRM. You can find it here.

Update Rollup 6 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (KB 970148)


Microsoft has release rollup 6for CRM 4. KB952858 can be downloaded here.

This is a tested, cumulative set of updates for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. It includes performance enhancements that are packaged together for easy deployment.

Please note that if you have customized Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Help files, back up your customized files before you install this update !!!

Overview
Microsoft has released Update Rollup 6 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Server, Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Data Migration Manager, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Language Pack, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-mail Router.

For more information about this release, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 970148:
Update Rollup 6 is available for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

To maintain parity between the application components of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, this update rollup includes packages for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Server, Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Data Migration Manager, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Language Packs, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-mail Router.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

New Visual Studio Templates for MS CRM


The CRM SDK version 4.0.9 included three Visual Studio templates to help speed up your CRM-related development efforts:

Available Templates

  • Plug-in
  • Workflow activity
  • CRM Add-on web page

The templates may be found in the visualstudiotemplates folder when you unzip the SDK package.
Each template has an accompanying readme.doc file with instructions for installation and usage notes.

Installation
Installation is fairly straightforward, just perform these steps:

1) Navigate to the Visual Studio Folder:
%Documents and Settings%\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#

2) Create a folder called CRM.

3) Copy each of the three template’s .zip file to the CRM folder.

The templates should now be installed and ready to use.