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Top Ten Secrets to a Successful CRM Deployment: Part Two–Process
great blog post from CRM MVP Leon tribe. This list has some great advice on helping to ensure you CRM project is a success.
Here is a post focusing on the other way your project can go
13 signs your CRM project is doomed
Best of the rest
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CRM Plugins – Stopping infinite loops and understanding PluginExecutionContext.Depth
Whilst using Depth to stop a plugin being called from another plugin, I decided to have a read of the CRM SDK to find out more about PluginExecutionContext.Depth
Create or Update through a single request – Upsert in Dynamics CRM 2015 Update 1
The might new and amusingly named Upsert. Very useful but you need to learn about alternative keys and think about the side effects of other plugins being triggered. Good article on the subject to get you started
CRM 2015 – plugin deployment options
Do you know your Plugin deployment options? How about the effects of IISReset? This article talks about the Plugin framework as well. It was written by The Hosk, who is a good friend of mine
Top Ten Secrets to a Successful CRM Deployment: Part Three–Technology
A list of the juicy new features in CRM 2015
Dynamic Form Navigation
Showing you how to change the form dynamically using Javascript
Convert CRM Plugin Message to CRM Alert or Notification When Save Programmatically JavaScript
Interesting, well written and useful article on pushing plugin errors messages into notifications.
new page for Microsoft Dynamics CRM books and videos
Microsoft has got a swanky new page so you can easily find CRM books and videos, which is good for customers.
Improve validation and user experience by using business rules to set default values
Simple idea but using business rules to set default values easily solves an annoying issue with CRM
Assembly versioning in CRM 2011
An old but classic article discussing versioning in CRM plugins/Custom workflows. I bumped into this whilst writing by blog posts this week.
Tips: CRM C# Create Validated Parent and Child Records at Once as one Big Compound using ‘Related Entities’
How to avoid infinite loop errors when a parent case updates children casess
CRM 2013 – Step by Step Update Plugin Tutorial using the CRM 2013 Development Toolkit
A step by step guide to writing a plugin using the CRM developer toolkit
Simple web API preview sample
The Web API is my first glimpse of OData 4
The difference: Xrm.Page.data.refresh() vs Xrm.Utility.openEntityForm(entityName, id) in Practice
What’s the difference between refreshing and reloading? Read the article to find out
programming
Great article and examples of Dependency Inversion Principle – DIP in the Wild
Uncle Bob DIP
Misconceptions about code reuse
I’m Sorry, But Agile Won’t Fix Your Products
High Cohesion and Low Coupling part 1
High Cohesion and Low Coupling part 2
December 2014: From Test Driven Development to Behavioral Driven Design
The 10 Worst Kinds of Software Developers! which one are you?
Other
Office workers – Get up and get active
One man’s year as a nudist
10 Most Common Rookie Mistakes in Public Speaking
Meditation Changes Your Brain for the Better, Even if You’re Not a Monk
Has Consciousness Evolved?
Putting the Greek back into Stoicism
The Three Marriages: Our Relationship With Ourself
PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT BUSINESS BOOK WRITTEN IN THE LAST FIFTY YEARS
Previous top picks
Hosk’s Top CRM Articles of the week – 26th June
Useful Hosk Links
Hosk list Of CRM 2013 Tools
A list and review of CRM 2013 tools, this will probably work in CRM 2015 as well
Hosk’s CRM Developer Articles
A collection of my favourite CRM Developer articles I have written
MB2-703 – CRM 2013 Customization and Configuration Certification Information
All the CRM 2013 content to help you pass the exam
HoskWisdom – Hosk Developer Quotes
Words of Wisdom from the Hosk. I have written over 900 articles, surely I should have said a few memorable things
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