Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts

WPC 2010 Partner Awards

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:25:42 GMT

Conference gala is certainly here. The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 2010) is coming to Washington, D.C. this year on July 11-15, 2010. If you are building some great solutions on Microsoft technologies, make sure you nominate your organization...(read more)

Get Ready for Convergence 2010

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:08:10 GMT

Convergence 2010 , the premier Microsoft Dynamics conference is here shortly (April 24-27) and this year the event is organized a little differently, beginning on a weekend and with a virtual partner day. If you are thinking about attending Convergence...(read more)

Industry Demo Virtual Machines for CRM 4.0

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:27:15 GMT

The Dynamics Demo team has just released four virtual machines and corresponding demo script for CRM 4.0 to demo to the following industries. Public Sector : Municipal government and citizen interaction Financial Services :Wealth management Manufacturing...(read more)

Silverlight & SharePoint coming at you fast

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:28:00 GMT

If you are a CRM developer, there are quite a few beta technologies coming fast your way and you better be ready. First off, SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 are really great products to watch out for and if you haven’t had the time to play with it yet...(read more)

Multi monitor support in Remote Desktop

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:22:11 GMT

I just had one of those eureka moments and had to blog about it right away. For years that I thought remote desktop would just take up one monitor so I never used it for programming on a remote machine or anything like that. But I just realized that you...(read more)

xRM ISV Case Study: CSSI

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:53:25 GMT

The solution that CSSI built on xRM is a great evidence on how developers can rapidly innovate and at the same time minimize risk by building on a proven platform. CSSI specializes in creating software to help companies with an insurance business model...(read more)

xRM ISV Case Study: Spenta

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:39:58 GMT

The case study that I’ll be showcasing today is a unique one because Spenta Consulting not only built a nice solution for the much needed public sector industry but also released most of the IP as an open source project you can download at http://csp...(read more)

xRM ISV Case Study: Peak 15 Systems

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:02:24 GMT

Like climbers summiting a wind-swept mountain on little oxygen, tour operators often face harsh business conditions and work long hours. PEAK 15 Systems, named after the geographical survey name for Mount Everest, aims to guide tour operators to business...(read more)

xRM ISV Case Study: Client Profiles

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:57:19 GMT

This week I’ll be showcasing some of the Independent software Vendors (ISVs) that have built industry vertical applications using xRM. Today we’ll take a look at Client Profiles' legal practice management software. Powerful Application Framework Saves...(read more)

Read and Recommended: Striving for Greatness in All You Do

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:50:32 GMT

Recently I ran across an article about doing research and it affected so much that I wanted to share with you all. I would call this a required reading for any developer/engineer out there. The article is A Stroke of Genius: Striving for Greatness in...(read more)

xRM Acceleration Lab from 12/14/09 - 12/18/09 in Chicago

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:37:35 GMT

<Cross-posting from Sanjay Jain’s blog entry > We are ready to host our 1 st xRM Acceleration Lab from 14 th Dec’09 to 18 th Dec’09 at Microsoft Technology Center, Chicago, IL . This is an exclusive event tailored for leading industry ISVs. We would...(read more)

PDC - Phone Company CRM & Azure Demo

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:18:20 GMT

Here is the full video of the “Phone Company” demo that shows the integration of Dynamics CRM “5”, AppFabric Service Bus and Windows Azure....(read more)

3 xRM sessions at PDC09

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:53:46 GMT

Just found out that Barry Givens and Nikhil Hasija are doing another xRM session at PDC09 . So that brings the total tally of xRM sessions to three! It might sound very low but this year PDC is only 3 days and almost the entire mornings on Day1 and Day2...(read more)

Dynamics CRM at PDC09

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:26:36 GMT

On November 17 the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) kicks off in Los Angeles and xRM & Microsoft Dynamics CRM will be there to make sure you have a good show. For those who don’t know what PDC is, it is the definitive Microsoft conference...(read more)

Windows 7 RTM version available for MSDN subscribers

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:31:55 GMT

Today the first public release of Windows 7 will be available to all MSDN Subscribers. I’m truly excited about Windows 7 as it a game changing platform in many aspects. Today, you will be able to download all Windows 7 Client (x86 and x64) Retail and...(read more)

PDC 09 is on. And yes, xRM will be served!

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:15:43 GMT

Get ready for the coolest developer event on the planet. Coming to Los Angeles again, PDC09 will be held from Nov 17th – 19th 2009. I had a blast at last PDC and I really look forward for this year’s event. One of the reasons I really look forward is...(read more)

A simple definition of Windows Azure

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:02:22 GMT

Here is an interesting video that’s informative as well. It’s Friday evening after all , so chill out and enjoy this really nice & simple video that Steve Marx created to explain “What is Windows Azure?” with simple terms and hand drawn sketches....(read more)

Check out the Dynamics CRM Twibe

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:36:58 GMT

I was really surprised when my twitter account http://twitter.com/girishr had a large number of new followers over the weekend. Now I know why. After I caught up with my RSS feeds, I realized Menno did a great job of compiling the “influential” Microsoft...(read more)

Azure Pricing announced at WPC

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:49:29 GMT

Today, at WPC, we announced the business and partner model for the Windows Azure platform. Here are few highlights from the announcement. Commercial availability at PDC 2009 in November. SQL Azure will be available as a cloud-based relational database...(read more)

Dynamics Duo: Wide World Importers Demo

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:25:26 GMT

Ben and I took some time to chat about this really neat demo that shows how you can combine the Microsoft Web Platform with Dynamics CRM to quickly build and deploy self-service solutions. This is a 5-part “Dynamics Duo” video series and you can...(read more)

Dynamics Duo Rides again

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:40:17 GMT

I’m sure many of you will remember the “conference” demo that we showed in the Business Action Virtual Tour and also from the demo that Ben did in Convergence keynote last year. Recently Ben and I had the opportunity to sit down in B20 and chat about...(read more)

Make sure you have the new CRM 4.0 VPC

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:02:54 GMT

The CRM VPC available on download.microsoft.com has been a wonderful resource for not just demos but development as well. I’m sure many developers are using it for building their prototypes and in some cases active product development. Note that the CRM...(read more)

XRMUG Presentation on Using CRM 4.0 & Windows Azure

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:48:17 GMT

Tomorrow Shan McArthur, Ben Riga and I are presenting a webcast for XRM virtual user group. It is a basic 100-level session with some interesting demos on using CRM 4.0 and Windows Azure in the context of self service portals. When: May 28, 2009 (Thu...(read more)

CRM Customizations compatibility across Update Rollups

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:53:19 GMT

Today, I had a simple question. Are the customizations schema (the exported .xml file) compatible across different update CRM 4.0 update rollups? Meaning, if I export a set of customizations (.xml) from a server that has UR2 (Update Rollup 2) installed...(read more)

Business Action Virtual Tour On Demand

Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:32:32 GMT

Last week I had the opportunity to present four webcasts as part of the Business Action Virtual Tour (BAVT) wherein we discussed about building line of business applications using the CRM (XRM) platform and how you can extend it to create compelling experiences...(read more)