Just a small bit of code placed in just the right place. Sometimes the biggest business benefit is not necessarily the biggest development effort.  Marco has a great post about how to turn on access to LinkedIn within Microsoft Dynamics CRM. A small little button opening a world of possibilities...

For numerous years developers didn't need to worry about the complexity of creating multi-threaded applications in the PC World.  The availability of hardware and operating systems that supported multi-threaded applications just didn't exist. Over the last couple of years this...

For those of you who work within a Feature Driven Development model (FDD) there are a number of great resources on the whole subject area on this website.  

A big shoutout thanks to Daniel Halan  for creating this little toolkit (CRM Configuration Manager)  and for sharing it!!! and thanks to Joel Lindstrom over at Customer Effective  for point it out as something useful to have.

Given our focus on builds and deployments to different environments I found this post by the team over at Inetium of interest. Environment-Aware Custom Workflow Configuration

Alas I received bad news today about duplicate checking. As it turns out if you have duplicate checking set to check on create and update AND you find a duplicate the system does not acknowledge or save your response. Needless to say the system will continue to check for duplicates even if you told it...

We recently had the need to hide a section on a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Form. After review of four or five different options it was decided that this offered the best approach. Why? The number one reasons is because the option supports the need to move code between different environments and...

A few weeks back Duplicate Detection was quite the focus in parts of my world and as per usually someone pointed out that Soundex wasn't an option. Low and Behold - Check out this recent post called "Pimp your Duplicate Detection"

For anyone new to Microsoft Dynamics CRM – This recording is a great start on how to modify the UI without writing a line of code. It also has one or two tips that are helpful for those a bit more experienced.   http://www.xrmvirtual.com/events/uitipsandtricks

The Nuts and Bolts article Outlook Synchronization in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 , which is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center : Outlook synchronization enables Outlook users to view Dynamics CRM information, including contacts, tasks, phone calls, letters, faxes, appointments...