Cesar de la Torre
Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.
Latest posts
Dynamics Mobile 2008 in Microsoft INNOVATION DAYS Event – Spain (June 3rd & 5th 2008)
I'll deliver a session about "Developing with Dynamics Mobile 2008" in our Microsoft INNOVATION DAYS event. It will be delivered in Madrid (June 3rd) and Barcelona (June 5th). My session content will cover topics like: - Dynamics Mobile 2008 introduction - Dynamics Mobile Sales (Sample Application) - Developing with the Dynamics Mobile Development Framework (How to create TASKLETS, WIZARDS and ORCHESTRATIONS) - Mobile Server (WCF Services, SQL Sync, Servers Architecture, etc.) - Resources Here you can see my Dynamics Mobile 2008 demo app starting: You can find the whole event's age...
Dynamics AX 2009 has been Released!!
So!, we already have Dynamics AX 2009 RTM version!! (It was released yesterday, May 22nd). It is AVAILABLE NOW for download from Partner Source (you need to authenticate as a Dynamics partner): https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/support/selfsupport/productreleases/DynamicsAX2009release.htm The download is a full installation setup, either for new installations or upgrades from previous versions. You can upgrade it from Microsoft Dynamics AX 3.0 Service Pack 4 (or higher) or Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 Service Pack 1 (or higher). AX 2009 is gonna rock! Enjoy!
xRM Whitepaper – Dynamics CRM as development platform for Business Apps
Jason Hunt and Aaron Elder (from Ascentium, they are not from Microsoft) have published a very nice Whitepaper about "xRM" (Dynamics CRM as RAD dev platform for business Apps). Download it from: http://www.ascentium.com/blog/crm/Gallery/Ascentium%20-%20Microsoft%20Dynamics%20CRM%20as%20a%20Business%20Application%20Platform.pdf
Dynamics CRM 4.0 Vertical Accelerator for Healthcare
Microsoft Dynamics CRM has released its Relationship Management Healthcare vertical accelerator. This accelerator, built on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, showcases how Microsoft Dynamics CRM is relevant to customers in the healthcare industry and provides a baseline for partners/customers for further development. These sales enablement tools are released as a part of Microsoft's shared source initiative on Codeplex under the Microsoft Public License. This is the link from where you can download it!: http://www.codeplex.com/crmverticaltemplates/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=13323 The follo...
Great Whitepaper about ‘Developing Business Apps with Dynamics CRM 4.0’
Well, the real name of this whitepaper is "Developing ISV Applications using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0" but I thought it would be clearer with this other title. Many people don't not know what really an ISV is (Independent Software Vendor), and this whitepaper can also be great for any CRM developer/architect. :-) So, this whitepaper has (in a single document) all the technical messages we've been talking about Dynamics CRM during last year (we, as Microsoft DPE), presenting Dynamics CRM 4.0 not only as a CRM product but as a great RAD development platform, for many kind of business apps. In fact, Dynamics CRM ...
Disabling Domain Account Security Policies in Windows Server 2008 DC
Just a tip I always have to do when setting up a Windows Server 2008 VPC (Virtual PC) which is also a DC (Active Directory Domain Controller). As those machines are just for demos or development environment, I do not want to have the Domain account policies which are quite strict, otherwise I'll have to change the password after several days (42 days), using complex passwords, etc. To do so, in your Windows Server 2008 DC (usually a VPC) open the Admin.Tools-->Group Policy Management and go to the Forest-->Domain-->Default Domain Policy. There you can see (within Account policies and password policy) all...
Consuming external WCF Services from Dynamics AX 2009 X++ code (Dynamics AX “5.0”)
I'm gonna talk about a new feature in Dynamics AX 2009 (Dynamics AX "5.0") which is the really powerful possibility we have now about calling/consuming external Web Services or even WCF Services from our X++ code. So, in Dynamics AX 4.0, we could execute external Web Services thanks to the AIF outbound web service adapters, but we couldn't really consume those external Web Services from our X++ code... You can read a pretty good posting about that matter (AX 4.0 AIF and external Web Services) here: http://blogs.msdn.com/dpokluda/archive/2006/10/03/Outbound-web-service-_2800_AIF_2900_.aspx But the good news are th...
CRM 4.0 Plugin Registration Tool V2.0
If you want to develop CRM 4.0 Plugings, there's a tool called "Plugin Registration Tool 2.0" which can help you a lot when you want to register it into CRM Server. So, PluginRegistration tool is an enhanced version of the tool that is published within Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK. You can download "PluginRegistration tool " from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/crmplugin Also, there are sample plugings you can download from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/crmpluginsamples So!, when you download it, what you get is the full source-code Visual Studio project for this tool (so you could investigate how i...
Microsoft Dynamics Mobile version 1.1 has been released!!
Microsoft Dynamics™ Mobile, version 1.1 has been released and is available in PartnerSource. With the new release of Microsoft Dynamics™ Mobile, Microsoft Dynamics we now have the opportunity to use the Mobile Development Tools to build end-to-end solutions for Microsoft Dynamics, create vertical applications quickly. It is based on several high level development concepts like Tasklets, Orchestrations and Wizards, therefore it reduces the application development time for mobile implementations (compared with a regular .NET Compact Framework mobile development) Dynamics Mobile 1.1 supports Microsoft Dynamic NAV...