Cesar de la Torre
Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (aka. Titan) has just been released!!
Microsoft has just released our Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, which can be installed On-Premise, On-Hosting and as S+S (CRM-Live is is offered only in U.S. and Canada). The new version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, formerly code-named “Titan,” has been completed and released to manufacturing, Microsoft Corp. announced today. The new version is offered under two product names: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 for on-premise and partner-hosted deployments and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live for Microsoft-hosted deployment. Designed with a single unified-code base for both on-premise and on-demand deployments. You can see more inf...
ISV Innovation Days Event in Spain!! (December 18th & 20th 2007)
Next week we're going to deliver a special event for ISVs, which is called "ISV Innovation Days" (December-2007). We'll deliver it in Madrid (Dec.18th 2007) and in Barcelona (Dec.20th 2007) I'll deliver the following two sessions: 1.- "Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in .NET 3.5": Windows Communication Foundation, Workflow Foundation and Workflow-Services (SILVER). 2.- "Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (Titan) as a Development platform": Customization, CRM workflow, Plugins, CRM Web-Services, Reports, etc. You can see the event's information and registration here (beware that it's in Spanish): Info: http://...
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit
There is a very nice training kit (which I'm using quite a lot) about the new Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5. It covers most of all the new .NET 3.5 features, like WPF, WCF, Workflow, Workflow-Services (SILVER), LINQ, C# 3.0, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, etc. I beleive it's been created/delivered by Microsoft DPE. :-) You can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8BDAA836-0BBA-4393-94DB-6C3C4A0C98A1&displaylang=en
How to deploy your own ASP.NET application within the same Dynamics CRM 4.0 IIS WebSite
There is a common issue when trying to deploy your own ASP.NET application within the same CRM 4.0 IIS WebSite. I mean, If you just go to IIS Manager and create a new ASP.NET app (kind of a virtual directory) for your custom application, you’ll see that you cannot access to your custom application from IE because Titan is running a .NET HttpModule (similar to the older ISAPI Filters built with C++ :-)). So that .NET HttpModule is re-writing the URL depending of the organization (default organization normally.). This is a normal execution because of the multi-tenancy capability of Titan and that is why you are not...
Developing high level workflows in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Titan (Web Editor)
In Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 'Titan' we can choose to develop workflows among two types of workflows, but both of them are internally based on WF (Windows Workflows Foundation, which is part of .NET 3.x). So, we can choose between the following: - High level workflows with CRM Web client as development environment: o It is suitable for business administrators who want to create basic workflows - Low level workflows with Visual Studio and WF as development environment: o It is su...
How to change the logo image in Dynamics CRM 4.0 Titan
This is an easy one!, but in any case, it is quite useful if you do not know how to find it. :-) So, the default logo image is the following: 1.-The image file is located in the following place:C:\Program Files\Microsoft CRM Server\CRMWeb\_imgs\masthead.jpgYou could copy another image with the same name within that folder. 2.-Also, you could change the .CSS definition, which is a TD, within:C:\Program Files\Microsoft CRM Server\CRMWeb\_common\styles\global-dynamic-styles.css.aspx The TD name is:TD.ms-crm-MastHead-LogoThen, you could change the name of the image's file within this TD definition. (in case you wa...
Supported platform in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (Titan)
So!, the following is a summary of the supported platform for TITAN, as I've been told by the product group :-) Server platform: - Supported Windows Server 2003 & Windows Server 2008!! :-) - Supported Exchage Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007 - Supported SQL Server 2005 (x32 & x64) and SQL Server 2008!! :-) --> Note that SQL Server 2000 is no longer supported (for Dynamics CRM 4.0) Development Platform: - Supported Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008!! :-) (I hope we wont have any change on this..) Client Platform: - Supported Windows XP ...
VPC of Dynamics CRM 4.0 Titan CTP3 (Virtual PC image) available to all Dynamics partners !!
We have released a Dynamics CRM 4.0 Titan CTP3 VPC (Virtual PC image) for any Dynamics partner to download via PartnerSource (requires login). PartnerSource is a portal available to partners who focus on Microsoft Dynamics and related business products. If you are an ISV partner you should contact me to ask me to invite you to join Metro. Metro is the early access program we run in Developer and Platform Evangelism. It'll get you access to the bits as well as early adopter product free support and even free training. Link for download: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: Virtual...
New Key technologies and functionalities in CRM 4.0 (“Titan”)
Well!, so these are the key new stuff in CRM 4.0 ("Titan")!!: - CRM 4.0 Workflow based on WF (Windows Workflow Foundation). This is a huge improvement and a great new from the development point of view. WF is a base development technology which is part of .NET 3.x (which is basically .NET 2.0 plus WF, WCF, WPF and CardSpace) with a great development visual environment based on Visual Studio. WF is the unification of all Microsoft workflow technologies, so all high level Microsoft workflows are going to be based on WF (Windows Workflow Foundation). Historically, Microsoft had many different types of workflo...