Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

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Great Whitepaper about ‘Developing Business Apps with Dynamics CRM 4.0’

May 14, 2008 May 14, 2008 05/14/08
Cesar De la Torre
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 ...

How to deploy your own ASP.NET application within the same Dynamics CRM 4.0 IIS WebSite

November 14, 2007 Nov 14, 2007 11/14/07
Cesar De la Torre
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 ...

How to change the logo image in Dynamics CRM 4.0 Titan

October 31, 2007 Oct 31, 2007 10/31/07
Cesar De la Torre
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: (image) 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, ...

Supported platform in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (Titan)

October 21, 2007 Oct 21, 2007 10/21/07
Cesar De la Torre
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!! :-)   &...

VPC of Dynamics CRM 4.0 Titan CTP3 (Virtual PC image) available to all Dynamics partners !!

October 9, 2007 Oct 9, 2007 10/9/07
Cesar De la Torre
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 ...

New Key technologies and functionalities in CRM 4.0 (“Titan”)

October 4, 2007 Oct 4, 2007 10/4/07
Cesar De la Torre
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 ...

CTP3 release of Titan: CRM 4.0 “Titan” Gets Nearer to Launch!!

September 4, 2007 Sep 4, 2007 09/4/07
Cesar De la Torre
As I read in Ben's blog, we already have a new Titan's CTP. It is the CTP3!! :-) So there's no so much time until CRM 4.0 will be realeased. If you are an ISV company (Independent Software Vendor & Development company) in Spain, and you are interested in CRM 4.0 (Titan), talk with me!!. We have a new ISV-Partner program form Early-...

CRM 4.0 (Titan) Server-Side programming: Creating custom ASPX pages and consuming Titan’s Web-Services

August 9, 2007 Aug 9, 2007 08/9/07
Cesar De la Torre
I'm doing several Titan labs (CRM 4.0 labs), so I'm going to write a posting about what I'm doing. It is always interesting archiving this kind of 'HOW TOs'.  So!, I'm gonna create a plain new custom ASPX page (using Visual Studio 2005) where we're going to allow updates to several custom entities I've got. The business purpose for ...