Channel 9 - Entries tagged with CRM Accelerators Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with CRM Accelerators http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/crm+accelerators Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/crm+accelerators en Fri, 24 May 2013 17:56:30 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 17:56:30 GMT Rev9 10 1 25 Dynamics CRM 2011 Validation Framework - Setup and Configuration Walkthrough @devkeydet walks you through the functionality of his regular expression validation framework sample for Dynamics CRM 2011.  The sample shows you the foundational pieces of creating a custom, reusable validation framework for CRM forms/entities that allows you to define the validation rule through the CRM UI and have the validation execute both client-side using JavaScript and server-side through an "all entities" plugin.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dynamics-CRM-2011-Validation-Framework-Setup-and-Configuration-Walkthrough @devkeydet walks you through the functionality of his regular expression validation framework sample for Dynamics CRM 2011.  The sample shows you the foundational pieces of creating a custom, reusable validation framework for CRM forms/entities that allows you to define the validation rule through the CRM UI and have the validation execute both client-side using JavaScript and server-side through an "all entities" plugin. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dynamics-CRM-2011-Validation-Framework-Setup-and-Configuration-Walkthrough Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:00:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dynamics-CRM-2011-Validation-Framework-Setup-and-Configuration-Walkthrough keydet keydet 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dynamics-CRM-2011-Validation-Framework-Setup-and-Configuration-Walkthrough/rss CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics CRM Dynamics CRM Online Dynamics CRM Platform Microsoft Dynamics CRM Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online CRM 2011 CRM Portal Accelerators & Advanced Developer Extensions - Part 3 Part1 & Part2 in WMV (High).

CRM SDK 4.0.12 that was released as part of the May 2010 Service Update includes some wonderful tools to simplify CRM development. One of the great benefits with this new SDK is the ability to switch your application from CRM on-premises to Online or partner-hosted with just one line of configuration file change and no re-compilation. The new SDK includes a code-gen utility that generates classes so that you can have strongly typed objects with relationship mapping in C#. As a result, developers get rich intellisense support within Visual Studio even for your custom entities. With this new SDK you can now use Language INtegrated Queries (LINQ) to write your queries against CRM. LINQ enables you to easily write complex CRM queries in an easier SQL-like way and as a result, the amount of CRM code a developer writes is largely reduced.

Head over to http://msdn.microsoft.com/dynamics/crm/ to download the new SDK and start coding right away!

Thanks,
-Girish Raja
http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr
http://twitter.com/girishr

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-3 Part 3 of 3. Check out Part1 & Part2 in WMV (High).CRM SDK 4.0.12 that was released as part of the May 2010 Service Update includes some wonderful tools to simplify CRM development. One of the great benefits with this new SDK is the ability to switch your application from CRM on-premises to Online or partner-hosted with just one line of configuration file change and no re-compilation. The new SDK includes a code-gen utility that generates classes so that you can have strongly typed objects with relationship mapping in C#. As a result, developers get rich intellisense support within Visual Studio even for your custom entities. With this new SDK you can now use Language INtegrated Queries (LINQ) to write your queries against CRM. LINQ enables you to easily write complex CRM queries in an easier SQL-like way and as a result, the amount of CRM code a developer writes is largely reduced. Head over to http://msdn.microsoft.com/dynamics/crm/ to download the new SDK and start coding right away!Thanks,-Girish Rajahttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishrhttp://twitter.com/girishr 961 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-3 Sat, 29 May 2010 18:01:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-3 Girish Raja Girish Raja 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-3/RSS .NET .NET Framework ASP.NET CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics CRM CRM Portal Accelerators & Advanced Developer Extensions - Part 2 Part 2 of 3. Check out Part1 & Part3 in WMV (High).

Let’s take a deeper look at the portal accelerator this time. The new portal accelerator release also includes the updated Event management, eService & partner relationship management (PRM) accelerators. Portal accelerator v2 has plenty of new features such as content management, in-place editing, Windows Live ID (WLID) integration, improved calendar and service scheduling engine, basic Web-to-Lead functionality, integration with CRM marketing list and much more. Yet, the new accelerator is backwards compatibility with the first version of portal accelerator. The external portals themselves are flexible enough that you can deploy them in your own web server or on Windows Azure.

In this video Reuben Krippner walks us through some of the benefits and usage scenarios of the new portal accelerator.

As always you can download the accelerators at http://crmaccelerators.codeplex.com/

Thanks,
-Girish Raja
http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr
http://twitter.com/girishr

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-2 Part 2 of 3. Check out Part1 & Part3 in WMV (High).Let’s take a deeper look at the portal accelerator this time. The new portal accelerator release also includes the updated Event management, eService & partner relationship management (PRM) accelerators. Portal accelerator v2 has plenty of new features such as content management, in-place editing, Windows Live ID (WLID) integration, improved calendar and service scheduling engine, basic Web-to-Lead functionality, integration with CRM marketing list and much more. Yet, the new accelerator is backwards compatibility with the first version of portal accelerator. The external portals themselves are flexible enough that you can deploy them in your own web server or on Windows Azure. In this video Reuben Krippner walks us through some of the benefits and usage scenarios of the new portal accelerator. As always you can download the accelerators at http://crmaccelerators.codeplex.com/Thanks,-Girish Rajahttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishrhttp://twitter.com/girishr 1329 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-2 Sat, 29 May 2010 17:58:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-2 Girish Raja Girish Raja 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-2/RSS .NET .NET Framework ASP.NET CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics CRM CRM Portal Accelerators & Advanced Developer Extensions - Part 1 Part2 & Part3 in WMV (High).

In this video I chat with Reuben Krippner, a Senior Product Manager in the CRM product planning team about the exciting CRM Accelerator release & SDK update coming out in May 2010. Accelerators are templates built by the CRM team to help you easily build CRM extensions thereby accelerating the value you derive out of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

We talk about the next generation Portal Accelerators that will be released in conjunction with May 2010 Service Update for CRM Online. It’s worth nothing that these new accelerators works with all CRM deployment models (On-premises, CRM Online or partner hosted CRM). The external portals themselves are flexible enough that you can deploy them in your own web server or on Windows Azure.

This release also includes a CRM SDK refresh which brings new rapid development tools that allow developers to take advantage of the latest .NET features such as LINQ, ADO.NET data services, etc.

Thanks,
-Girish Raja
http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr
http://twitter.com/girishr

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-1 Part 1 of 3. Check out&nbsp;Part2 &amp; Part3 in WMV (High).In this video I chat with Reuben Krippner, a Senior Product Manager in the CRM product planning team about the exciting CRM Accelerator release &amp; SDK update coming out in May 2010. Accelerators are templates built by the CRM team to help you easily build CRM extensions thereby accelerating the value you derive out of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. We talk about the next generation Portal Accelerators that will be released in conjunction with May 2010 Service Update for CRM Online. It’s worth nothing that these new accelerators works with all CRM deployment models (On-premises, CRM Online or partner hosted CRM). The external portals themselves are flexible enough that you can deploy them in your own web server or on Windows Azure. This release also includes a CRM SDK refresh which brings new rapid development tools that allow developers to take advantage of the latest .NET features such as LINQ, ADO.NET data services, etc. Thanks,-Girish Rajahttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishrhttp://twitter.com/girishr 560 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-1 Fri, 07 May 2010 00:08:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-1 Girish Raja Girish Raja 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-1/RSS .NET .NET Framework ASP.NET CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics CRM CRM Accelerators: Analytics Reuben decided to take control of things on this channel9 video as we discuss about the Analytics accelerator. <Alert> we recorded this video really early in the development cycle for this accelerator. There are far more cool capabilities and reports in the final version of this accelerator than what we see in this video. </Alert>

The analytics accelerator provides a set of Performance Dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for analyzing the data residing within the CRM platform. It utilizes SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) for creating OLAP cubes. SSAS is also used here for creating predictive analysis with some fully functional samples. The analytics accelerator will work with SQL Server 2005 with some components enhanced to take advantage of SQL Server 2008.

Check out more Channel9 videos on CRM Accelerators here and please visit http://www.codeplex.com/crmaccelerators to download the accelerators.

Happy coding!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Analytics Reuben decided to take control of things on this channel9 video as we discuss about the Analytics accelerator. &lt;Alert&gt; we recorded this video really early in the development cycle for this accelerator.&nbsp;There are far more cool capabilities and reports in the final version of this accelerator than what we see in this video. &lt;/Alert&gt; The analytics accelerator provides a set of Performance Dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for analyzing the data residing within the CRM platform. It utilizes SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) for creating OLAP cubes. SSAS is also used here for creating predictive analysis with some fully functional samples. The analytics accelerator will work with SQL Server 2005 with some components enhanced to take advantage of SQL Server 2008. Check out more Channel9 videos on&nbsp;CRM Accelerators here and please visit&nbsp;http://www.codeplex.com/crmaccelerators to download the accelerators. Happy coding! 684 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Analytics Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:10:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Analytics Girish Raja Girish Raja 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Analytics/RSS CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics CRM Dynamics CRM Platform SQL Server SQL Server 2008 SQL Server Analysis Services SQL Server Reporting Services CRM Accelerators: eService (ASP.NET Portal) eService accelerator allows developers to easily create self-service customer portals built on top of ASP.NET. This accelerator utilizes an ASP.NET starter kit and several components of the ASP.NET framework including the membership provider for authentication. The out of the box functionality of eService includes the ability for customers to create cases, schedule and manage service appointments, search through KB articles, etc all from within the website.

Don’t be fooled by the name “eService”, as underneath the covers, there is an ASP.NET control suite for CRM. Each of the ASP.NET form you saw in this video is a customizable ASP.NET user control and all of its properties and settings are derived from the CRM metadata. You can hook up these controls to any entity within the CRM system and configure them fairly easily.

I’m sure this accelerator will jump start CRM development for a lot of ASP.NET developers and vice versa.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-eService-ASPNET-Portal eService accelerator allows developers to easily create self-service customer portals built on top of ASP.NET. This accelerator utilizes an ASP.NET starter kit and several components of the ASP.NET framework including the membership provider for authentication. The out of the box functionality of eService includes the ability for customers to create cases, schedule and manage service appointments, search through KB articles, etc all from within the website. Don’t be fooled by the name “eService”, as underneath the covers, there is an ASP.NET control suite for CRM. Each of the ASP.NET form you saw in this video is a customizable ASP.NET user control and all of its properties and settings are derived from the CRM metadata. You can hook up these controls to any entity within the CRM system and configure them fairly easily. I’m sure this accelerator will jump start CRM development for a lot of ASP.NET developers and vice versa. 741 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-eService-ASPNET-Portal Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:58:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-eService-ASPNET-Portal Girish Raja Girish Raja 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-eService-ASPNET-Portal/RSS ASP.NET CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics CRM Dynamics CRM Platform CRM Accelerators: Event Management The event management accelerator allows you to plan and manage events and logistics through Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This front end portal of this accelerator is actually built using an ASP.NET starter kit. Behind the scenes, CRM plug-ins and workflows drives the business logic like registration, waitlists, notifications etc.

The data model and business logic that Reuben has designed for this is very comprehensive and is a result of working with several event organizers. If you’re looking at building an event management solution, this accelerator will reduce a lot of brainstorming & revisions that you have to do otherwise.

Given the design of this, I’m beginning to wonder if this accelerator could very well become a Content Management System (CMS) for event planning. What do you think?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Event-Management The event management accelerator allows you to plan and manage events and logistics through Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This front end portal of this accelerator is actually built using an ASP.NET starter kit. Behind the scenes, CRM plug-ins and workflows drives the business logic like registration, waitlists, notifications etc. The data model and business logic that Reuben has designed for this is very comprehensive and is a result of working with several event organizers. If you’re looking at building an event management solution, this accelerator will reduce a lot of brainstorming &amp; revisions that you have to do otherwise. Given the design of this, I’m beginning to wonder if this accelerator could very well become a Content Management System (CMS) for event planning. What do you think? 601 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Event-Management Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:55:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Event-Management Girish Raja Girish Raja 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Event-Management/RSS ASP.NET CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics CRM Dynamics CRM Platform CRM Accelerators: Notifications (RSS) CRM notifications accelerator allows you to expose CRM business data by creating Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds.

Users can subscribe to any saved views within CRM as a feed. This allows you to have a channel where you pull information instead of being pushed to you from the server. These RSS feeds accessible via a variety of RSS readers including Outlook, Mobile phone, 3rd Party Readers, etc. It is also worth noting that this capability can be used to easily create Vista Gadget for CRM by using the generic RSS gadget that Windows Vista ships with.

This is just a tip of iceberg on how RSS can be used with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Since the accelerator ships with the source code as well, developers can further extend this or create new and interesting applications based on RSS & CRM.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Notifications-RSS CRM notifications accelerator&nbsp;allows you to expose CRM business data by creating Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. Users can subscribe to any saved views within CRM as a feed. This allows you to have a channel where you pull information instead of being pushed to you from the server. These RSS feeds accessible via a variety of RSS readers including Outlook, Mobile phone, 3rd Party Readers, etc. It is also worth noting that this capability can be used to easily create Vista Gadget for CRM by using the generic RSS gadget that Windows Vista ships with. This is just a tip of iceberg on how RSS can be used with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Since the accelerator ships with the source code as well, developers can further extend this or create new and interesting applications based on RSS &amp; CRM. 368 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Notifications-RSS Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:32:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Notifications-RSS Girish Raja Girish Raja 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Notifications-RSS/RSS CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics Dynamics CRM Dynamics CRM Platform RSS CRM Accelerators: Enterprise Search In this video, we take a look at the Enterprise Search Accelerator for CRM and see how SharePoint and CRM can complement each other in creating business solutions.

The enterprise search accelerator allows Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) customers to view and search for Microsoft Dynamics CRM data directly from their SharePoint portals.

Additionally, the technology, Business Data Catalog (BDC), and techniques used with this accelerator can be employed to surface data from other line of business applications to further enrich the SharePoint portal.

BDC makes it easy for people to connect to, find, and act on information stored in structured line-of-business systems (such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM) by using a declarative framework to securely integrate them into search results. With BDC you can configure actionable audience-specific portals, dashboards and mash-up interfaces for this data without writing any code.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Enterprise-Search In this video, we take a look at the Enterprise Search Accelerator for CRM and see how SharePoint and CRM can complement each other in creating business solutions. The enterprise search accelerator allows Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) customers to view and search for Microsoft Dynamics CRM data directly from their SharePoint portals. Additionally, the technology, Business Data Catalog (BDC), and techniques used with this accelerator can be employed to surface data from other line of business applications to further enrich the SharePoint portal. BDC makes it easy for people to connect to, find, and act on information stored in structured line-of-business systems (such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM) by using a declarative framework to securely integrate them into search results. With BDC you can configure actionable audience-specific portals, dashboards and mash-up interfaces for this data without writing any code. 1025 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Enterprise-Search Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:33:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Enterprise-Search Girish Raja Girish Raja 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Enterprise-Search/RSS Accelerators BDC CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics MOSS Search CRM Accelerators: An Introduction with Reuben Krippner Few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to interview Reuben Krippner from the CRM team. Reuben has been working very hard for the last several months to release CRM Accelerators. In this short video, Reuben gives us an overview of the Accelerators program and we chat about how Accelerators will evolve in the future.

Update: Microsoft Partners can download the accelerators bits and related information at the below links: 

http://www.codeplex.com/crmaccelerators
https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/newsevents/news/MD_CRM_Accelerators

Stay tuned for more videos on Accelerators as Reuben and I drill into the technical details of each accelerator.

Thanks,
-Girish Raja.
http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-An-Introduction-with-Reuben-Krippner Few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to interview&nbsp;Reuben Krippner from the CRM team. Reuben has been working very hard for the last several months to release CRM Accelerators. In this short video, Reuben gives us an overview of the Accelerators program and we chat about how Accelerators will evolve in the future. Update: Microsoft Partners can download the accelerators bits and related information at the below links:&nbsp; http://www.codeplex.com/crmaccelerators https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/newsevents/news/MD_CRM_Accelerators Stay tuned for more videos on Accelerators as Reuben and I drill into the technical details of each accelerator. Thanks, -Girish Raja. http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr 724 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-An-Introduction-with-Reuben-Krippner Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:22:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-An-Introduction-with-Reuben-Krippner Girish Raja Girish Raja 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-An-Introduction-with-Reuben-Krippner/RSS Accelerators CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics