Here is the full video of the “Phone Company” demo that shows the integration of Dynamics CRM “5”, AppFabric Service Bus and Windows Azure. This demo was shown as part of the PDC09 session on Developing xRM Solutions Using Windows Azure.

Enjoy!

Girish Raja

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. But there are far more cool capabilities and reports in the final version of this accelerator</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…[more ]

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…[more ]

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…[more ]

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…[more ]

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 …[more ]

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

In this screencast, we'll see how to build a Silverlight 2 control that connects and displays data from Dynamics CRM.

There are a variety of ways you can connect a Silverlight client to CRM. In this screencast, we're using a proxy approach by having a WCF service sitting in between Silverlight control and CRM web services.

You can download the code for this screencast here. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/ for more code samples and related screencasts.

In this screencast, we'll see how to create a simple Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that pulls data from Dynamics CRM. We'll then see how can we modify this application to work in offline mode.

Check out http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/The-Dynamics-Duo-talk-about-CRM-and-WPF/ for some cool WPF work we've created as a proof of concept.

You can download the code for this screencast here. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/ for more code samples and related screencasts.

In this screencast, we write a simple SharePoint webpart that pulls data from the CRM 4.0 VPC.

Check out http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/The-Dynamics-Duo-talk-about-Dynamics-CRM-and-SharePoint/ to take a look at a cool dashboard you can build with custom connected webparts.

You can download the code for this screencast here. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/ for more code samples and related screencasts.