Windows app for Microsoft Dynamics CRM in 5 minutes

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Thanks to open source components for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you can develop a WinForm application for CRM in 5 minutes.

  In this blog article, I will go through a few simple steps to get up to speed developing a client that connects to and shows information from Microsoft Dynamics CRM by using two open source spinoff components: ConnectionManager from XrmToolBox and CRMGridView from FetchXML Builder.   These four simple steps are all that is required:

  1. Create project and add NuGet packages
  2. Make VS aware of the imported user control
  3. Configure a form with CRMGridView
  4. Add a few lines of code

1. Create project and add NuGet packages

In Visual Studio, create a new WinForm Project. image Right click the solution, select Manage NuGet Packages for Solution. In the search field, type Cinteros.Xrm image Install Cinteros.Xrm.CRMWinForm. Continue reading “Windows app for Microsoft Dynamics CRM in 5 minutes” →

Reflections from eXtremeCRM Madrid 2015

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A few days ago on the flight down to Madrid, I wrote about
my Expectations for eXtremeCRM.

Now the conference is over, I am back in the flight seat heading home to Sweden.

Twitter The Social Buzz

If you want to follow a sort of backwards timeline from the conference, I did post a few tweets of things I found interesting. See here: @rappen. Continue reading “Reflections from eXtremeCRM Madrid 2015” →

Integrating FetchXML Builder with other plugins

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With the next release of FetchXML Builder for XrmToolBox it is possible for other tools to benefit from the UI FetchXML Builder offers to compose queries to be used for any purpose.

The MessageBus functionality introduced in pull request #101 of XrmToolBox makes it possible to communicate between plugins within the tool. Continue reading “Integrating FetchXML Builder with other plugins” →

To the eXtreme

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eXtremeCRM

This year I will be attending my fourth eXtremeCRM Europe conference.

After joining the eXtremeCRM conference in Prague (2011), Rome (2013) and Barcelona (2014) I will join this year’s edition as well, which will be hosted in Madrid on April 20-23. Besides tons of sessions on the cutting edge of Dynamics CRM development, there are a lot of coffee breaks to be filled with other things than just cookies and coffee. Continue reading “To the eXtreme” →

Introduction to FetchXML Builder

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FetchXML Builder for XrmToolBox is getting more and more attention and is now downloaded and used in most parts of the world. Current numbers indicate a total download count of about 1600, and top count for a single version is close to 400. So I figured it was probably time to write an introduction to the tool, though I have actually received very few questions about how to use it (is it really that intuitive and self-explanatory??) There is now a page on this blog dedicated to FetchXML Builder with brief information on how to use the tool and what features it offers. It begins like this: Continue reading “Introduction to FetchXML Builder” →