A CRM Riff
A mostly Microsoft Dynamics CRM blog with random riffs on music, Microsoft, and the Northwest.
A Tip: Where to get Moble Device Batteries
My 2002 AT&T Motorola cell phone needed a battery so I went to Radio Shack. The fellow there...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 03/13/2006
Microsoft Reveals Origami Mini-PC
RedmondMag.com sez: "Microsoft Corp. finally took the wraps off its mysterious Project Origami on...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 03/10/2006
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Community
Microsoft CRM community provides opportunities to interact with Microsoft CRM team members, experts...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 03/08/2006
Track Time Spent with Contracts using CRM 3.0
By linking a contract and cases, you can track time spent on cases in contract lines, and then use...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 03/02/2006
CRM Truism - Understand the Pain
This from one of my favorite bloggers, Joel on Software: “Don’t start a business if you can’t...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 03/01/2006
How to Get People to Your Blog - Part Deux
A number of bloggers have asked me how to drive traffice to <insert name of your blog here>. I...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 03/01/2006
How to Get People to Your Blog
Philip Richardson and I were talking about getting people to your blog site. The first requirement...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 02/23/2006
How to Get a List of Activities by Customer
A customer asks: As a system customizer, I have created a new view (Public View) in Activity showing...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 02/21/2006
Microsoft Presents Momentum Webcasts
Check these Momentum Webcasts out: Growing Your Firm in a Slow-Growth Market: Challenges to...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 02/17/2006
Synchronizing Accounts in an Offline World
Synchronization of CRM can be set up so that top management can sync with many (or all) accounts....
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 02/17/2006
Try Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 for Free
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 is available as a 90-day trial version in many languages. Each trial...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 02/14/2006
Play with Windows Live Betas
Windows Live is a new set of Internet software and services designed to put you in control of the...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 02/13/2006
Thoughteracy for All
I got my much anticipated issue of Ubiquity this week and both my Dad and I found M.O....
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 02/09/2006
I'm moving to the CRM Team!
It's official. 9 February I will be the Site Manager for the Customer Relationship Management team....
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 02/07/2006
"How Do I' Topics Debut
Another vector for finding solutions in the SDK is to use the How Do I topic that we have designed...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 10/03/2005
Investigating Blue Screens of Death
Sometimes we get MSDN Feedback bugs that talk about STOP errors aka blue screens of death. When a...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 09/27/2005
PM Phil Taylor at PDC 2005
F5's Joe Pruitt talks with Phil Taylor about what VS Extensibility is, how his team enlists users to...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 09/26/2005
Down to the Wire--Delivering the VS SDK, ver. 1.0 RTM
What a long week! We are scrambling to finish the documentation for the RTM release of the Visual...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 09/23/2005
The VS SDK, version 1.0 RTM
My team is feverishly working on a complete rework of the documentation for this release. We've even...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 09/13/2005
Visual Studio 2005 SDK - September CTP
The Visual Studio 2005 SDK community tech preview (CTP) is ready for the world. I'll try to blog...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 09/02/2005
Deploying Add-Ins
At some point when you are developing add-ins, you may find that you want to install and run them on...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 08/18/2005
Wanna Show Off at PDC 2005?
Mike Swanson blogs that there may be a "show off" session at PDC 2005. Here a chance for you and...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 08/15/2005
Comparing Automation Add-ins to Visual Studio Packages
From: An Interested VS SDK User (with our comments in brown) Hello Ed, I would like to suggest that...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 08/12/2005
New VSIP Download Site
Today we launched the re-organized VSIP download page. This site should: Complete the transition of...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 08/05/2005
VP Chris Jones on Channel 9 talking about Windows Vista
Chris Jones is on Channel 9 talking about the beta one release of Windows Vista beta 1. I'm still...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 07/29/2005
Escape Yesterworld.com
The Visual Studio and SQL Server product teams are pleased to announce the “Escape from Yesterworld”...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 07/27/2005
Integrating Eclipse and Microsoft's Team System
This hot off the press from Dr. Dobbs: "Visual Studio Team System is an integrated suite of...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 07/13/2005
Using Help (or How I Spent My Summer Vacation)
Give a user a Help topic, and you help him for a day. Teach a user to use Help, and you help him for...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 07/12/2005
VS SDK Tweaks TOC
Last night I was watching the fireworks over Lake Sammamish, less than two miles from the Microsoft...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 07/05/2005
Introduction to Team System Partner Training 7/13-7/15 and 7/25-7/27
Gene Webb's Blog talks about some interesting training: Introduction to Visual Studio Team System3...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 06/28/2005
VSIP Walkthrough: Subscribing to an Event
Here is a new walkthrough that won't get into the release for a month or two. Let me know what you...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 06/16/2005
Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap
This is an interesting view of Visual Studio .Net looking at where we are now and where we want to...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 06/15/2005
Video Tutorial: How to Use VSTO 2005 Help
This demonstration shows you how to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 06/15/2005
What can I do with the Visual Studio SDK?
A customer asks "What can we do in Visual Studio with VSIP? We would appreciate a set of bullet...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 06/01/2005
62 Million Blogs and Counting?
[Note from Jim: This was too good not to pass on. For those interested in blogging, the Personal...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 05/31/2005
Watch a Microsoft Developer Code with Visual Studio 2005
From Rob Caron's blog we find the Windows Mobile team describing how to code in a very nice video....
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 05/26/2005
How to Access Properties of Specific Project Types
The Visual Studio general automation model provides the Properties collection that can be used to...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 05/25/2005
How do I put an icon in the splash screen and about box?
I've seen several questions about changes in the VS2005 splash screen and about box. Here are the...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 05/23/2005
What's New in VSIP 2005
The Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) SDK 2005 now known as the Visual Studio 2005 SDK will ship...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 05/17/2005
Visual Studio 2005 Versions
For a good summary of the upcoming SKU's of VS 2005 and Team Server, check this out:...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 05/09/2005
What's New for Automation in Visual Studio 2005
Visual Studio 2005 features a number of targeted, programmable object models. By using these models,...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 05/05/2005
Hot off the Presses: Beta Cleanup Tool Fix
Aaron Stebner's WebLog provides a fix for those of us with beta one and other builds of Whidbey who...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 04/26/2005
Report: MSDN Forums' First Month
Well, it's been a month since the MSCOM team rolled out the MSDN Forums and with it our sub-forum...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 04/19/2005
Data Designer Extensibility (DDEX): An Introduction
Visual Studio 2005 introduces a rich new environment for developing database applications against...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 04/12/2005
Because you are my friend...
I'm gonna let you know something a little earlier than the general public. MSDN Forums is available...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 04/07/2005
How to: Respond to Events in a Specific Project (Visual C#)
I am the newest programmer writer for the Visual Studio Automation team. This is my first blog, one...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 04/04/2005
Everyone's Scrumming
The VS Core team is going to test the scrum waters starting 1 May and lasting 30 days. We plan a...
Author: Jim Glass Jr Date: 04/01/2005