Moving Form Labels Above a Field in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

I just stumbled across a post that Jamie Miley (MVP) published to his LinkedIn page about moving form labels from the side of field to above a field. This becomes most useful when trying to format sections that contain three or four columns, as the text becomes disjointed and difficult to read. I didn’t even [...]

New CRM 2011 SDK v5.0.5 includes development toolkit!

The new Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Software Development Kit (SDK) v 5.0.5 came out yesterday including the eagerly awaited CRM 2011 development toolkit (in beta version)! The toolkit can be found here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=24004 The Developer Toolkit is a set of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 integration tools designed to accelerate the development of custom code for [...]

Restoring a CRM 2011 database (SQL Enterprise to SQL Standard)

I came across this issue about a week ago when creating a replica vmware image for undertaking some testing in one of my projects. I was attempting to replicate a customer’s Live CRM environment on my image in order to do a bit of testing when i ran into an error i hadnt seen in [...]

‘Spell Checking’ in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

I have been looking for a decent free ’spell checker’ for use with CRM for a while now. IESpell has always been the default choice in a limited ‘freebie’ market of spell checking software but i never felt completely satisfied with it. So you can all imagine my delight when i stumbled across two blog posts [...]