Introducing the Diesel Xrm Service Wrapper

In this post, I will present a generic Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) wrapper for the Dynamics CRM Organization Service that lets you turn any FetchXML query into a web service interface without needing to write any code at all. I call my solution the Diesel Xrm Service Wrapper after Diesel, »

A Data Snapshot Framework for Dynamics CRM

Although Dynamics CRM offers several different ways to report on data stored in the system, there is no out-of-the-box mechanism for reporting on how data changes over time. That is to say, while you can easily report on how many active accounts are owned by a particular sales rep today, »

A Better Dynamics CRM E-mail Editor With Markdown

Last month I wrote a post called A Better Dynamics CRM E-mail Editor With TinyMCE in which I showed how to create a better Dynamics CRM e-mail editing interface using TinyMCE. Since then I have done some work with Markdown, and I decided it would be an interesting exercise to »

Easy HTML Formatting for Comments in Orchard Using Markdown

I recently moved this site from BlogEngine.NET to Orchard, and I decided I wanted to offer some basic HTML formatting (bold, italic, hyperlinks, etc.) functionality for comments, but I didn't want to do any significant amount of coding. After some research I realized that Markdown syntax would be the »

A Better Dynamics CRM E-mail Editor With TinyMCE

I think most people would agree the e-mail editing functionality in the Dynamics CRM web UI leaves a lot to be desired. One of the most embarrassing moments I experienced on a recent project was when I had to explain to the client the convoluted process that would need to »