Article of the Week
The article of the week is my trilogy of articles on plugin code
Are your CRM plugins creating technical debt?
Are CRM Developers are afraid of creating classes?
How to find classes
The articles look at the effect of creating plugins and putting all the code inside the plugin class, the benefits of creating classes and how to find classes when creating code.
Non Hosk article of the week
Dynamics CRM and ILMerge: The Easy Way to Merge DLLs for Plugins
It’s an old article but a good step by step guide to using ILMerge
Best of the Rest
check out the plugin tracing in CRM 2015 sp1
The ability to see the trace file in plugins will dramatically help investigating live issues.
CRM 2013 – Understanding Auditing, Tips, Tricks and Gotchas
A good long look at auditing by the Hosk.
How to handle Nulls in Dynamics CRM Calculated Fields
Interesting article on handling nulls in calculated fields
CRM 2013 – Javascript null setting oddity
A Hosk article investigating why a field wasn’t being set but delves into requirement levels and debugging
Microsoft acquires FieldOne, global provider of field service management solutions for the enterprise
video
Another new business purchased by Microsoft
Dynamics CRM: Extensions to Improve IOrganizationService
Good use of extensions to ease CRM Development
What are Preview features and how do I enable them?
New preview functionality has been added to CRM 2015, check it out
Accessing related entities fields in Calculated Fields formulas in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Online Update 1
Debugging Plug-in Made Easy for Dynamics CRM Online
A step by step guide to debugging plugins using the plugin registration tool
Microsoft Dynamics CRM not working? check these common causes
What to check if CRM stops working
Restrict customer lookup to select a specific entity records in CRM 2013/2015
Adding filters to lookups in Javascript
What’s new in CRM 2015 SP1 for developers, customizers and admins
A run down of the new features in CRM 2015 SP1
programming
Get off Your Horse and Stop Coding like a Cowboy
Second System Syndrome
interesting discussion – Over 40 years, has Software Gotten Better or Worse?
Other articles interesting the Hosk
How Bold Entrepreneurs Are Breaking $1 Million In One-Person Businesses
Microsoft ruined Nokia – WHY. Microsoft and Nokia – a marriage made in hell?
How Changing Our Product Team Structure Doubled Productivity
Annoying practices of bad recruitment consultants
Microsoft marketing manager plays the blues
Elon Musk’s high-speed Hyperloop train makes more sense for Mars than California
Here’s what happens to your brain when you give up sugar for Lent
The Stoic: 9 Principles to Help You Keep Calm in Chaos
teaching maths Asian style
What I learned from a McDonald’s Manager
Previous top picks
Hosk’s Top CRM Articles of the week – 10th July
Useful Hosk Links
Hosk list Of CRM 2013 Tools
A list and review of CRM 2013 tools, this will probably work in CRM 2015 as well
Hosk’s CRM Developer Articles
A collection of my favourite CRM Developer articles I have written
MB2-703 – CRM 2013 Customization and Configuration Certification Information
All the CRM 2013 content to help you pass the exam
HoskWisdom – Hosk Developer Quotes
Words of Wisdom from the Hosk. I have written over 900 articles, surely I should have said a few memorable things
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