CRM Developer Chat with Fellow MVPs and Resource Links

Today, I had the privilege to do a Google Hangout with three fellow CRM MVPs (Donna Edwards, Dave Berry and Jamie Miley) to talk about some CRM development practices, including development tools, HTML5 vs Silverlight, CRM Polaris and Orion releases, JavaScript, JSON, etc.

I had a lot of fun during the session, particularly when Jamie decided to put a pirate hat on himself.

You can watch the recording of the session below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=i82l7ENifBk



I mentioned a few tools and technical resources during the session, here are the links to them.

• CRM 2011 Web Resource Linker/Publisher
• Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.js library (An open source TypeScript library that enables CRM SOAP service calls through JavaScript)
• Dynamics CRM 2011 Type interface for TypeScript (TypeScript definition file for Xrm object model)
• AdxStudio ALM Toolkit (A tool suit that enables automated CRM development experience)
• HTML 5 Learning Resources
• HTML5 Tutorials on Youtube (A series of learning tutorial which contains 53 lectures which have great coverage of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript)
• HTML5 Introduction on W3Schools (The starting page of a series of HTML5 articles)

Hope these links are helpful.

Hey, I am a Microsoft MVP now

I found that it was a very pleasant experience during the last couple of years while I was working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and related .NET technology. Today there came a new surprise and a privilege that I received an email this morning from Microsoft team which informed me that I have been awarded as a Microsoft Dynamics CRM MVP.


I would like to say thanks to the CRM community, it's a very generous community that people really liked to share their working knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics CRM product. Particularly I want to thank the fellow CRM MVPs, Andriy Butenko, Dave Berry, David Jennaway, and also Jim Glass (who is a Microsoft fellow and a CRM community lead), for the tremendous support that I have received from them on CRM Development Forum. I also hope to extend my appreciation to Microsoft Community & Online Support team, and the MVP leads from Microsoft Canada, for their recognition of my contribution in the CRM community, even though I consider my contribution significantly trivial.

I want to thank Microsoft Dynamics CRM team for their hard work to keep evolving the product into a better and better development platform in the past few years. CRM platform has got great potentials in the future, keep up all the good work, folks!

From the community perspective, I have recently noticed some very talented resources in the forums after CRM 2011 has been released, I would like to thank those of you for your hard work and the contributions that you have made to the community. You can be assured that your contributions will be recognized as well one day, we need more MVPs to help grow the community!

Cheers,
Daniel