When implementing Microsoft CRM 4.0 recently, our client requested a feature that would send a notification each time an email recipient read the emails sent from the CRM system. This was a very important function to our client for sales and marketing purposes. With such a notification, they would be able to track who read …
Depending on your business needs, you may wish to integrate between different systems. For example, integration is necessary when an organization has two different systems that do two different jobs but have a common area between them. Say an organization has a system that does Loan Application Origination and another system that does Loan Servicing. …
In a previous post, I talked about a basic operation that you can do against a collection of objects with LINQ queries. Well, the operations that you can do with LINQ queries extend beyond a simple query or filter on a specific field in your collection. You can do aggregate operations by using LINQ queries. …
LINQ to objects is a technology that allows .Net developers to query a collection of objects by using a syntax that is very similar to SQL statements. Usually, if you want to query a collection of objects, you need a nested for loop to go over each item in the collection. Sometimes you may even need …
Microsoft recently released the results from their Mission Critical Applications study. This study consisted of a survey conducted by a third party (not Microsoft) called IDC. According to Microsoft, the objective of the study was to assess: What types of mission critical application platforms are in use (Email and database were excluded from study to …
One of the basic principles of security is never display error messages that expose information about the internal system platform you are using. I mean messages like: What encryption algorithm you are using internally User DBUser does not have access to DB XYZ User DBUser does not have permission on stored procedure XYZ Exposing such …
A friend of mine recently asked me a question that was challenging to answer. The question was, “What’s the easiest way to write a .Net code (algorithm) that generates all possible combinations of 3 characters together, considering the valid characters are from A to Z or any symbols?” Before we go any further, you may …
Microsoft CRM is one of the best products that Microsoft has to offer. We’ve successfully implemented it for clients and they’ve been very happy with the results. Though, it wasn’t without challenges. MS CRM comes as a black box which poses problems for integration. Fortunately, however, Microsoft provides APIs to integrate and inject our codes …
During one of the more difficult projects I have had recently, we were developing a new web application for a client. The client asked us to change the behavior of a textbox whenever it went into disabled mode. Basically, the new behavior was to change the background of the textbox to be grayed out and …
XSL is short for EXtensible Stylesheet Language, which is the style sheet language for XML. XSLT is short for EXtensible Stylesheet Transformations. You can utilize XSLT to transform XML into another form. For example, you can transform XML to HTML, text file, or even another XML format. For me, there is great use for XML/XSL. …