A Developer's Guide to Integrating Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 & SharePoint 2010

SharePoint and CRM is a match made in heaven! With Dynamics CRM 2011 & CRM Online, Microsoft provides out-of-box document integration with SharePoint 2010 but customers are increasingly looking for ways to integrate these two technologies further. In this developer-focused session, we take a look at how you can bring CRM data to SharePoint using webparts, Business Connectivity Services (BCS), web services and more. You will also see demos of BCS Connector for CRM and an end-to-end online application connecting SharePoint Online, CRM Online, Microsoft Silverlight and Azure. If you're looking to understand how you can integrate these two technologies, then you won't want to miss this demo-filled session.

Azure AppFabric & CRM

Chris Auld describes how Windows Azure AppFabric provides a general purpose messaging bus to send message through the cloud in a network topology agnostic fashion. This provides rich point-to-point messaging between applications.

CRM 2011 Developer Overview with Andrew Bybee

Andrew Bybee is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, where he leads a team that has developed many of the features that developers will find most useful. In this video, he discusses ways in which developers can build solutions in the cloud, taking advantage of the Azure infrastructure, as well as coding on the server with an improved solution framework, and then making their solutions available on the new Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace.

CRM 2011 Solutions Management with Humberto Guadarrama

In this video, Humberto, who is the Program Manager for the Solutions Management feature area in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, talks about how developers can now define, transport, deploy, maintain and consume full business applications, built entirely on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Solutions Framework, in just hours or days.

CRM-Azure Screencast

This screencast is designed to get you started using the new "CRM-Azure AppFabric Integration" feature.

Dynamics CRM 2011 Validation Framework - Setup and Configuration Walkthrough

The sample shows you the foundational pieces of creating a custom, reusable validation framework for CRM forms/entities that allows you to define the validation rule through the CRM UI and have the validation execute both client-side using JavaScript and server-side through an "all entities" plugin.

Introducing Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Claims-based Authentication

This is an updated video demonstrating how-to configure the RTM CRM 2011 deployment with Claims based authentication and IFD access. The recording utilizing internally hosted DNS records and signed Certificates from an internal CA. The video is unable to cover purchases of third party certificates, external DNS updates or routing through firewalls as there are too many variations and the CRM Support team are unable to endorse one product over the other.

Introduction to CRM 2011 Training Kit

David Yack and Chris Auld describe the content and structure of the CRM 2011 Training kit.

jQuery and oData

Chris Auld explains how jQuery and OData will provide capabilities for more client-side extensibility in CRM.

LINQ Provider

David Yack describes the LINQ Provider that is new with Microsoft CRM 2011. The LINQ provider allows for using LINQ to query and update data.

Merging CRM 2011 Solutions

This screencast shows how to merge two or more unmanaged solutions by importing them into a master solution.

Script# & Dynamics CRM 2011

This video walk you through two core usage scenarios for Script# in the Dynamics CRM 2011 context:

• Creating JavaScript web resources
• Sharing basic logic across server-side code (plugins/workflow, and activities), and client-side code (JavaScript web resources)

Silverlight & CRM - Part 1

David Yack tells you about how Silverlight can be used with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.

Solutions - Managed & UnManaged

David Yack talks about how you can use managed and unmanaged solutions.