Getting Started
Microsoft® Business Solutions CRM is a Microsoft® .NET-connected product suite that provides sales force automation and customer service for mid-size businesses. Microsoft CRM enables developers to build best-of-breed, distributed, customer relationship management (CRM) applications using the core Microsoft CRM functionality. Developers can use a SOAP-based platform API to access the core business and service objects. Also, Microsoft CRM provides a security model that supports both object and role-based security. Microsoft CRM is a metadata-driven product. It includes a schema for Microsoft CRM objects that covers common and business-specific data.
Document Conventions describes the typographic conventions used in the SDK.
Overview is broken down into the following topics: