Do you like the new Customer Portal and PRM accelerators and want to load them into your demo VPC so that you can demo to customers without any Internet connectivity in your demo VPC?  If so, this article discussed how to modify the portals to easily run in the Demo VPC without any internet connectivity.  The article also demonstrates how to modify the portals to use any ASP.NET membership provider.

This article gives guidance on the issues surrounding the use of leads and contacts in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, with a special consideration for building self-service customer portals.  Click the title of the article to read more.

This article covers using Live ID for authentication on your customer self-serve portals integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.  Click on the title to read the full article.

I have moved my blog site to Windows Azure.  This site is running on ADXSTUDIO CMS version 7.0.  Click the title of this article to read more...

This article will explain why you should really consider using the CRM SDK assemblies instead of using web references in your CRM development projects.

I found it a little ironic that I blogged about many different technologies but did not blog about my core competency - web content management.  As with any blogging site, the best way to get going, is to - well - get going.  I have added a new section (and feed) to this site relating to issues surrounding web content management.  The section is called Content Management Corner.  You can subscribe to the new feed or simply use the site navigation mechanisms.  Enjoy.

This article will cover how to use Linq queries in your applicaton to query the CRM.

This article explains how to connect to all supported CRM deployment models with a single connection mechanism.

Channel 9 interview with Ben Riga, Ryan Dunn, and Shan McArthur regarding an ISV's experience building a solution on Windows Azure, SQL Data Services, and Dynamics CRM.

ADXSTUDIO demonstrates support of Windows Azure, SQL Data Services, Live ID, MVC, and ADO.NET Data Services at PDC 2008.

This article discusses Andrew Bybee's session BB32 Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Building Line-of-Business Applications.  If you are building line-of-business applications, you should watch the PDC session video and consider the value that the CRM platform can add to your project.

Tips on how to use Azure.

This article gives specific guidance on strategies that you can use today to prepare your application for cloud hosting with Windows Azure and SQL Data Services.

If you are an ISV or partner and don't know who your field evangelist is, then you really need to read this story.

An introduction to Cloud Services, the business case, the impact it will have, and where Microsoft's new Azure and .Net Services fit into this space.