Greetings,

We're getting ready to start up some development. Our
first efforts are focused on integrating MS CRM with an
ERP system (QAD's MFG/PRO), not customzing MS CRM
application functionality.

I'm new to this and need to take my first baby steps as
I'm from a blank page. We've done the design and we're
pretty happy with it for the moment (thanks to the list
for feedback earlier this week).

Our first efforts will be focused using the SDK (as
opposed to using Biztalk).

My first baby step is to install visual studio on my
laptop computer and then use the SDK to read some data
from our MS CRM installation running on a server.

I envision these steps:
1) Install visual studio (development environment)
plus .NET (older version, not 2003 version).
2) Get the MS CRM Proxy dll onto my laptop.
3) Create a project and try to get some inquiries to work
against Account or other objects.

Can someone give me a thumbs up or down on this?

Is #2 as simple as I hope it will be? I imagine just
finding the .dll and copying it to my laptop and then
telling visual studio about it.

TIA and Regards,

--Paul Galvin
ISSG

Hi Paul,

So far everything you are doing seems perfect. All you need to do is
copy the MS CRM Proxy dll onto the computer you are doing the dev on and
then reference it in your vs project (the beauty of xcopy in dotnet )
I haven't tried querying data using the dll yet but I have managed to
write back using it no problem. The sdk gives you some good examples
that you can follow.

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