Having been presented with a pick list containing 50 items that my customer wanted me to upload to CRM, I got to wondering if there is an easier way of doing this.


Of course, I can edit the XML of the record directly but that's still a lot of manual work.

Enter the Dynamics CRM Pick-list XML-Generator from Mario Raunig... an incredibly useful time saving tool.
 
Thanks Mario!!

How to get code in my blog?

I've often come across very useful information posted by other industry experts on blogs. Now that I'm doing it myself I was wondering how people managed to post good looking code on their sites - one example is Jim Wang over at http://jianwang.blogspot.com/.

Well, I've found the key - a very useful tool called SyntaxHighlighter.

And just so I can remember how to set it up next time I need it, there is a very useful wiki over at Carter Cole's Blog.

And just so you can see it working:

//Define and initialise our variables
var alertMsg;
alertMsg = "Hello World";
//Set up the alert window
if (alertMsg != "") {
    window.alert(alertMsg);
}