Product Description This Wrox Blox explains a custom design for integrating Microsoft CRM 4.0 with external applications. The author helps readers understand Microsoft CRM’s integration capabilities and design approach for integrating Microsoft CRM with other applications and implementing it by integrating Microsoft CRM with WSS Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (WSS). The Wrox Blox begins with an explanation of the requirements for a generic design pattern and discusses different components of Microsoft CRM 4.0 that aid in integration. As an example, the complete source code and step-by-step guide to integrate Windows SharePoint Services with Microsoft CRM 4.0, are included. The integration solution involves MSMQ and Windows Services to provide reliability and extensibility to the solution. After reading this Wrox Blox, readers should be able to easily design an integration solution for integrating Microsoft CRM 4.0 with any external application.
Table of Contents:
Integrating CRM with Other Applications 2
Requirements for CRM Integration Solution 2
CRM Integration Components 3
Architecture of MSCRM-to-WSS Integration 4
Installing the Components of the MSCRM Integration Solution 6
Account Customization 11
Installing and Configuring WSS 12
Importing the Template 12
Configuring Event Handler in WSS 15
Configuring WSS Features 15
Installing Windows Services 15
Installing and Configuring Message Queue 16
Running the Solution 16
Implementing MSCRM-to-WSS Integration 20
Account_Plugin 21
The Processing of DynamicEntity 21
MSCRM_WSS_INT 23
Implementing WSS-to-MSCRM Integration 30
WSS_EventHandler 30
WSS_MSCRM_INT 32
Summary 36
About Rituraj Singh
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