It's been a while since I bloged about my favorite topic i.e. Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Anyways, I intend to start blogging a lot more regularly than before and what else could be a better start than a Developer Training Kit?

Microsoft has release a Developer Training Kit which will help developers to start learning CRM 2011 quickly and is fully loaded with

 - Presentations
 - Videos
 - Hands On Labs

You can download the kit from here : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/girishr/archive/2011/02/09/dynamics-crm-2011-developer-training-kit.aspx

This book is a gift from the Windows Phone 7 team at Microsoft to the programming community, and I am proud to have been a part of it. Within the pages that follow, I show you the basics of writing applications for Windows Phone 7 using the C# programming language with the Silverlight and XNA 2D frameworks. For more information, check out this page : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2010/10/28/free-ebook-programming-windows-phone-7-by-charles-petzold.aspx

You can download a PDF here (12.5 MB).

You can download an XPS here (26.7 MB).

And you can download the ebook’s sample code here (5.03 MB).

Few weeks back I stumbled upon this awesome code library http://1code.codeplex.com/

It has lots of code samples which you could use in your application and also learn various development techniques.

From CodePlex's about us of All-In One Code Framework

Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework delineates the framework and skeleton of Microsoft development techniques through typical sample codes in three popular programming languages (Visual C#, VB.NET, Visual C++). Each sample is elaborately selected, composed, and documented to demonstrate one frequently-asked, tested or used coding scenario based on our support experience in MSDN newsgroups and forums. If you are a software developer, you can fill the skeleton with blood, muscle and soul. If you are a software tester or a support engineer like us, you may extend the sample codes a little to fit your specific test scenario or refer your customer to this project if the customer's question coincides with what we collected.

The project has more than 450 code examples that cover 24 Microsoft development technologies such as Azure, Windows 7 and Silverlight 3. The collection grows by six samples per week. You can find the up-to-date list of samples in All-In-One Code Framework Sample Catalog.

Ever tried designing a WPF form? I have and it was no fun when I started. After a while I figured out what my development style is and how I want a particular design in place. After that it all became easy but before that I had to struggle a lot. Anyways, I stumbled upon this nice article that explains Layout designing in detail. I hope it will be useful to you as well.

FYI the Update Rollup 12 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is available for download at : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028381.