What happened to the CRM Sandbox?
Not that long ago Microsoft had this nice little back door community for CRM developers. It was called the Microsoft CRM Sandbox and it was a place where coders could share code snippits and Microsoft Dynamics CRM extensions.
Over the last couple of days I have been talking with a new contact who found an error in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Mobile Express client. The sandbox would have been a perfect place to post and share this information. You see the sandbox was not overwhelming like many of the public and private newsgroups. It was focused.
Anyway it looks like the sandbox is no more as it has been replaced with a link into MSDN2. :(
Very shrewd observation Greg. Unfortunately the CodePlex team felt our Sandbox wasn't best served on a site used for open source projects. I actually got through all the pre-inspections and trials by the CRM MVPs (thanks youse guys) but then was forced to pull the site off of CodePlex. I sure was a pretty site by time I got it propped for the week that it existed, if I do say so myself.
Posted by: JaAG | August 14, 2007 at 11:43 AM
Hey guys. I tried to use CodePlex but it didn't jive with the CodePlex's mission. So we went to the CRM Dev Center. There are a couple of new peices like the MSDN Code Samples and the CRM team's implementation Microsoft's Connect web site to put in place. But I hope that those peices will be in by the end of the year. If I owned them, they'd be in place already.
So we have the forums and the newsgroups. There isn't much traffic in the CRM dev newsgroup and even less in the CRM dev forums. So have at it there. I try to monitor them so that people get answers. And because Anne pinged me, I sent the Mobile Express question to that team.
Posted by: JaAG | August 07, 2007 at 01:02 PM
Hey guys. I tried to use CodePlex but it didn't jive with the CodePlex's mission. So we went to the CRM Dev Center. There are a couple of new peices like the MSDN Code Samples and the CRM team's implementation Microsoft's Connect web site to put in place. But I hope that those peices will be in by the end of the year. If I owned them, they'd be in place already.
So we have the forums and the newsgroups. There isn't much traffic in the CRM dev newsgroup and even less in the CRM dev forums. So have at it there. I try to monitor them so that people get answers. And because Anne pinged me, I sent the Mobile Express question to that team.
Posted by: JaAG | August 07, 2007 at 01:02 PM