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Recently my install of IdeaBlade went MIA from both Visual Studio 2005 & 2008. I'm not exactly sure why, but I suspect it is probably something to do with VS crashing.

The first thing I tried was the old uninstall/reinstall path. That didn't work! What to do? Google held the answer in the form of the DevForce Support Forums

Many Exonet users are small businesses who supply to huge businesses.  A lot of the time, these large customers have electronic supply chain systems, that you as a small supplier would like to hook into.

Coming soon in WebB2B will be SAP OCI/OPI integration and support for the UBL 2.0 XML standard for electronic exchange of orders and invoices.

Keep tuned!

I have been reading Coding Horror for a couple of years now, and I only recently noticed a great resource that Jeff has on that site. It's a complete (I think) listing of keyboard shortcuts for Visual Studio 2005.

Some of these have come in very handy for us around the office, and hopefully we can all pick up some more gems from this list.

We recently discovered a little-known feature of the Microsoft CRM API, the ability to create entities via the web service, but with a creation date in the past.

This is very useful for our Exonet to CRM importer, and it is now a standard feature.

Info is here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc677122.aspx

One little gotcha we've noticed is that this particular field MUST be supplied to the CRM webservice in UTC, eg:

Hello World! This post has been created in Windows Live Writer, allowing me to prepare the post off-line and then post it to the blog using XML-RPC.

The instructions for getting it to work with Drupal are on Sean Buscay's blog