Hans Rasmussen

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Encoding in your Visual Studio project

Have you experienced problems in your Visual Studio projects that no matter which encoding you try to use in your pages <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”iso-8859-1″?> for XML or <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″ /> but still you have problems solving swedish characters such as å, å and ö when posting information to external webservice etc.
 Try and configure your [...]

Adding references to Silverlight toolkit in Visual Studio 2008 and Blend 3

If you want to learn and develop some Silverlight components (which I do recommend you start learning how to);
Download Microsoft&reg; Silverlight&trade; 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9442b0f2-7465-417a-88f3-5e7b5409e9dd&amp;displaylang=en
Download Silverlight Control Toolkit from CodePlex http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight
Add references to Silverlight Control Toolkit in Visual Studio 2008 and Blend 3, so you can start using it http://blog.enginefour.com/blog/post/Adding-Silverlight-Toolkit-Controls-to-the-Visual-Studio-and-Blend-Toolbox.aspx

CRM Web reference vs CRM SDK

While working in a project where we integrate with CRM, I noticed how important it is not to mix the ways you can integrate with.
Either you create a reference to the CRM Web service in your Visual Studio project and the proxy classes are generated.
Or you can reference microsoft.crm.sdk.dll and microsoft.crm.sdktypeproxy.dll that exists&nbsp;in the CRM [...]