The Benefits of Open Source Projects in the World of Microsoft Dynamics CRM

May 29 2015

In recent years I have become involved with the world of open source projects in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM community. I have searched, found, followed, discussed, improved, and developed tools for CRM. I see many benefits and possibilities, as well as a few risks with open source initiatives for Dynamics CRM.

In this article I will explore some of the pros and cons around living in the world of branches, commits, releases, pull requests, forks, builds, contributors, issues and wikis.

About Jonas Rapp

Jonas Rapp is the head of development for Microsoft Dynamics CRM at Cinteros AB in Sweden. He is author of FetchXML Builder and a blogger.

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rajyraman's picture
On May 29th, 2015 Raj Raman said:

Not an exhaustive list. But these are some of the projects, I have benefited from in the past 6-8 months. Quick Find On Selected View -> https://quickfindonselectedview.codeplex.com/ Polymorphic Workflow Activity Input Arguments -> https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Polymorphic-Workflow-a5987b23 PFE Core Library -> https://pfexrmcore.codeplex.com/ xRM Test Framework -> https://xrmtestframework.codeplex.com/ Sdk.Soap.js -> https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SdkSoapjs-9b51b99a Exception Logging -> https://mscrm2013exceptionlogging.codeplex.com/
rappen's picture
On June 16th, 2015 Jonas Rapp said:

Jason Lattimer at PowerObjects has released an ambitious project in the void of DevToolkit being discontinued by Microsoft. So the Open Source community steps in once again where needed! And as mentioned above, it is in the developer tooling we find our common ground. http://msdynamicsworld.com/story/new-open-source-project-aims-fill-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2015-developer-toolkit-gap

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