From the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Blogs: LINQ and ExecuteMultiple; Azure Blog Storage; Syncing Address Books; XrmToolBox Plugin

A Potent Cocktail: ExecuteMultiple and LINQ: From the CRM Entropy - A Microsoft Dynamics CRM Blog, we get some insight on this from Microsoft MVP David Berry. Berry is covering the intersection of CRM 2011's new ExecuteMultiple capabilities and his love of LINQ. Berry's not referring to using LINQ provider for CRM, though you can certainly use that to produce a collection of records upon which to perform some operation in bulk.

Rather, he's showing you an elegant snippet of code that demonstrates the power of ExecuteMultiple with the cleanliness of succinct LINQ. 

Given an EntityCollection - someRecords - suppose that you need to increment some integer - my_integer - on each of the contained records. For the purposes of this example, Berry's using the late-bound Entity type.

"I love it when technologies using the same framework marry together like peaches and cream.," Berry says. You can read how they come together here.

Using Windows Azure Blog Storage with Dynamics CRM: In this post, Microsoft's Brajendra Singh explains how Windows Azure Blog Storage can be used with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

He writes: "In many of the CRM implementations, we come across requirement where certain documents are required to be linked with records such as accounts, contacts, cases, activities etc. "

Examples include insurance and telco companies who want to attach scanned copies of documents and public sector organizations that want to store job orders, inspection reports, and other standard documents.

Singh ...