Ron Penton

Ron Penton

Ron Penton is a Senior .NET developer at Datatel where he develops enterprise applications on Microsoft platforms. Prior to Datatel, Ron authored multiple books on game programming and other .NET technologies.

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  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 - A Platform for Packaged Software?

    Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - July/August

    Since its introduction in 2008, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 has been touted as a platform for rapid application development.We’ve always been hard core C# and ASP.NET snobs, but we were intrigued by the value that Dynamics CRM promised. We set out to build our next generation software product on that platform, and learned a lot about what’s real and what’s not so real. In this article, we will share the rollercoaster ride of our experience developing our software product on this new CRM “platform.”