How to Integrate Your Website with Dynamics CRM 4.0 - asp.net

Does ANYONE know of a successful integration of Microsoft Dynamics CRM system with a .net website?
I have gone through all the msdn stuff for getting started with the SDK for Microsoft CRM 4.
I am trying to find any other basic examples / blog posts about implementing the SDK for MS CRM4.
Does anyone know of some blogs that cover this?

To answer your question, integrating Dynamics CRM with any .NET application pretty much means fetching/pushing data from/to CRM. In case you're looking for a two way integration, like also including fetching/pushing data from/to your .NET application (from CRM) then you would require CRM plugins/javascripts as well.
Unless you are a complete newbie in Dynamics CRM, you should be able to figure it out pretty easily by going through the SDK here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc151016.aspx where all the possible methods have been explained. It's all .NET, so 'integration' is not a very big deal. You just need to keep in mind what kind of authentication you'd be performing in CRM; if that's going to be an impersonation or you'd pass credentials.

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I am working on my first .NET Web API. I have an existing .NET Windows Forms application using a SQL Server 2008 R2 database, and now I need to write a new app: a straightforward Android tablet application that will access the same database. These apps for just for internal use; not outside the one company.
I have been on a long journey though many tutorials, blogs and posts here, including this I'm lost. What happened to ASP.NET MVC 5? super helpful explanation of .net products and versions. But over and over I get hopelessly confused about which product I should choose to write the Web API. I can't always tell from some of the tutorials whether the ideas and techniques and configurations apply to both .NET Core and .NET Framework, or just one, and if the tutorial works with current versions. I am using Visual Studio 2019.
Does anyone have a recommendation for whether I should be using .NET Framework 4.8, or the new .NET Core?
I do not find this guidance from Microsoft helpful.
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How to integrate a Sharepoint Blog into ASP.NET web application?

Googling did not result any useful answers so I'm trying you.
Has anyone out there ever done an integration of a Sharepoint Blog into an ASP.NET web application? Or, do you know of any sharepoint web services available for retrieving and updating sharepoint blog content? Any info is appreciated.
Sharepoint is MOSS 2010
The web application is a sitecore intranet
portal 3.3 but this may be inconsequential
There wouldn't be a simple solution to this, however here are a couple of approaches you could explore:
1) Consume the SharePoint Blog RSS feed in your .NET application to get the blog posts
2) Use the SharePoint Client Object Model to interact with SharePoint via custom code. Using the object model (through C# or VB) you could create new posts (which are just list items) as well as retrieve them. Here is a good place to start on writing custom code with the Client Object Model: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee857094.aspx
Check this open source web part
http://www.bendsoft.com/downloads/sharepoint-web-parts/sharepoint-blog-reader/
It would be very simple to convert to generic .net usage, contact Bendsoft at their forum (http://forum.bendsoft.com), maybe they will help you with some of the work. It isn't very difficult when using a connector.
The solution is compatible with both SP 2007, 2010 and also feature versions like 2013.

How could I integrate Arachnode.Net web crawler with some of goodness in Searcharoo for a Search Engine Interface?

I am currently 70% of finishing my portal in asp.net using C# for a local government agency. The portal is quite big with integration with SQL Server 2008 Analysis, Reporting, and Integration services. Plus, I had successfully deployed and configured it into Windows Server 2008 under Active Directory environment. The next requirement is going to provide a search capability to the portal. The search engine must be able to search contents from the analysis and reporting server as well. For the start, I have made some research on the search engine using Microsoft.Net technology. I am very impressed with the works of experts for Arachnode.Net and Searcharoo. For the time being there is a sample for Arachnode.net to combine with Lucene.Net as complete search engine for asp.net. However, Searcharoo seems better than Lucene.Net for many reasons (in my opinion). Could anyone help me guide briefly on how could I integrate Arachnode.Net and Searcharoo? Thanks.
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Forum for ASP.NET MVC site

I am buidling a new site for an organisation. I am using ASP.NET MVC. The previous site was PHP based and had a PHPBB forum. This forum opened in an IFrame, so no integration.
We want a site with all functionality integrated. I thought, I probably have to write a forum myself. However there are other ASP.NET open source forums out there just like phpbb.
Is there a way to integrate third-party forums cleanly into my site? Or am I better of coding it myself?
Check my answer to this question, for an ASP .NET MVC based forum:
Who knows a good free open source forum in C#?
If you want an ASP .NET Webforms forum I can recommend you YetAnotherForum.NET.
ASP.NET MVC is still in beta stage and not much free options are available on the .NET side of things.
It's actually a very easy task if you already have experience writing MVC app.
Not counting those that haven't got some stable releases out, most free options such as YAF are written to run as a standalone applications on classic ASP.NET webforms framework and will often requires that you use a certain fixed database platform and thus will require work to patch them so they integrate nicely with the MVC framework.
So I suggest you code it up yourself. Especially if you just want an integrated forum that don't need to have as much features as phpbb.
Or better yet, start an open source project!
The following post has numerous options: ASP.NET MVC Forum Software?

Using Microsoft Search Server 2008 with asp.net/vb.net

I'm installing Microsoft Search Server 2008 express with a view to indexing some content for an intranet application.
Having not used Search Server before, i am looking at ways of my asp.net app (.net 3.5) querying the search server.
I'm just starting to look into Search Community Toolkit to see if it is relevant to what i want to achieve. But was wondering if you guys can point me in the right direction (code, articles, etc).
Many Thanks.
Microsoft provides developer APIs. The assemblies are part of the Search Server 2008 SDK.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb931107.aspx
After a few google searches, came across this website which fits the bill pretty well.
http://labs.episerver.com/en/Blogs/Ted-Nyberg/Dates/2009/1/Using-EPiServer-and-Microsoft-Search-Server-2008/
Describes using the Search Server web service, which is quite a clean way to do it.

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