We have brought up synchronous and asynchronous processing multiple times throughout previous posts thus far related to Custom Workflow Assemblies and Plug-ins in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. The next section will cover in more detail the business and technical impacts of both types of event registration within the Execution Pipeline.

Today's "CRM Success" blog entry will focus on when to use Workflows with Custom Workflow Activities (AKA Workflow Assemblies) and when to use Plug-ins when registering .NET assemblies to help facilitate business processes in CRM.

Once we have defined the processes we want to capture within our CRM system and we have begun our design and captured a user's usage scenarios, we often find places where custom code can help with automating some user processes to make them more efficient or enforce data validation.