Interesting in building a dashboard for CRM 4.0? In this article, I’ll show you how to build your own custom CRM dashboards, using Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation to construct the user interface. This dashboard will run as a standalone Windows application in order to give your user’s the most optimal performance.
Please visit the Microsoft CRM Team blog for the whole article - http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2009/01/07/building-rich-client-dashboards-for-microsoft-dynamics-crm-with-windows-presentation-foundation.aspx
Enjoy!