I thought I’d make not of this topic ( which is found in the CRM 2011 SDK ) because when you attempt to export the Default Solution, it seems to “wantâ€? to perform the export, but never does – AND it never gives you an error. So, if you want to modify the SiteMap, follow […]
Continue readingIf you plan on writing anything that uses the CRM 2011 SDK, you may at some point run into the following error message: The application terminated with an error. Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Solution: You need […]
Continue readingI guess I was low on memory or some such thing this morning and VS2010 got all kinds of “wonky� made up a bunch of errors that didn’t exist then finally spit out this message: Restarting VS solved the issue.
Continue readingVia ScottGu: An extension has been added to Visual Studio 2010 to enhance the JavaScript coding experience. JScript Editor Extensions Overview Bundles the following extensions for the Visual Studio 2010 JScript editor: Brace Matching Adds support for automatically highlighting the matching opening or closing brace to the one currently at the cursor. Supports matching […]
Continue readingIn CRM 4.0 developers sometimes needed to extract data from the parent form of a record opened from one of the associated views attached to the record. A contact record opened from an Account would be a perfect example. Well, CRM 2011’s JavaScript object model is slightly different so using the following technique doesn’t work: […]
Continue readingI was visiting a local customer this week and learned they are about the begin a de-duplication process for their contacts within CRM. I thought we’d discuss one possible solution the cleaning up your contact list. Finding Duplicates I will not really be discussing how to find duplicate records since it will depend entirely on […]
Continue readingHi everyone, This morning I uploaded some additional documentation for the CRM Migration Assistant application which gets into a little more detail about what it does. You may download the documentation here.
Continue readingAs I was producing the associated documentation for my CRM Migration Assistant application, I decided to explore a comparison between a technique that we had to do the “hard wayâ€? in CRM 4.0 and a technique that is built into CRM 2011 The technique in question is retrieving a user’s security roles in order to […]
Continue readingAs I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been working on a tool to help developers convert their JavaScript from the CRM 4.0 to CRM 2011 object model. Well today, I am proud to say that the CRM Migration Assistant is officially released! Read more about it on our product page.
Continue readingI wasted more time than I want to think about on this, so here is a solution I hope will help anyone else generating an Excel worksheet and wanting to add Automatic Filtering. This is a full, working sample. Just take out the code I use to populate worksheet and insert your own. ConversionReportItems is […]
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