Daily Archives: November 15, 2012

2 CRM Metadata, upgrades, and strangeness

Occasionally you run into very strange issues retrieving metadata from a Dynamics CRM organization that has been through an upgrade process. There are installations in the wild that started with v1.2 or 3.0 then were upgraded to 4.0 then 2011. For some reason, organizations that went though this process can sometimes have incomplete metadata. I […]

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4 Reading PDF form fields using iTextSharp

Here’s a quick bit of code to help you extract data from a PDF with form fields: Open the PDF: var pdfReader = new PdfReader(filename);   Read the field names: var fieldList = GetFormFieldNames(pdfReader); Read the field names with values: var fieldList = GetFormFieldNamesWithValues(pdfReader);   The code that does all of the work: private static […]

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