Marc Schweigert of Microsoft has released more goodness for Dynamics CRM Developers. His latest is this: Unit testing CRM 2011 JavaScript web resources This is in addition to this technique for plug-in developers: How I develop and unit test CRM 2011 plugins Also of interest is today’s presentation of Team Development with Shan McArthur […]
Continue readingEach CRM organization has two names associated with it: The Friendly Name This is the name that is displayed in the user interface: The Unique Name This is the name of the database and can be found on the Developer Resources page, under Settings, Customization: The CRM Discover Service contains a message called: RetrieveOrganizationsRequest […]
Continue readingThe ultimate documentation tool for Dynamics CRM 2011 extracts and consolidates the following components: System Settings Entities Fields Relationships Views Forms Option Sets Security Roles Field Security Solutions Web Resources Plugins Processes Templates Business units Users Teams Queues Pricing SnapShot! will be priced at $49 per CRM organization. For More Information Visit the […]
Continue readingThe ultimate documentation tool for Dynamics CRM 2011 extracts and consolidates the following components: System Settings Entities Fields Relationships Views Forms Option Sets Field Security Solutions Web Resources Plugins Processes Templates Business units Users Teams Queues Pricing SnapShot! will be priced at $49 per CRM organization. For More Information Visit the product page […]
Continue readingHi Everyone, Sometime this week I’ll be releasing SnapShot! for Dynamics CRM 2011. Overview I work with organizations all of the world and find it necessary to to collect as much information about the CRM installation as possible, in order to educate myself as to what has been done to the system so that we […]
Continue readingThere may be times when developing custom Dynamics CRM components that errors occur which may or may not involve your code. This, of course, has never happened to me because I write bug-free code all of the time-but I have seen it happen to other developers. Any, you may find yourself staring at an error […]
Continue readingOccasionally 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 […]
Continue readingI got my author’s copies of The CRM Field Guide today: Find out more at http://crmfieldguide.com
Continue readingI am holding the first-ever JavaScripting with Dynamics CRM 2011 Deep Dive workshop. This workshop is going to be a little different than most because in addition to the in-person training and discussions, we’ll also be conducting two 1-hour follow-on sessions in the weeks following the class to answer any questions that may have arose […]
Continue readingYou can now purchase the Kindle edition of Dynamics Deep Dive: Security directly from Amazon.com or the Kindle Store.
Continue readingHandling exceptions is an important part of any development effort. In the past few months, I’ve run across several instances where exceptions are not being properly handled in custom workflow activities. Normally, this doesn’t actually cause issues with the workflows in which the custom workflow activities are being used: The workflow step will fail with […]
Continue readingI was verifying some data in one of my CRM Online instances when I noticed something about Marketing Lists that had never caught my eye. The process of adding a person (Contact, Lead, Account) to a Marketing List can vary depending on how you do it. Here are the two methods that are available: Method […]
Continue readingMy Dynamics CRM Deep Dive: Security book is now in available in the Apple iBookstore. Here is the link. You can download a sample of the book that can be read in the iBook application on your IOS device (iPhone, iPad, etc. ). It’s taken a bit longer than I would have hoped to get […]
Continue readingI my class last week we were discussing customizing CRM and the need to translate custom text and option set labels into other languages. Last weekend, by accident, I found this topic: Create Solutions That Support Multiple Languages Which discusses a variety of techniques related to custom solutions and handling multiple languages. The specific sub-topic […]
Continue readingHi Everyone, Amazon.com has expanded their distribution channels in Europe so you may now purchase my book from the following properties: United Kingdom: Amazon.co.uk Germany: Amazon.de France: Amazon.fr Italy: Amazon.it Spain: Amazon.es Thanks, Mitch
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