One of my products has been acting “funny” for a while and I have not been able to figure out what exactly the problem was, until this past weekend. I display the application version number on the status bar and after an update (unknown as to what, Windows, VS, or what), it started showing 0.0.0.0. […]
Continue readingAs of 15 May 2017, here is a list of the current Dynamics 365 Online regions: North America (crm.dynamics.com) South America (crm2.dynamics.com) Canada (crm3.dynamics.com) EMEA (crm4.dynamics.com) APAC (crm5.dynamics.com) Australia (crm6.dynamics.com) Japan (crm7.dynamics.com) India (crm8.dynamics.com) North America 2-for Government (crm9.dynamics.com) United Kingdom (crm11.dynamics.com) Microsoft Cloud Germany (crm.microsoftdynamics.de)
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Hi Everyone, I wanted to remind you that registration for next week’s Dynamics 365/CRM JavaScript Development workshop will end at 12:00pm CST on Monday, January 16th.. The goal of the class is for me to give you a very thorough introduction to using JavaScript within Dynamics CRM. When: This workshop will be held over a […]
Continue readingMany of my training classes mention this list of the various Dynamics CRM SDKs so I thought I would post it here for safe-keeping. Dynamics CRM 2011: http://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=24004 Dynamics CRM 2013: http://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=40321 Dynamics CRM 2015: http://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=44567 Dynamics CRM 2016: https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=50032 Dynamics 365: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50032 ** this is the same as the 2016 SDK
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One of my customers learned (hopefully) a very important lesson this week regarding the protection of their Dynamics CRM/365 assets. In this case: Customizations, but it applies to any asset that is created or modified by hand. #1: Solution Repository First and foremost, have a location that everyone has access to, that is regularly backed-up […]
Continue readingHappy Friday Everyone, I just released a free Introduction to JavaScript Training Guide for those of you who are looking to expanding your Dynamics CRM skills into the client-code area. This is just a simple series of exercises that walk you through the basics of JavaScript that you will need to know and understand when […]
Continue readingThe SDK for Dynamics CRM 2016 has been updated. You may download it here. Release history for SDK Version 8.0.2, February 2016 SDK\Bin Updated the assemblies for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2016 Update and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 (on-premises). Create early bound entity classes with the code generation tool (CrmSvcUtil.exe) Added two new command line […]
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All of my Dynamics CRM-related utilities have, until this point, been built and maintained with Visual Studio 2010, which is really not a personal choice, but of of practicality. Most of the reasoning behind this decision is led by some technology changes introduced in later versions of Visual Studio (2013 mostly) as well as some […]
Continue readingEarlier this month I gave a talk to several groups of 8th graders at a middle school where a friend of mine teaches. I talked to them about what it was like to be a software developer, what I did, what my day was like, and what they would need to do if they chose […]
Continue readingIf you are ever working with any code that needs to upload attachments to Dynamics CRM, you may run into an issue where your attachment is larger than the default of 5MB. To prevent errors from occurring, you can check the Organizational Setting for the maximum upload file size, using code like this: public int […]
Continue readingOccasionally, when working with .NET and the Dynamics CRM SDK, you’ll find a need to see if the current user has a particular security role. This is helpful before performing any operation that may result in a security exception. Here is a small method to handle that call: public bool UserHasSecurityRole(OrganizationService service, string securityRoleName) { […]
Continue readingHere are a few notes I’ve collected while working with a Dynamics CRM project involving dialog processes: Required Fields There is not a feature to allow a dialog field to be required, Dynamics CRM Tip of the Day, Tip #391: Mandatory fields in dialogs discusses a possible work around. Float Data Field One of the […]
Continue readingIf you are creating a mobile application that uses the Azure Active Directory Access Library (ADAL) component, you will need to learn how and when errors are returned from the component. Here are a few to get you started: Error Messages #1: User presses the cancel button on the first login page If the user […]
Continue readingIn yesterday’s post, Tracing the Dynamics CRM Form Data save Operation, I discussed identifying data that would be sent to the database when you saved a Dynamics CRM record. Part of the issue I was facing was related to the form not completing the save operation before I opened a new form record. Since Dynamics […]
Continue readingI ran into an interesting issue this week where I was opening up a new Opportunity Entity form from the Account record via a Command Bar button. The issue was that I was getting a warning that I was about to discard changes to the record I was leaving, and would l like to Continue […]
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