Back in March I wrote the following article: Dynamics CRM Developer Tip O’ the Day: Working with Tabs. Today I was working on some pre-existing customer JavaScript and ran across this: Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(0).sections.get(6).setVisible(false); // Hide section Don’t ever do that! Bad developer! Bad! So again, never, ever use the numerical value to reference a Tab or […]
Continue readingEvery now and again I run into the unfortunate circumstance where someone has lost the source code to a Dynamics CRM plugin (or something similar). When you encounter this type of situation your only hope is to decompile the source using the plugin assembly’s DLL file and spend a good deal of time modifying the […]
Continue readingI learned an important lesson yesterday, again, on working with tabs with Dynamics CRM forms. There are several ways to reference tabs when writing JavaScript and using the Xrm.Page model. You may reference the tab by number, like this: Xrm.Page.ui.tabs.get(2) Note: Tabs are numbered starting with zero for the first tab. Or by name, like […]
Continue readingSo I have this open-source project that I created a couple of years ago that helps the Dynamics CRM .NET developer upgrade their code from Dynamics CRM 4.0 to the programming model we now use with Dynamics CRM, which started with Dynamics CRM 2011. I have only had 68 downloads of this project since […]
Continue readingSeveral of my tools generate Microsoft Excel and Word documents as part of their output and for the longest time, I have used various open-source libraries to provide me with OpenDocumentXML functionality to generate real worksheets and documents, instead of just CSV and plain text files. The only problem, especially with my SnapShot! documentation utility, […]
Continue readingAs most of you know, I have a several add-on products for Dynamics CRM developers, administrators, and consultants. They all share common user interface and application frameworks that I developed several years ago. When I first started writing these tools all I had to worry about was Dynamics CRM 4.0, which was pretty easy. Then […]
Continue readingSo one of my customers ran into this issue while opening an Opportunity. As you can see, a custom plugin was throwing an exception because it could not find a Account with a specified ID. That part is 100% correct. The Account with that ID indeed does not exist in the database. The problem is, […]
Continue readingLike most Xamarin developers I have a Mac setting on my desk. Unfortunately I do not find myself to be as productive on a Mac keyboard as I do on the Windows Keyboard. When Xamarin’s Visual Studio integration was released, and it became stable enough to develop with Visual Studio on my Windows workstation instead […]
Continue readingFellow MVP Jason Lattimer (@JLattimer) has released a really cool tool for us Dynamics CRM JavaScript developers: CRM Rest Builder This is a solution you install inside of Dynamics CRM with the main interface looking like this: Features We can utilize the following SDK methods: Retrieve RetrieveMultiple Create Update Delete Associate Disassociate Generated […]
Continue readingHere is a small method to help you determine if a User is a member of a specified Team: [wpgist id=”e0e8388971a81b023684″]
Continue readingHi Everyone, Since I think a lot of people never get around to searching the archives, I thought I’d mention a project I started a while ago to aid the .NET developer in moving your code to the Dynamics CRM 201x version. The project may be found here: https://crmdotnetmigrator.codeplex.com/ Project Description This project is designed […]
Continue readingI still occasionally run into hidden greatness inside of the Dynamics CRM SDK. Last week I found a great addition to the QueryExpression and QueryByAttribute classes: The TopCount property. This property was introduced into Dynamics CRM 2011 around the UR10-UR11 timeframe, so if you are on UR11, or later, or have Dynamics CRM 2013, you […]
Continue readingIn case you have ever wondered or needed to know, here is how you get the ID of the current user using .NET (C# in this case): var whoAmIResponse = (WhoAmIResponse)OrganizationService.Execute(new WhoAmIRequest()); var currentUser = new EntityReference(SystemUser.EntityLogicalName, whoAmIResponse.UserId);
Continue readingEvery now and then I run into an issue that I should have already known about. Either that, or I knew about it and later forgot. Regardless, let me tell you the story of the plug-in and the missing data. Background Let us say that I have a plug-in that is registered on the […]
Continue readingHi Everyone, I have just released version 2.6 of my JavaScript conversion tool: Transformer! for Dynamics CRM. You may read more about the update here. Thanks, Mitch
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