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0 How much space are my Attachments using, part deux

In the first article we discussed using SQL to determine the size of the Attachments in the database. My friend Aron Fischman shared with me similar queries using FetchXml: <!–Email Attachment File Size Analysis–> <fetch distinct=’false’ mapping=’logical’ aggregate=’true’> <entity name=’activitymimeattachment’> <attribute name=’activitymimeattachmentid’ alias=’EmailAttachmentCount’ aggregate=’count’/> <attribute name=’filesize’ alias=’FileSizeSum’ aggregate=’sum’/> <attribute name=’filesize’ alias=’FileSizeAvg’ aggregate=’avg’/> <attribute name=’filesize’ […]

2 New Upgrade Tool Released: Kill Plugin

There are occasions which some of us may experience during or shortly after the upgrade of a Dynamics CRM 4.0 system to CRM 2011 where we discover we have plugins that cannot be removed by the Plugin Registration Tool. Most of the time this is caused by the plugin being registered as "on disk" and […]

2 Error: Proxy type with the name account has been defined by another assembly

I am a big fan of the Simplified Connection technology added by the Xrm.Client assembly and use it almost exclusively. Recently, I ran into the same issue at two separate customers. Both had just converted from CRM 4.0 and both had plugins and custom ASP.NET web pages in use. Occasionally, the following exception would be […]

5 Date.js and Dynamics CRM 2011

In a word: NO. I recently added the JavaScript date library Date.js to an installation to get some date calculation functionality. It worked great but totally broke the CRM date controls. After much troubleshooting and some helpful advice from my friend Tanguy, I realized Date.js was incompatible with CRM and I had to remove it […]

0 Retrieving the OptionSet Label using JavaScript

I was adding some custom JavaScript to a customer’s Opportunity Entity when I, again, learned the importance of not over-thinking things. I was concatenating three field values and using that combined value to set the value of another field. Unfortunately, one of those fields was an OptionSet. The problem with OptionSets is that when you […]

0 Contracts, Renewals, and Plugins

I ran into an interesting issue today during a CRM 4.0 upgrade to 2011. We have a plugin that automatically generates a Contract Detail record when a Contract is created. This is because Contracts need at least one detail record but the customer is not using the actual details. The issue arose when the Contract […]

0 Associating Marketing Lists and Campaigns

I ran across an unusual SDK topic last week that I thought I would share. I need to associate a Campaign with a Marketing List. This should be a pretty simple Associate operation but it turns out, if you try to use the standard Associate Request, like one of these three methods (all of which […]

0 .NET Upgrade: Interesting Workflow Activity Upgrade Issue

I ran into an interesting issue today upgrading a custom workflow activity. I received this error: <OrganizationServiceFault xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <ErrorCode>-2147200995</ErrorCode> <ErrorDetails xmlns:a="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Collections.Generic" /> <Message>Duplicate workflow activity group name: ”, activity name: ‘Assign email regarding to case’.</Message> <Timestamp>2013-06-14T19:45:24.1533902Z</Timestamp> <InnerFault> <ErrorCode>-2147200995</ErrorCode> <ErrorDetails xmlns:a="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Collections.Generic" /> <Message>Duplicate workflow activity group name: […]

0 New Open-Source Project: .NET Code Migrator for Dynamics CRM

I have been doing a lot of CRM upgrades lately and one of the side-effects of this process is a lot of documentation and tooling to help the .NET developer move their code to the CRM 2011 object model. If you did not know, or have not heard, the next version of CRM, code-named Orion, […]

0 JavaScript Upgrade Strategies webinar follow-up

The recording today’s webinar is now up: http://www.xrmvirtual.com/events/javascript_upgrade_crm2011_Mitch_Milam Here are the main talking points from today’s meeting: Strategies: Here are the strategies I follow when performing an upgrade from CRM 4.0 to CRM 2011: #1: Create a test environment #2: Upgrade your object model #3: Use Visual Studio (with add-ins) #4: Reorganize your functions #5: […]

0 Don’t throw away your CRM 4.0 SDK just yet

So we’re two and a half years into the realm of CRM 2011 with the next version, code-named Orion, just over the horizon somewhere. You’ve got to be thinking to yourself: "Well, I guess I can delete that CRM 4.0 SDK folder since it’s taking up disk space and I’m down to only 489GB. Not […]

1 CRM Developer Tip o’ the Day: Working with PartyLists

I ran into an issue in a plugin this week where I needed to decode the To and From fields of an Email. While this doesn’t seem like a huge task, these fields are of the type PartyList, which can be somewhat difficult to work with, at times. I found the following response by Thomas […]

1 Dynamics CRM development and the new auto-save feature

The Dynamics CRM 2011 December 2012 service update (otherwise code-named Polaris) gave us the new Flow-UI forms. These forms include an auto-save feature that can, and probably will, effect the way we CRM developers approach our work. If you have not investigated the side-effects and other design-considerations for this new feature, please take a look […]

1 Worst-Ever Mobile Login Design Experience

This has to be the worst design of any mobile application that I use: Do you see the big blue button? Would it not seem that since it is the largest on the screen, it is the most important and/or most powerful? Uh, no. It is the most infuriating. Pressing that button will erase […]

1 CRM SDK Nugget: Entity.ToEntityReference Method

Here is another cool Entity extension method that I keep forgetting to use: Entity.ToEntityReference. Normally, when creating a reference to an Entity, we would use something like this: RetrieveRequest request2 = new RetrieveRequest { Target = new EntityReference(Account.EntityLogicalName, account2.Id), ColumnSet = new ColumnSet(), RelatedEntitiesQuery = new RelationshipQueryCollection() }; However, if we have already gone to […]

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