If you have ever had to connect to IIS to perform remote debugging you have probably encountered an situation where you have more than one IIS worker process running. This worker process, w3wp.exe, is responsible for running the IIS web site and depending upon the number of web sites that you may have on a […]
Continue readingThere are occasions where you need to abort the saving of a record within CRM. This is accomplished by using JavaScript to instruct CRM to prevent the default action ( which is a save operation ). This requires a small piece of JavaScript in the OnSave Event which we will do in the following steps: […]
Continue readingI am going to admit up front I may be the only person using CRM 2011 to have this problem, but just in case there is another developer out there, I wanted to share a little best practice that I have taught myself. When navigating the CRM 2011 customization treeview it is easy to become […]
Continue readingHi Everyone, I am really enjoying Convergence 2011 this week so I thought I would pass along some great news and even greater news about the CRM Migration Assistant, our JavaScript conversion tool. Great News In honor of Convergence 2011, we’re offering a 10% discount through Sunday, April 17th. Just enter the code: CONV11 upon […]
Continue readingI was thinking about adding to the list of podcasts that I listen to and was curious if anyone has any opinions about good developer-oriented podcasts. Here is my current list: http://www.dotnetrock.com/ http://hanselminutes.com/ http://runasradio.com/ http://thisdeveloperslife.com/ If you have other recommendations, please leave a comment or send me a tweet. Thanks, Mitch
Continue readingIf you plan on writing anything that uses the CRM 2011 SDK, you may at some point run into the following error message: The application terminated with an error. Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Solution: You need […]
Continue readingI guess I was low on memory or some such thing this morning and VS2010 got all kinds of “wonky� made up a bunch of errors that didn’t exist then finally spit out this message: Restarting VS solved the issue.
Continue readingVia ScottGu: An extension has been added to Visual Studio 2010 to enhance the JavaScript coding experience. JScript Editor Extensions Overview Bundles the following extensions for the Visual Studio 2010 JScript editor: Brace Matching Adds support for automatically highlighting the matching opening or closing brace to the one currently at the cursor. Supports matching […]
Continue readingI wasted more time than I want to think about on this, so here is a solution I hope will help anyone else generating an Excel worksheet and wanting to add Automatic Filtering. This is a full, working sample. Just take out the code I use to populate worksheet and insert your own. ConversionReportItems is […]
Continue readingI have been noticing lately that the Build Configuration dropdown list that is normally found the the Standard Toolbar is missing from my Visual Studio 2010 installation. After a bit of digging around the Internet, I found a solution, which I’ll document further here. The Procedure 1) Select Tools, Customize… 2) Click the Commands tab […]
Continue readingThis morning I was adding some functionality to my Dynamics Tutorials site and needed to determine if a user was a member of a specific marketing list. No problem, I thought. I opened up the most excellent Stunnware Tools to create the query. The only problem is that the Marketing List Member entity, listmember, does […]
Continue readingOver the past several years, I have read and seen multiple references to a practice called Visualization, which is when a person rehearses a physical action by performing the task mentally. Examples that come to mind are the NASA astronaut training program, Olympic athletes, and the Navy’s Blue Angels. Note: You can perform an Internet […]
Continue readingWhile digging around the Net today, I ran across an extremely valuable color chart for cascading style sheets. They actually created the chart by scanning paint samples from a major household paint manufacturer. The samples art well organized and they provide facilities that show the color values in both Hex and RGB.
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