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 […]
Continue readingJavaScript allows an administrator to enhance the functionality of Dynamics CRM 2011 in order to better fit your business processes. This Lunch and Learn session delivers an introduction to JavaScript development and will cover the following topics: Setting up your development environment Introduction to the form editor Using web resources CRM form events JavaScript basics […]
Continue readingWe have released a small update to the CRM Migration Assistant which includes the following updates: Added 0 and 1 as supported Submit Options Fixed issues with converting .AddOption to .addOption method. Conversion alerts were added for the following JavaScript properties: .title .vAlign .contentEditable .innerText Any .style property that is not either display or visible […]
Continue readingHI Everyone, If you have not heard, Dynamics CRM 2011 will very shortly support browsers other than Internet Explorer. I am absolutely unsure if this is a big deal for customers or not. So, I thought I’d ask. I’ve created a poll on my site that allows you to select which browsers you will be […]
Continue readingWhen working with things like Email, it is sometimes necessary to decode a string of text that has been HTML-encoded. This is the process where special characters are replaced with their numerical equivalents to prevent misinterpretation of the HTML text. You use it like this: string xmlPacket = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(input); This method is found inside of […]
Continue readingOne of the most fascinating things I found during the creation of the CRM Migration Assistant is the different methods developers use to access CRM form fields, and other form elements. Normally, people access a form field using the following style of JavaScript: crmForm.all.name This is the normal and perfectly acceptable (and supported) method for […]
Continue readingOne of the most fascinating things I found during the creation of the CRM Migration Assistant is the different methods developers use to access CRM form fields, and other form elements. Normally, people access a form field using the following style of JavaScript: crmForm.all.name This is the normal and perfectly acceptable (and supported) method for […]
Continue readingI learned some interesting things about working with Sandboxed plugins last week that I thought I’d share. Attaching to Processes Sandboxed plugins are run by Microsoft.Crm.Sandbox.WorkerProcess.exe so that is the process that you will need to attach to in order to debug your plugin. If there are more than one, then attach to all of […]
Continue readingI thought that I would outline some of the conversion techniques that we use in the CRM Migration Assistant to convert JavaScript from the CRM 4.0 object model to the CRM 2011 object model. Many of the techniques we used in CRM 4.0 were technically unsupported. But since work had to be done, we did […]
Continue readingAs I was reviewing notes from the recently released CRM SDK 5.0.9, I noticed a section on Error Codes. "This looks interesting," I thought. After you have installed the CRM SDK, navigate to the following folder: sdk\samplecode\cs\helpercode In that folder you will find, among other things, three files related to error codes, each in a […]
Continue readingIf you are developing a plugin, sooner or later you will need to do something in a plugin that requires "listening" to more than just Create, Read, Update, and Delete messages. What is a Message? If you are new to Dynamics CRM development, a Message word that is used to instruct CRM to do something. […]
Continue readingA CRM Organization’s unique name is the name of the organization as it referred to internally. For example, it’s the name of the SQL database. Usually, the organization unique name is simply the Friendly Name with any illegal characters ( spaces, punctuation, etc. ) removed from the name. For sample: CRM Accelerators is my friendly […]
Continue readingYou can download it here. For more information about this release, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 2600640: Update Rollup 6 is available for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 To maintain parity between the application components of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, this update rollup includes packages for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server, Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook, Microsoft […]
Continue readingThe Lead Entity within Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is used to track your relationship with prospective customers. At some point in the relationship, they change from being simply a Lead into either a customer or someone who is no longer a prospect. The Lead Qualification Process Here is how leads are generally worked by a […]
Continue readingIn case you didn’t know, Dynamics CRM 2011 has a basic mobile web site built into the product. You access the mobile site by adding /m to your CRM URL, like this: http://crm2011/contoso/m Which will produce a web page that looks like this: Here is what a view looks like: and finally, record detail: Now […]
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