Every 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 readingLast week I was working with another Microsoft partner who was upgrading a customer’s Dynamics CRM from 2011 to 2015 when they ran into the following error moving to Dynamics CRM 2013 (which you must do, to get to 2015): Note: SdkMessageProcessingStep is the internal name for a plugin step, as configured using the Plugin […]
Continue readingAs I mentioned a couple of week ago, my upgrade from CRM 2013 to CRM 2015 did not go well. One of the issues is my SiteMap was totally broken and I had to replace it with the “default.” The only problem was I wiped out the custom entries for my marketing package, Click Dimensions. […]
Continue readingMy Dynamics CRM documentation tool, SnapShot!, version 3.7 is now available. This version includes the following enhancements and corrections: Compatibility with Dynamics CRM 2015 Online Update 1 The Entity and Field reports now have the GUID for each which I have found very useful when troubleshooting solution import issues. Organizations with a large amount of […]
Continue readingMy Dynamics CRM documentation tool, SnapShot!, version 3.7 is now available. This version includes the following enhancements and corrections: Compatibility with Dynamics CRM 2015 Online Update 1 The Entity and Field reports now have the GUID for each which I have found very useful when troubleshooting solution import issues. Organizations with a large amount of […]
Continue readingJust a reminder but registration ends on Thursday at Noon (CDT) so be sure to register before then. Turn your .NET Developer into a Dynamics CRM Developer If you have any questions, then please let me know. Thanks, Mitch
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Hi Everyone, I decided to formalize my mentoring program to hopefully open the door to more organizations. This is a process that I conduct for customers on a fairly regular basis which fills a niche and a requirement when you need assistance, but do not have the need or budget for a full-blown consulting engagement. […]
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I have been doing a lot of webinars lately through my Teaching Tuesdays program and in doing so, I am constantly refining my processes for all of the tasks that need to get completed before, during, and after the webinar. The Click Dimensions integration with GoToWebinar is a huge timesaver, in this regard, so I […]
Continue readingSo I am digging around the Dynamics CRM 2015 Spring Update, as I am apt to do, when I ran across something that needs to be changed. There is a recurring bulk delete job that automatically deletes any plug-in trace log records older than one day, as you can see below: This is a little […]
Continue readingYay Team! Here is a bright and shiny bit of newness that has been added to the Date field condition operators: So we now have the ability to query for things that are older than X: Minutes Hours Days Weeks Months Years Hat’s off to the CRM Dev team. This has been a long time […]
Continue readingSo if you have been reading my blog frequently over the past few months you will notice that I have been doing lot of mobile-related development, mostly with the Xamarin platform (which I absolutely love, btw). One of the projects that I’m working on will involve the use of beacon, or iBeacon, technology. I thought […]
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 readingYay! Finally, the good folks on the Dynamics CRM team have added the ability to log errors that occur in plugins and custom workflow activities. Plug-In Trace Log This is a new entity that we can access from the Settings, Customization area: Setup You need to enable the logging of exceptions to the plug-in […]
Continue readingThe Spring Release of Dynamics CRM 2015 includes a new forms engine. You may have seen reference to this feature by the code name “Turbo Forms.” The propaganda (marketing) says that we will get as much as a two or three times improvement in the rendering of a Dynamics CRM 2015 form. My limited testing […]
Continue readingThis year’s Convergence conference in Atlanta was a blast. Lots of new announcements for both the Dynamics product line as well as that of Azure. In case you missed it, you can access many of the sessions in the Convergence Video Library, which I urge you to review as your time permits. Convergence 2015 EMEA […]
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