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Continue readingTwenty-One Lessons in Twenty-One Days I have conducted a lot of training over the past two years but found that I was always missing connections to new students, mostly due to scheduling conflicts or just by them having too busy a schedule to take off work for a couple of days. Even after I […]
Continue readingTwenty-One Lessons in Twenty-One Days I have conducted a lot of training over the past two years but found that I was always missing connections to new students, mostly due to scheduling conflicts or just by them having too busy a schedule to take off work for a couple of days. Even after […]
Continue readingAgain, since we are in refactor mode, now is the time to fix all of your previous decisions. Some, or in some cases, many of those decisions involved using unsupported JavaScript. In the days of Dynamics CRM 4.0, we had to do a lot of unsupported code to provide the responsive user experience we needed […]
Continue readingWhen developing in Dynamics CRM, sooner or later you will find a requirement to perform some type of database operation. In Dynamics CRM 4.0 we had to the choice of creating raw SOAP requests or by using a library from Ascenitum (later Avanade), to perform these operations. When upgrading to Dynamics CRM 2011, you have […]
Continue readingI ran into this issue again and although I am sure I write about it before, I can’t find a reference to it. The Scenario In Dynamics CRM 4.0 it was quite common for companies (on-premise) to have custom ASP.NET pages that were shown within the context of the Dynamics CRM web site. Since they […]
Continue readingWhen your Dynamics CRM 4.0 JavaScript is converted to the Dynamics CRM 2011 object model, all of the events are consolidated into a single web resource that may look something like this: As you can see from each of the OnChange events above, you can end up with a situation where all the […]
Continue readingContinuing on our refactor process, we enter the code consolidation phase. This includes the following processes: Remove duplicate functions One of the features of Transformer! is to identify duplicate functions when performing the conversion process but you can always just hunt these down manually, if necessary. There are actually two types of duplicates that […]
Continue readingOne of my absolute joys when upgrading a Dynamics CRM organization from 4.0 to 2011 is the chance you get to actually remove JavaScript from your system. Remember: Code that you do not have, is code you do not have to maintain. Part of the consolidation process is to remove as much JavaScript as you […]
Continue readingWhen designing or re-designing JavaScript Web Resources, there are a few practices that I like to follow: One web resource per entity Create one resource for each entity. This resource will contain JavaScript functionality related specifically to that entity. One web resource per entity ribbon If you have JavaScript called from Ribbon configuration […]
Continue readingHere is a fairly typical view of the function tree of a Dynamics CRM 4.0 organization for the Account entity: As you can see, we have our OnLoad function with various functions embedded within it. This was done so that those functions would be available later, to other functions, such as the OnChange […]
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 readingOne of the best practices a Dynamics CRM developer can follow is to use Visual Studio to edit your JavaScript. Combine the basic functionality with an add-in like Resharper, and you have a very productive development environment. Here’s why: Intellisense Visual Studio provides both intellisense and the ability to visually identify coding errors. This alone […]
Continue readingThe XRM Toolbox for Dynamics CRM is a collection of utilities for Dynamics CRM developers and administrators, written by fellow MVP Tanguy TOUZARD. The Toolbox received an update today that includes two new tools: User Settings Utility Update user settings in bulk. Metadata Browser Browse metadata without installing solution in your organization. Other […]
Continue readingOne of my SnapShot! customers ran into what could be one of the strangest anomaly’s this week that I thought I would document here, so that other people (including myself) can find it. They were running SnapShot! against a Dynamics CRM 2011 organization as they were prototyping to move to Dynamics CRM 2011. The organization […]
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