As Guido “Future Olive Farmer” Preite has discovered, sometimes CrmServiceClient may connect to the wrong instance. Just like that. Dynamics 365 instances now can be backed up and restored at will. The side-effect of this awesomeness is that URLs and unique names may no longer match, leading to the fun times with connections. Here’s the […]
Tip #777: So long Microsoft.Xrm.Client and thanks for all the fish
At the beginning of the year we reported some ongoing issues with CrmServiceClient and recommended continuing use of Microsoft.Xrm.Client. The issues reported have been resolved and, as of now, there are no compelling reasons to use Microsoft.Xrm.Client. If you’re starting new project then the choice is trivial – simply use nuget packages for XrmTooling and […]
Tip #773: Video Guide to PowerApps Connection Options
In this video we look at how to create a PowerApp, and connect to the Dynamics 365 instance. We talk about some of the basic commands available and how to work with them. Give us your feedback, all of it: good, bad, and ugly, I’m sure we can take it. Suggest new topics either in […]
Tip #575: Check your clocks
tl;dr If you receive an error “An error occurred when verifying security for the message” when connecting to Dynamics CRM, verify that the clocks on the client and the servers are no further than 5 minutes apart. Just a bit longer Code that was working yesterday refuses to run and spits an error on the […]