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While working on the solution for stuck emails, I needed values for various status reasons for email entity to intelligently hide/display RESEND button depending on email record status. Quick look in local SDK help yielded zilch. Online version – bupkis. Hmmm, I do remember metadata pages in 2011… Ah, here it is and, indeed, there […]
Tip #98: CRM SDK is now online
In case you don’t spend your afternoons lazily browsing MSDN pages online and missed this news, CRM SDK is now available online. Is it such a big deal? Not really, because you can always download latest SDK but Online version is always up-to-date When in need of a reference whilst discussing development topics, we can […]
Tip #72: Granular notifications for end users
Today’s tip was supposed to be called “Why it’s very important to keep your SDK up to date” but instead I named it after the updated functionality that was added to CRM Online, released for onpremises in UR1 and documented in the December update of the SDK. Previously, if you wanted to notify user about […]
Tip #44: Reflecting current user in CRM SSRS reports
It is a best practice to reflect the user running the report in an SSRS report and when the report was run in the report footer. This gives you a snapshot of who ran the report, and if there are any questions about the validity of the data reflected in the report, can be very helpful […]
Tip #38: Get Dynamics CRM SDK 6.02
If you’ve been rigorously following our tips, you should have downloaded Update Rollup 1 for CRM 2013 by now. If you are a developer at heart, you’d want latest Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK as well and, what do you know, version 6.02 has recently been released. Despite seemingly unimportant version number, this is no ordinary […]
Tip #30: Use ConnectionDialog for easy connection to CRM
If you’re writing Windows Forms or WPF application that needs to connect to a number of Dynamics CRM organizations on ad-hoc basis, e.g. custom tool, then try using ConnectionDialog class instead of home-grown connection code. It is very surprising how little attention receive CRM Developers Extensions in general and a little obscure but very handy […]
Tip #29: Solve missing permission issues
Sometimes, especially when you upgrade CRM or you add new entities, one of your users may see an error message like this: This error means that the user’s security role is missing a permission required for the object they are trying to view or the action they are trying to do. In this example, the […]
Tip #17: Search SDK like a pro
One good thing about local copy of the Dynamics CRM SDK documentation is that it restricts the search to the SDK itself. Local copy can be searched without usual distractions of online search like advertisements or third-party posts about SDK. Either 2011 or 2013 version of SDK can be downloaded, then installed and searched locally. […]