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CRM 2011 – MB2-876 Exam Study Notes
I found a great study guide from the blog MSCRM Geek on the blog post below http://www.mscrmgeek.com/post/2012/05/09/MB2-876-Exam-Study-Notes.aspx The study guide is 107 pages long If you want to download just the guide go here MB2-876 Extending CRM 2011 Exam Notes.docx (1.92 mb) I have to say it’s very generous of Jason Weibel to put his notes up […]
CRM 2011 – Advanced Bag of Tips & Tricks for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Developers
October 30, 2012
I bumped into this video this week and was very interested. I don’t often see videos aimed for CRM Developers and even if you only get one tip out of the video it will be worth it when you use it over and over. In TechEd New Zealand 2012 Gayan Perera pretested the presentation: Advanced Bag of […]
CRM 2011 – “No Organization has been specified” in Visual Studio CRM 2011 Solution
October 24, 2012
I opened a visual studio CRM 2011 solution and got the message “No Organization has been specified” hmmm, I thought and then annoyingly I wasn’t able to add an organisation because the CRM Explorer toolbar was greyed out and inactive. After sniffing around the files and the internet I found this forum post http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en/crmdevelopment/thread/b946a175-07ed-443f-85cc-6d2caea6c1a9 So […]
CRM 2011 – getting the state of a record and using setStateDynamicEntity
October 5, 2012
This week I was trying to trigger a workflow when a User record was disabled/enabled. I haven’t written a workflow triggered by a change of state before and it is a little bit unusual. Like many organisations we have Users and then replicate the users in a company and contacts. I was hoping to trigger […]
CRM 2011 – Debugging plugins using the Plugin Registration tool
June 18, 2012
I was having a bit of a nightmare debugging my plugins. The plugin was working in my test case but when I deployed it and tried to run it from CRM, I was getting errors. I had tried to setup remote debugging which I have done before but this time I was having problems because […]
CRM 2011 – CRM Developer Toolkit – Error registering plugins and/or workflows. Supported deployment does not agree with message availability
May 18, 2012
I got the error whilst trying to deploy a plugin using the CRM development toolkit Error 1 Error registering plugins and/or workflows. Supported deployment does not agree with message availability C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\CRM\Microsoft.CrmDeveloperTools.CrmClient.targets 176 4 CrmPackage This was an odd error and I couldn’t work out what was causing it. if you try and search […]
CRM 2011 – Displaying images for a contact
April 3, 2012
A quick blog post to point you in the direction of a couple of exellent tools to display images in for a contact (or other entities). The timing of this was a day too late (for me) because I had written a basic way to display images yesterday and then today I find the solution […]
CRM 2011 – displaying similar quote products in a subgrid by injecting FetchXML
April 2, 2012
I had a requirement this week where a customer was adding products to a quote and when they selected a product they then want to see previous quotes which featured the same product and the price and quantity it sold for. Basically the sales person wanted to see what the product had been sold for […]
CRM 2011 – Setting a user lookup with the logged in user with Javascript
March 21, 2012
Sometimes you need to log the current user in a User Lookup. Xrm.Page.context.getUserId() if you wanted to set a user lookup field you would need to do this meta_aurarrangedby is a user lookup field This will set the correct guid but the user name will be blank until the page is reloaded if you want […]
CRM 2011 – Solutions and publisher prefix
March 19, 2012
When I modify an organisation I usually make a new Publisher with Metaphorix the company I work for and other details. I also change the prefix on the publisher to meta, so I can easily tell all the fields I have added. When you create an organisation CRM automatically creates a publisher called default publisher […]
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About the Hosk
I'm a Dynamics CRM Developer - Consultant based in Birmingham, UK.
Certifications
CRM 4.0 Applications
CRM 4.0 Customization and Configuration
CRM 4.0 Installation and Deployment
CRM 4.0 Extending Microsoft Dynamics
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