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CRM Activity Usage Report
by Danny Varghese 10.20.09

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My colleague Jeremy Hofmann has been busy at one of our clients providing them valuable solutions to meet their business needs. Below is another great example of how Jeremy has harnessed the customizability of CRM! Business Problem: Do your clients need...
CRM Custom Browse Folder
by Danny Varghese 10.17.09

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My colleague Jeremy Hofmann has been busy at one of our clients providing them valuable solutions to meet their business needs. Below is a great example of how Jeremy has harnessed the customizability of CRM! Business Problem: We’ve given the client a...
CRM Developer Ramp-Up Kit
by Danny Varghese 10.13.09

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Microsoft has a great article containing tools to help a CRM developer ramp up. The article includes presentations and labs that will help complement a developer's .NET skills to help build on top of the CRM 4.0 platform. The article contains links...
CRM & Multi-Tenancy
by Danny Varghese 10.08.09

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How does Microsoft Dynamics CRM handle multi-tenancy? What is multi-tenancy? These are the questions I often get from clients and other developers just interested in the CRM architecture. Multi-tenancy allows CRM to be deployed on a single server, but...
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The Other Blue Screen of Death: the Blank Report Pre-Filter
by Shelley Lane 04.16.09

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Upon opening a report with a pre-filter, you expect to be presented with a query builder that will allow you to search for accounts, contacts or other CRM entity by location, owner, or any other field on the respective entity. Something that looks like...
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Example Of Deactivating An Entity
by Danny Varghese 03.06.09

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One of the least published example of CRM code is deactivating an entity, probably because it's not used as often as creating, updating or retrieving entities. Below is an example I've used on several occasions to deactivate an entity: public...
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Example of Dynamic Entity Update
by Danny Varghese 03.05.09

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I have seen numerous requests on other blogs about sample code to on how to update entities in CRM. One way is to use the CRM web service to update business entities, however by doing so, you're only limited to out-of-the-box entities with system...
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E-mail Field - Open In Outlook or E-mail Activity
by Danny Varghese 03.04.09

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Here's a simple JavaScript customization to enable an e-mail field, once filled in, have a user double-click it and open your default e-mail client with the address in the "To" field. if(crmForm.FormType == 1 || crmForm.FormType == 2) {...
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Example of Dynamic Entity Create
by Danny Varghese 03.04.09

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There have been numerous requests on other blogs about sample code to on how to create entities in CRM. One way is to use the CRM web service to create business entities, however by doing so, you're only limited to out-of-the-box entities with system...
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Debugging CRM Plug-ins, Stored Procedures & Custom Workflow Activities
by Danny Varghese 02.24.09

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Whether it's developing CRM plug-ins, custom workflow activities, or writing stored procedures against the CRM database, the most useful tool I've used is the Microsoft Visual Studio Debugger. The debugger allows developers to step through the...
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CRM 4.0 Plug-in Registration Tool Walkthrough
by Danny Varghese 02.21.09

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The CRM 4.0 Plug-in registration tool is Microsoft's tool to register any plug-in developed for CRM 4.0 and callouts that were developed for CRM 3.0, but need to be upgraded to 4.0. In this article, I'd like to take a step by step walkthrough...
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Publishing Microsoft CRM 4.0 through ISA Server 2006
by Danny Varghese 02.21.09

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Here is a great article that illustrates how to publish Microsoft CRM 4.0 through ISA Server 2006: http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/07/23/publishing-microsoft-crm-4-0-through-isa-server-2006.aspx The article is broken up into the following...
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Rules To Better Microsoft CRM & SSRS
by Danny Varghese 02.21.09

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Below are some very useful links on standards for Microsoft CRM and SQL Server Reporting Services: http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Standards/Rules/RulestoBetterMicrosoftCRM.aspx http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Standards/Rules/RulesToBetterSQLReportingServices.aspx...
Adding A Filtered Lookup In CRM
by Danny Varghese 02.03.09

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Another common question I see in blogs from users are is there a way to add filtered lookups? That is only allow users to "lookup" certain records that related to that particular one. Here's a real life example: Say you have an account that...
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Example of Dynamic Entity Retrieval
by Danny Varghese 01.31.09

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There have been numerous requests on other blogs about sample code to on how to retrieve entities in CRM. One way is to use the CRM web service to retrieve business entities, however by doing so, you're only limited to out-of-the-box entities with...
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