Microsoft has released Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 2011 which fixes lot of issues pertaining to overall developer experience as described in Knowledge Base article 2547347 . This updates is available for the following under release 5.0.9688.1244. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Server Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 for Microsoft Office Outlook Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 E-mail Router... Continue Reading →
CRM4.0 mail merge for system entities like incident, product
I was trying to write a mail merge tempelate for incident and noticed that incident does not appear in the list for Associated Entity while creating a template. For all custom entities, mail merge is enable by default but for system entities. If you don't see the entity name in the dropdown, follow these steps:... Continue Reading →
unhandled Error in Silverlight 2 Application Code: 2103
I developed a Silverlight App for CRM2011 and deployed the XAP & HTML file as a web resource. While trying to view the HTML page, I got the following error: unhandled Error in Silverlight 2 Application Code: 2103 Category: InitializationError Message: Invalid or malformed application: Check manifest After looking through all posts online including msdn blogs, every... Continue Reading →
Input string was not in a correct format when you click on a Reports menu item in CRM 4.0
You created a custom view for reports and when you click on this item, Grid throws an error saying input string was not in correct format. You turn on the tracing and find the stack trace as below: System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info) at Microsoft.Crm.Application.Controls.ReportsGridUIProvider.RenderRow at Microsoft.Crm.Application.Controls.AppGridUIProvider.Render at Microsoft.Crm.Application.Components.UI.DataGrid.RenderData ... Continue Reading →
Custom Reports with CRM 2011 Online
Before starting reporting for CRM 2011 we need to verify that BIDS extension for 2011 beta is installed in the environment.Click here to download and install BIDS. There are more requirements which can be found in SDK topic "Create Custom Reports Using Business Intelligence Development Studio" After completing all the pre requisites, Follow these steps... Continue Reading →
Connect FetchXML Wizard to CRM 2011 beta Online
Follow these steps to connect fetchXML Wizard by Stunnware to CRM 2011 beta Online : 1.) Click here to download fetchXML wizard by Stunnware. 2.) Double Click on SwTools icon. It will open the Stunnware Tools for Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 window. Click Connect on the top left.3.) It will open up a CRM Server... Continue Reading →
CRM 4 to CRM 2011 JavaScript Converter Tool
Just found CRM 4.0 to CRM 2011 Javascript conversion tool. This could be useful to someone converting large javascript codebase. Thanks to Rhett Clinton Download Link
Error in connecting to CRM2011 Discovery Service
Issue: There is an error popping up when you try to connect to CRM 2011 discovery service from plugin registration tool. (click on image to enlarge) Reason: Plugin registration tool takes in the credentials saved in the temp folder for Microsoft Live when logging into CRM Online. We need to force the tool to use the credentials... Continue Reading →
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