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About Bernado

Based in Australia, I am a freelance SharePoint and Dynamics CRM developer. I love developing innovative solutions that address business and everyday problems. Feel free to contact me if you think I can help you with your SharePoint or CRM implementation.

Deploy current project’s assembly to CRM with new shortcut keys in CRMQuickDeploy 2.7

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Bernado

A developer’s time should be spent on the logic/design of the application rather than on the repetitive motion of deploying code to the server during the dev-test-debug cycles. This is why CRMQuickDeploy includes shortcut keys that enable you to quickly deploy … Continue reading →

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SPClientSideDeployment 3.1 brings support for minified JS/CSS and seamless dev-prod transition

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Bernado

I have just released version 3.1 of SPClientSideDeployment with added support for minified JS/CSS. You are now able to include minified files in the deployment package that the tool generates, and instruct the generated PowerShell script to use them during … Continue reading →

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Setting HTML content for Content Editor Web Part by code

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Bernado

To set the content of a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) by code you need to set the Content property of the ContentEditorWebPart class. There is an example of how to do this in the aforementioned MSDN link. There is however … Continue reading →

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SPClientSideDeployment 3.0 adds auto-deploy on save option and support for compilable JS and CSS

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Bernado

I have just released version 3.0 of SPClientSideDeployment with two major enhancements: Auto-deploy on save: when this option is enabled, files will automatically be deployed to SharePoint each time you save them Support for compilable JavaScript and CSS: the tool detects … Continue reading →

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Enabling native TypeScript support in other project types in Visual Studio 2015

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Bernado

Native TypeScript support in Visual Studio 2015 is not available for all project types by default. As far as I’m aware, it is only available for the ASP.NET Web Application project type. Sometime, you may be working with TypeScript but … Continue reading →

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How to hide custom sub-grid ribbon button in Advanced Find results [CRM]

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Bernado

With RibbonDiff you can add a custom button to the ribbon of a sub-grid. You can further add a display rule to only show this button when the sub-grid is being shown within the form of a particular parent entity type. This is … Continue reading →

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New version of SPClientSideDeployment adds support for folder-based file deployment and automatic folder creation

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Bernado

I have just released version 2.0 of SPClientSideDeployment with two major enhancements: Folder-based file deployment – this allows you to define a local folder in the DeploymentSettings.xml file. All files under this folder (and its sub-folders) will be processed by the tool. … Continue reading →

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CRMQuickDeploy 2.6 adds RibbonDiff deployment from Visual Studio

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Bernado

Rather than storing the ZIP solution in source control, some project teams choose to store the source code of each individual component instead, for example by using the SolutionPackager tool. This allow team members to easily track changes to components … Continue reading →

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New deployment context menu in SPClientSideDeployment 1.2

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Bernado

I have just released version 1.2 of SPClientSideDeployment. This version adds a “Deploy to SharePoint” context menu to files and folders in the Solution Explorer. With this addition, you can now selectively deploy files that you typically don’t open in … Continue reading →

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Getting entity type code from CRM UI for an entity

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Bernado

Entity type code for custom entities may be different across environments. Sometime you may need to work out the entity name from an entity type code, for example when CRM throws an error message at you. Here is a quick way to … Continue reading →

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