Category Archives: CRM

Introducing a new productivity Visual Studio extension for CRM developers

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Bernado

New in 3.9: Added support for Portal content snippets New in 3.8: Added support for client ID/secret and MFA New in 3.7: Automatic Portal cache refresh (xRM CE Portal only) New in 3.6: Auto-deployment of linked items New in 3.5.3: … Continue reading →

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‘Plug-in assembly does not contain the required types or assembly content cannot be updated.’ when importing CRM solution

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Bernado

I was importing a simple solution with a few plugins into my Test environment and got this error message: Plug-in assembly does not contain the required types or assembly content cannot be updated. Apparently this can occur for a number of … Continue reading →

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Showing the ‘records associated with this view’ button for sub-grids in CRM

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Bernado

Sub-grids on CRM forms typically have a button that takes you to a view showing all records associated with the main record, as shown below. Have you ever wondered how to remove this button or add it back? The visibility … Continue reading →

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Connector for Dynamics: ‘Could not find key [ID field] in Dictionary for entity’ when mapping to custom entity in CRM

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Bernado

Using the Connector for Dynamics I was mapping an entity in GP 2010 to a custom entity in CRM 2013. In this case the schema name of my custom CRM entity is ng_courseinvoice (the display name is Course Invoice). When the map is … Continue reading →

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Getting formatted value/label for OptionSetValue in early-binding

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Bernado

In the CRM SDK, when you retrieve the value of an Option Set attribute for an entity, only the integer value is returned. This is true for both early and late binding. To retrieve the formatted value, i.e. the corresponding … Continue reading →

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Retrieving related records using RetrieveRequest in CRM

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Bernado

Retrieving related records in CRM may not be straightforward for someone starting out in CRM development. I previously wrote about how you can do this using QueryExpression and LinkEntity. However, I recently learnt of another, and probably better, approach using RetrieveRequest. … Continue reading →

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Retrieving related records in an N:N relationship using QueryExpression in CRM

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Bernado

This post explains how the QueryExpression class can be used in conjunction with IOrganizationService.RetrieveMultiple() in CRM 2013 to retrieve related records for an entity in an N:N relationship. This is something that I could not find much documentation on, and it … Continue reading →

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Form notification with timeout in CRM 2013

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Bernado

Form and field notification are new to CRM 2013 and there have already been quite a few posts about these. I was playing around with form notification and wanted to display an Info notification that would automatically go away after … Continue reading →

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CRM 2013: Web.config error (HTTP 500.19) after installing .NET Framework 4.5

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Bernado

I had a vanilla installation of CRM 2013 running smoothly on Windows Server 2008 R2. I installed Visual Studio 2013, which adds .NET Framework 4.5. I then started getting the error below when browsing to CRM: HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal … Continue reading →

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