Microsoft. Xrm. Client (Part 3a): CachedOrganizationService

In this series we have been looking at the Developer Extensions provided by the Microsoft.Xrm.Client assembly: Part 1 - CrmOrganizationServiceContext and when should I use it? Part 2 - Simplified Connection Management & Thread Safety This 3rd part in the series demonstrates when and how to us... [More]

Multi-Entity Search with SparkleXRM

The new tablet client for Dynamics CRM 2013 has a fantastic looking multi-entity search but it is not yet available in the Web Client. I thought this would be a good opportunity to create another SparkleXRM sample to achieve a similar feature with Dynamics CRM 2011. You can check out the sample by... [More]

User Impersonation in Plugins, Workflow and Dialogs

I've recently had a few questions around the UserId and InitiatingUserId properties of the execution context, so I thought I'd attempt to clear up any confusion. The simple fact around user impersonation in Dynamics CRM is that it isn't simple! I could write pages on the subject but instead here ar... [More]

jQuery and jQuery UI with Dynamics CRM 2011 & 2013

Since I’ve been converting Silverlight web resources over to Html & JavaScript and working on www.SparkleXrm.com , I’ve worked extensively with jQuery and jQuery-UI. In the early days of Dynamics CRM 2011, you could use both these libraries without a problem, but with the Activity F... [More]

Compare customisations between two Dynamics CRM Organisations

Your TEST customisations are always the same as your PRODUCTION customisations, because no changes are made direct to PRODUCTION – right? Really? Are you sure?! We all know that customisations shouldn't be made directly to a production server, but rather made in development and then promoted ... [More]

Dude, Where's my Site Map Editor?

Since the re-org of Pinpoint, my favourite site map editor (the one written in Silverlight by the Microsoft Dynamics Team) has dissapeared. It used to be here: http://dynamics.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-us/applications/microsoft-dynamics-crm-sitemap-editor-12884928049 In case you are also looking f... [More]