How to fix CRM2013 Application Bar hidden by Silverlight Web Resource

If you have any Silverlight Web Resources in your site map that are hosted by an HTML Web Resource, you may find that when you upgrade to CRM2013 and use the pull down Application Bar the Silverlight page is rendered on top of the navigation buttons so that they are obscured and hidden from the user... [More]

getServerUrl is Deprecated. Use getClientUrl instead.

Although at the time of writing UR12 is not yet released - I was checking though the changes in the latest SDK documentation. In addition to the Ribbon Workbench being listed (yay!) I noticed the following statement about the getServerUrl function "Deprecated. Use getClientUrl instead. This method... [More]

iPad killed the Silverlight star?

After the initial Statement of Direction in May and then the interview with Brad Wilson the then general manager of Dynamics CRM, there has been quite some excitement about cross-browser support for Dynamics CRM 2011. The timescale given was "the first half of 2012" being release with UR8. The thoug... [More]

The future of Silverlight for Dynamics CRM

Recently there has been much talk and rumours of Microsoft discontinuing Silverlight keeping in the tradition of speculating over the Flash vs. Silverlight vs. HTML 5 battle. The thing is; it is an imaginary struggle. It results from our deep seated need to keep things simple and 'black and white'. ... [More]

Early bound Entity Types in Silverlight

One of the drawbacks of using Silverlight clients for CRM2011, is that there is no built in support for early bound entity types since you cannot use the Microsoft SDK assemblies. Really, there isn't anything that special going on with early bound support in the SDK assemblies – a behaviour is added... [More]

Silverlight Theme for CRM2011

Develop1 have a Silverlight 4 CRM 2011 theme available for the following user interface components: Label Style Text Box Style Date Picker Style Radio Button Style Data Grid Style Lookup Style (Coming soon) Please contact us for more information.