Both the MVP Summit as well as the Convergence are on exactly the same dates. Since I don't have a splitten personality, I'll go to just one of those events. This will be the Convergence! Feel free to contact me to make an appointment.See you in San Diego!
Thursday, 22 February 2007
Wednesday, 21 February 2007
Dutch champion Judo
Posted on 07:11 by Unknown
This is my first post not related to CRM, C# or myself. Instead, this post is about my little sister Iris. We do both practice Judo, there’s just this little difference in the level we do play this. I’m doing it just for recreational purposes and she’s putting all effort in being the best.And she does a great job! Last week she managed to beat all Dutch competition! Now she’s Dutch Champion for
Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Set a lookup to NULL
Posted on 13:30 by Unknown
Quite often I see this question in the newsgroup: How do I set a lookup to a NULL value?Here is the answer for when you're working in server side code:Entity.Lookup = new Lookup(); Entity.Lookup.IsNull = true; Entity.Lookup.IsNullSpecified = true; this also works for customers:contact.parentcustomerid = new Customer();contact.parentcustomerid.IsNull = true;contact.parentcustomerid.IsNullSpecified
Monday, 19 February 2007
A schema validation error has been detected
Posted on 05:08 by Unknown
More and more MS CRM developers are experiencing this error message:A schema validation error has been detected at line 21087, position 16.This error shows up if you want to import a customizations file which has been exported from a system which has the Update Rollup package 1 installed.There may be multiple reasons for this error to show up, but at least one of them is the existence of one of
Sunday, 18 February 2007
Callout design issue
Posted on 13:37 by Unknown
Last week I noticed some weird behaviour in MS CRM. For a business requirement I created a callout. The callout would perform some business logic as soon as an appointment gets created. The business logic should only run if the activty gets created by a quick campaign. Don't ask me for the reason, but that was requested.No problem, I created a pre callout which runs on the appointment's OnCreate
Friday, 16 February 2007
Error while importing via Tools -> Import
Posted on 07:44 by Unknown
Today I got a question regarding importing via the CRM Import tool (Menubar -> Tools -> Import). Only a small number of records would import, all the others would not. Even though the source seemed fine, they did throw this error:0x80040328: Number of columns does not match the header rowThis appears to be related to the source anyway. When you save an file in Excel 2003 as csv, it does the
Thursday, 15 February 2007
Multiple Avanade clients win Pinnacle award
Posted on 14:32 by Unknown
The Convergence 2007 Pinnacle Awards recognize, honor, and celebrate customers that have achieved outstanding success with their Microsoft solutions as well as Microsoft partners’ solutions. The three categories are Role Based Customer Awards, Excellence Customer Awards and Industry Leadership Awards.One of Avanade's clients, Wellmark, has won the Industry Leadership Award for Healthcare. Another
Guest star on mscrm team blog
Posted on 12:13 by Unknown
Jim Glass e-mailed me some time ago. This was the content:Ronald, would you like to be the CRM Team blog guest blogger for February? You can select any work day in February.Let me know what you think,JaAGObviously Jim is a man of less words, but with these words he did make me a very happy person. I was personally invited to write a blog post for the number 1 blog around MS CRM. And today is the
Thursday, 8 February 2007
CRM with a SQL Server Named Instance
Posted on 00:14 by Unknown
Today I ran into Kale David's blog. He posted a solution for running CRM on a SQL Server Named instance. The main point is adding a DWORD key to the registery.Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSCRM\IgnoreChecksValue: 1See his blog for the full article.Thanks Kale!
Tuesday, 6 February 2007
Territory manager cannot belong to other territory
Posted on 01:24 by Unknown
If you're working with territories by using the SDK, you might get this error message:0x80043805: Territory manager cannot belong to other territoryThis happens if you want to make a specific user manager of two territories. This is possible, but you will have to make sure that the field 'territory' is set to NULL of this user. When you change the manager field of a territory by using the SDK,
Thursday, 1 February 2007
How to set the parent account via SDK
Posted on 14:29 by Unknown
Last week I've been working on a migration application. One requirement in the application was to set the parent account of child accounts. It could be that a parent account has a parent account itself as well. So in my application I have followed this approach:- For each account in the source, create an account in CRM 3.0- For each account in the source, map the parent account to a crm accout
Uploading office 2007 (docx) files to CRM
Posted on 14:26 by Unknown
On the newsgroups I've been talking to some people about uploading Office 2007 files. This appears to be not working as expected. There is a hotfix available for this issue now. Note: this hotfix is not included the rollup 1 package. Look at this page for more information: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/929488
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