Get rid of "Do you want to close this window?"

You might get a question when opening CRM in Internet Explorer. The question is:The webpage you are viewing is trying to close the window.Do you want to close this window?yes noThis message does appear in CRM 4.0 only when you are using Internet Explorer 7.0 and you have enabled the application mode setting. Nevertheless, it is an anoying message which you can get away!To get rid of this message

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Overview of CRM 4.0 Training & development collateral

Microsoft employee Jon Butler is sending me updates on CRM regularly. This time he has sent an overview of the available training material. Since this is such a usefull list, I thought it would be worth sharing this with you guys!Official Courseware available now These training courses are the Microsoft Dynamics Official Curriculum currently available for CRM 4.0 now, either as soft-copy

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Get the latest hotfixes for the CRM 4.0 outlook client

The product team has posted a blog article about the known issues with their hotfixes on the team blog. I'd strongly recommend everybody to look at this list and to install all applicable hotfixes for your system.The following issues are discussed:1. Outlook hangs during initialization (progress toolbar displays “Loading…” and never finishes)2. With E-mail Auto Promotion Enabled, Outlook may not

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Custom entities and attributes in a plug-in

You cannot create a webservice in Visual Studio when you're writing a plugin. Instead you need to use the method context.CreateCrmService(true);. There is only one single issue when using this approach. You cannot leverage the power of IntelliSense in Visual Studio. Visual Studio will not recognize your custom entities and attributes. How to work with this? The only correct answer is "Dynamic

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Unauthorized error after deploying your custom application

I've been working on deploying an application today. I received the error "Unauthorized" all the time and did not know why. The website was deployed as a new virtual directory within the ISV folder, authentication was set to integrated windows authentication and the password which was supplied was correct. Still I was able to get this error message:Server Error in '/ISV/CustomApplication'

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Convert lead to contact, account and/or opportunity programmatically

Update: The codeproject missed a line of code. After you have executed the InitializeFromRequest, then you'll get a InitializeFromResponse. This response has got a entity in it. This entity you will need to create. The entity does not yet get created by executing the InitializeFromRequest! The line to add is:Guid entityId = service.Create(rps.Entity);Today I needed some code which does convert a

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Plug-in not working

One of the most read pages on my blog is the list of reasons why a callout won't work. Since the release of CRM 4.0 we do not have callouts anymore, but we're using plug-ins for extending CRM. This article will contain all the reasons that I find on why a plug-in is not working.Error:"Unable to load the plug-in assembly"There are multiple reasons why this error can occur. These reasons include:-

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