One of my colleagues, Richard McCormick, has written a blog post for the Avanade internal employees. He has asked me to make this post publically available since it might be interesting for more people. Read on and get great code samples on how to hide attributes, elements and sections.Hiding Links & Controls in CRM 4 Before I go on, I should point out that this solution is technically
Thursday, 16 April 2009
CRMAsyncService using 100% CPU
Posted on 13:41 by Unknown
With one of my projects I've experienced a situation in which the CRMAsyncService is requiring 99% CPU power. Since this doesn't leave much left for CRM, we needed to get this fixed. One of my colleagues, Maarten Smid, came up with the solution of installing the Service Pack 1 for .NET 3.0. But before this can be installed, some prerequisites needed to be installed.The first step is to install
Plugin registration tools for Visual Studio 2005
Posted on 13:34 by Unknown
The newest update of the SDK, version 4.0.8, includes updated projects for the plugin registration tool as well as the plugin developer tool. While I usually am pleased with updates, this update could cause some issues for some people. The updated projects are build in Visual Studio 2008 whereas they used to be build in Visual Studio 2005. This means that you will not be able anymore to run the
Friday, 10 April 2009
Displaying inactive records in associated view
Posted on 05:46 by Unknown
In some situations you do want to show the inactive records in an associated view as well. My fellow MVP George Doubinski wrote an article about how to solve this by using a plugin:http://crm.georged.id.au/post/2008/03/07/Displaying-inactive-records-in-associated-view.aspx.In this post I will show that there are more routes to Rome. I've looked into the option of editing the query which is being
Friday, 20 March 2009
Read-only URL Addressable Form
Posted on 06:10 by Unknown
The SDK does describe URL Addressable Forms, but one thing which I do miss on this page, is details around how to link to a form in readonly format. This is done by using the following URL:http://server/orgname/_forms/readonly/readonly.aspx?objTypeCode=objectTypeCode.Of course you need to change the server to servername, orgname to organization name and the objectTypeCode to the entity object
Thursday, 12 March 2009
New Statement of Direction paper
Posted on 15:26 by Unknown
Microsoft has just release a new Statement of Direction document. Due to NDA restrictions I cannot share contents of this document (yet), but assuming that you are a partner or a customer, you can download this paper yourself from either of the following locations.Partnersource: https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/marketing/statementofdirection/MD_CRM_SOD.htmCustomersource: https://
Monday, 16 February 2009
Using Advanced Find for FetchXML builder v4.0
Posted on 07:50 by Unknown
Some time ago I have written an article about how to use the Advanced Find as FetchXML builder. Today I tried using the javascript:prompt() method on a CRM 4.0 deployment and found out that the code doesn't work anymore. This alert script does still work though.javascript:alert(resultRender.FetchXml.value);A slightly different code which might be easier to remember is:javascript:alert(
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