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Developer 101: Beware of optional parameters in Custom Actions
Today I was testing a custom action that I developed for a project I’m working on. The plugin registered on the action was not behaving as expected. It was time for some thorough investigation. The...
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Product development – A Closer look into the kitchen
Over the last year, I’ve been working on a large CRM solution at CRM Partners. A solution meant to be sold as a product. At this moment we are working through the last bugs and requests before we can...
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Inspired by Course 80547AE – Extending Dynamics CRM 2015
Today I was training customers in extending CRM on CRM 2015 update 1. Using the brand new training materials from course 80547AE – Extending Dynamics CRM 2015. One of the topics I discussed in the...
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Developer 101: Walkthrough – 2 independent solutions, dependent on same...
Spoiler alert: Seasoned CRM developers can skip this article! This article is intended for beginning CRM developers facing the situation, in which I ran today: dealing with two independent solutions...
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Document integration – part 4: The ribbon has been tamed
A short update, the development of the Document Integration solution is alive and kicking. Tonight has been a really productive evening. I established a break through in the dynamic ribbon provisioning...
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A case of inspiration: dealing with settings in an outsourced environment
Today I got inspired by a presentation given at our monthly developer meeting. Two of my colleagues were demonstrating a solution they designed for one of our customers. This customer outsourced a...
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Hardcore CRM: Playing with meta data
One of the advantages of being a software engineer is that you can automate your job. Let some handy tooling do a lot of the dirty work, allowing you to focus on stuff that matters. Back in the days I...
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Hardcore CRM: Birth of a C# CRM code generator
Almost year ago I started this blog. Today I’m writing the 100th article on this blog. For me this is a moment worth celebrating. Looking back at last year, I dug up some statistics on...
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Hardcore CRM: Using C# to modify an entity forms
I thought this year would start at a normal pace. Unfortunately that was wishful thinking. Right now we are in the middle of finishing up a large project. In this phase of the project the two products...
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A case of inspiration: Locking down CRM for maintenance
Today we had a discussion at the office on an upcoming migration at a customer. Their Dynamics CRM environment is getting a complete overhaul and a large number of external systems need to be hooked...
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Food for thought: A scenario for handling massive amounts of data
Today I overheard a very interesting discussion at the office. For one of our customers we’ve built a massive CRM implementation based on CRM 2015 online. An implementation in which a large number of...
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Food for thought: A scenario for handling massive amounts of data – part 2
In my last article I described a scenario for handling massive amounts of data. The scenario intrigued me. How could I implement a scenario like this? On one side you find Dynamics CRM – a massive...
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Using Azure Table Storage from within CRM
In my last article I described a scenario in which large amounts of data were moved from CRM to Azure Table Storage. The idea behind this operation is to offload inactive data to an alternate storage,...
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Debugging 101: The Pitfall of the plugin profiler
When developing for CRM, you sometimes have to debug your code. With the CRM on-premise versions, one could simply attach the Visual Studio debugger to your CRM Server. You only had to install the...
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Stuck – corrupted index in a managed solution
Sometimes you have these big walls you run into. Today, it was my turn. In the project I’m working on I finished an user story in which I had to add a new action to one of the products we are building....
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Solved – corrupted index in a managed solution
In my last article, I mentioned that we got stuck with a corrupted index in a managed solution. The reason the index became corrupted was that the width of the index we defined was exceeding the...
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Dynamics CRM and Azure Scheduler – intro
This week I have a meeting with my manager to discuss the personal goals I want to achieve this year. Goals that will benefit the company, and goals that will benefit me. Among these goals I have to...
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Dynamics CRM and Azure Scheduler – let the games begin
Last week I started this series of articles on using the Azure Scheduler with Dynamics CRM. I expected a pretty smooth ride, however it turns out to be an infuriated dragon that needs to be tamed. In...
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Dynamics CRM and Azure Scheduler – Breakthrough!
In this series of articles I’m setting up a scenario in which I hook up Dynamics CRM to the Azure Scheduler. My goal is to use the Azure Scheduler to start an Azure web job that will interact with...
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Dynamics CRM and Azure Scheduler – a closer look at Azure Web Jobs
In this series of articles I’m working on a scenario in which I want to hookup the Azure Scheduler to Dynamics CRM. In the previous article I established a breakthrough. Using REST calls and Json, I’m...
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