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CRM 2013 – What is the WRPC Token and resolving INVALID_WRPC_TOKEN errors
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!Edsger Dijkstra I was tasked with load testing Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 and I quickly ran into some problems...
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How to create realistic Test Data for your CRM Project and why you should
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.Antoine de Saint-Exupery Poor quality and inconsistent data in your CRM database = bugs and odd behaviour out of...
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CRM 2013 – Why wasn’t an updated Custom workflow used by CRM?
You mustbethe change you wish toseeintheworld.Mahatma GandhiA custom workflow was published, but CRM continued to use the old custom workflow. This error frustrated the developer for a while before...
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Hosk’s Top CRM Articles of the week – 13th October
I have been writing performance test scripts for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 over the last week. I now realise the reason for the lack of blogs posts and information on performance testing with...
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Visual Studio 2013 Intellisense stopped working
I just installed Visual Studio 2013 and annoying the IntelliSense wasn’t working.Initially I found this slightly annoying, after 5 minutes of not having IntelliSense this became a big issue.I knew an...
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The pain of setting up CRM Dev environments
“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”George OrwellWhilst creating a console app to create email records in CRM I find my CRM dev environment working against me rather than...
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Oi Hosk, Why the lack of blog posts
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.Zig Ziglar Some blog readers have complained (in a nice way) about the...
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Hosk’s Top CRM Articles of the week – 26th October
One day you go into work, the work is difficult and boring.The next day you can go into work and continue working on the same piece of work and it’s interesting, exciting and enjoyable.The work stayed...
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CRM 2015/2013 – All you need to know about Database Encryption
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.Bruce Schneier Encryption problems don’t occur because Microsoft...
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CRM 2015 – The benefits of Access Teams
Access teams are an underused feature in Microsoft Dynamics CRM because the benefits of access teams are not clearly understood by many CRM professionals. When I have asked fellow CRM professionals...
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CRM 2015 – Tips on passing MB2-707 customization and config exam
This blog post gives tips on passing the MB2-707 certification, the real value of the certification isn’t the certification itself but what you learn to get it.I created this blog post for the CRM 2013...
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Hosk’s Top CRM Articles of the week – 2nd November
A great list of articles and blog posts this week, enjoy.QuotesSome men learn all they know from books; others from life. both kinds are narrow. The first are all theory; the second are all...
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CRM 2015 – Quick way to navigate to your User record
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.Ernest DimnetI often need to navigate to my user record,...
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CRM 2013 – When using FetchXML is better than OData
“Ordinary people think merely how they will spend their time, a man of intellect tries to use it.” – SchopenhauerI had a tricky problem where I need to select a lot of fields from an entity which was...
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer Interview Questions
I found questions I used interviewing a CRM developer, The questions will give CRM developers an idea of the questions you might get asked in a CRM developer interview.This article will help you...
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Hosk’s Top CRM Articles of the week – 10th November
quotesYou can’t avoid the forces of change on your code, you can prepare for it by decoupling and reducing dependancies – Hosk”Dirty code slows you down as well. If the code is clean, the next...
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CRM 2015 – What developers need to know about the activity entity
Microsoft Dynamics CRM has different Activity entities, showing actions from the CRM users. ActivityPointer records are automatically created when an Activity record is created, enabling developer to...
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CRM 2013 – Step by step guide to Remote Debugging
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”― Robert F. KennedyDeveloper fearWhen I was a junior CRM Developer I couldn’t get remote debugging working, Visual studio wouldn’t attach,...
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Hosk’s Top CRM Articles of the week – 20th November
I moved job this week and start my new role at KPMG Crimsonwing. I noticed they are presenting at Convergence 2015, awesome.KPMG sessions at Microsoft Convergence 2015 EMEAMicrosoft Convergence EMEA:...
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CRM 2015 – How to set focus in Javascript
I wanted to set focus in Javascript after a user had changed a field to yes, this triggered an onchange event. The onChange event set a new tab to be visible.The new tab was below and the users didn’t...
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