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CRM 2011 – Why error logs are great in Excel
I have been banging my head against my keyboard today.Having been tasked with updating the solutions and customizations on one of the servers which had beenn set to Production but was now 3 months out...
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Hosk’s Top CRM 2013 articles of the week 25th July 2014
Smile everyone it’s Friday and you still have time to read the best CRM articles of the week, wooohoooo Article of the weekA great article on Actions, something I have been trying to get my head round....
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CRM 2013 – What happens when you delete a status reason currently in use
I had a task recently to reduce down the number of statuses on an entity, basically taking it down from 20 to 10.As Adam pointed out in the comments, I am referring to Status Reason = statuscode. For...
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CRM MCC Question and Answer – Guido Preite
I knew it would happen but I have finally run out of CRM MVP’s willing to answer my questions. Luckily I have lined up a future CRM MVP (in my opinion) Guide Preite who has earned at least two MCC...
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Hosk’s Top CRM 2013 articles of the week 1st August 2014
Here are my choice of the top CRM articles this week. Keep Powering until the end of the week Articles of the WeekRollup 3 fixed a bunch of niggly bugs, find out whatRollup 3 Fixes Many Pain Points of...
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CRM 2011 – Plugin Deploy Error and CRM Developer toolkit frustrations
Sometimes when you are deploying plugins you can get into a frustrating error stopping you deploying a plugin/custom workflow. The errors you get don’t really give you can clue as to what the error...
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CRM 2011/2013 – Step by Step guide to installing the CRM Developer Toolkit
The CRM Developer Toolkit has become the standard way for developers to develop CRM Customizations.I personally like this because it means the codes is standardized. It’s not totally standardized...
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WCF with no service xml or endpoints? What is this magic?
I had to write a WCF service for a project and I hadn’t created a WCF service for a while.I was trying to write mine to fit in with the rest of the projects but I was totally confused because I was...
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Getting Started with Fiddler and CRM
I was having to look at performance issue of Javascript today, so I downloaded the trusty fielder2 to help me. If you are like me, you will have heard of fiddler but may not have had reason/time to...
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CRM 2011 – UnRecognized ‘Edm.Guid’ literal ‘guid’null’
A user had reported this error and the Hosk was tasked to investigate UnRecognized‘Edm.Guid’ literal ‘guid’null‘ What made investigating this error more tricky, was it occured only when a new record...
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CRM 2013 – Convert Email HTML to Plain Text
I have had this request from a few customers over the years and it’s converting and using the description of an email is trickier than you initially think it will be. This is a question which often...
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM not working? check these common causes
I started up the DEV server too start my CRM dev this morning only to be confronted with a big fat error The same error happened on every page, so it’s a fundamental error.Yesterday IT sent an email...
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CRM 2011/2013 – Ribbon problems
The investigation and problem I experienced where in CRM 2011 but I think it would be the same in CRM 2013, I had a problem with the ribbon javascript but I didn’t have a clue where it was because I...
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Hosk’s Top CRM articles of the week 3rd October 2014
Thumbs up for friday everyoneArticles of the WeekI will add this as one of my top articles, it’s not really an article but it’s very useful because the blogs on the list are excellentThe top 25 CRM...
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CRM 2011 – error using Xrm.Utility.OpenEntityForm
I was fixing some code where the code passes a field to a form and then opens it using the excellent Xrm.Utility.openEntityFormI added a new parameter, parameter_2. This was going to pass the name of...
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Should you keep up with Microsoft Dynamics CRM release cycle?
I read this articleMicrosoft Dynamics CRM Rapid Release Cycle and Why You Should Try To Keep Upwritten by CRM MVP Joel Lindstrom and he makes some excellent points. I would summarize as thiskeeping up...
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Hosk Dynamic CRM blog is featured in the top 25 Dynamic CRM sites
I saw this week the Hosk blog was featured on the top 25 Dynamic CRM Siteshttps://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/dynamics101trainingcentercrm/archive/2014/09/29/top-25-dynamics-crm-sites.aspxIt’s a great...
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CRM 2011/2013 – using ITracingServicing and Mocking it up
I was writing a plugin and I wanted to step through the code whilst writing it but we had a looming deadline and I didn’t have time to write some unit tests, so I decided just to access the plugin...
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CRM 2013 – using Entity.GetAttributeValue instead of Entity.Contains
I found myself writing this tried and tested code, which I have written many times before if (entity.Contains("salutation")) { title = ( string)entity.Attributes["salutation"]; }before you can get a...
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CRM 2013 – Understanding Business Rules
What are business rulesBusiness rules were added to CRM 2013 and a way to provide client side scripting/validating/field or section hiding without having to write any JavaScript. For context server...
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