Paul Rausch

CRM QueryExpression Grouping Conditions

I had a scenario the other day where I need to use the CRM SDK to do a query simlar to this 'WHERE column1 = value AND (column2=value1 OR column2=value2)' , this was pretty easy to accomplish once I understood difference between Filters and Conditions...

Published Tue, May 05 2008 12:37 PM by prausch

Filed under: .Net Development, CRM, Web Services

Embedding a CRM view in a form using an IFrame

I recently created a custom child entity that I wanted to show both on the left side navigation and on the parent entity form itself in an Iframe. Here are the steps I took to accomplish that. This will also work for non-custom entity views that you would...

Published Thu, May 05 2008 10:32 AM by prausch

Filed under: CRM

Overriding the default generated WSDL on a service

I recently came across a scenario where I needed to use a flash component that consumed a web service on a project. I had no control over the flash as it was written by a 3rd party. Anyway the problem was the application was hosted on a load balanced...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 1:06 PM by prausch

Filed under: C#, vb.net, Web Services

Sorting Collections

With the new language features in the .Net framework this has become much simpler. I had to implement sorting on a custom collection in two projects last week, one being .net 1.1 and one being .net 3.5. Let me tell you it was much easier in 3.5 and much...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 10:17 AM by prausch

Filed under: .Net Development, C#

Disabling a CRM User service error

I recently had a problem where a user account on our test CRM installation was disabled without my knowledge. The problem is I started getting authentication errors updating any records through CRM web services that had that user as the owner. I could...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 10:11 AM by prausch

Filed under: CRM

Close an Opportunity in CRM 3.0 via web services

It took me a little time to figure out how set the state/status of a Opportunity to a win. Other times I've had to set states/status on a CRM object I've only had to use the corresponding SetStateRequest object which does exist for Opportunity...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 10:02 AM by prausch

Filed under: .Net Development, CRM

Rich Text Editing Made Easy

I came across a new rich text editor in a project recently where I just needed some simple lists/bolding/color capabilities. Its super easy to use, you just reference the .dll and add it like any other server control to your page. The nice part is everything...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 9:43 AM by prausch

Filed under: Tools, .Net Development

FetchXML Rocks!!

Just kidding. For anyone who had the pleasure of coding against the Microsoft CRM 1.0 web services you probably remember that cumbersome FetchXML you had to write to query against the CRM object model. Well with CRM 3.0 and the strongly typed object model...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2008 3:19 PM by prausch

Filed under: Tools, .Net Development

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