Coded Magic!
The official client-side API reference for Dynamics is targeted at JavaScript (JS). Taking a quick peek at client-side programming’s history, we’ll notice so many attempts at working around JS’ tiresome limitations. One such attempt...
Controls added to forms have a single instance to manage their related attributes. It can be done by calling <form-context>.getAttribute(‘<attribute-name>’). This is pretty straightforward for setting requirement levels or getting their value; however, extra...
Issue For as far as I can remember (6+ years), workflows have had an issue with the custom-step assembly update process. I will explain the issue in more detail below. Let’s assume you registered...
A few years back I faced a couple of elusive issues that caused me many a sleepless night. I called them the “downward spiral into madness” issues. They prompted me to write a guidelines...
Nearly all business solutions require sending a notification, one way or another. Dynamics easily provides this functionality for emails: ‘send email’ step or message in code. Going a step further, when the business requires...
At the core of Microsoft’s tooling library (Microsoft.CrmSdk.XrmTooling.CoreAssembly), there resides the out-of-the-box CrmServiceClient class. It provides developers with the means to connect to CRM easily and the convenience of some helpers methods. On its...
Microsoft provides a tool within the Dynamics SDK called CrmSvcUtil. It generates early-bound entity code, which includes classes for each entity in CRM with properties for each field and relation. Microsoft’s Dynamics early-bound entity...
Issue In CRM v8.x, calling an Action might fail with the error: ‘Object reference not set to an instance of an object’. The error provided no clues as to the source of the issue;...
Issue Sometimes on importing a solution in CRM v8.x, it might fail with the error: ‘Workflow contains an invalid custom activity’. In an effort to try to conquer the ambiguity, I tried to create...
Microsoft introduced Business Process Flows (BPF) back in version 2013. Developers haven’t really faced critical issues when controlling the BPF through the UI, except for the rare bug here and there. However, it has...
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