“Downward Spiral into Madness” Issues | Oracle Series
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...
Category: CRM Development
Dynamics 365 Dynamic Text Parser – Supercharged | Mage Series
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...
EnhancedOrgService – Enterprise-grade CrmServiceClient | Mage Series
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...
Dynamics Template-based Code Generator – Supercharged – Overview | Mage Series
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...
CRM Action ‘Object Null Reference’ Error | Oracle Series
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;...
Workflow ‘InvalidCastException’ or ‘Workflow contains an invalid custom activity’ Error | Oracle Series
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...
Ever So Mysterious, O Business Process Flow | Bitesize Series
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...
Office365 AuthType Deprecation – An Alternative | Bitesize Series
Microsoft recently announced the Office365 AuthType deprecation used in connection strings. This AuthType was the popular choice when connecting to Dynamics Online deployments through the SDK. It was indeed very convenient and saved some headache...
CRM Developer Guidelines
In most engineering disciplines, there exists a set of guidelines in every field that ensures a high-quality delivery and the highest resistance to unexpected failure after going live. This is evident in our attempt...
Testing Dynamics CRM – Plugins | Capsule Series
You are reading the third part of the main article: Testing Dynamics CRM. A plugin is custom code that runs within CRM’s process. However, when unit testing, we have to isolate the environment in...
