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The next release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM will bring many great new features for your organization—whether you use Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online or are running Microsoft Dynamics CRM on-premises. You can use the information in these two pages to help you plan for the next release. In the...

Have you built a new Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8 computer or virtual machine only to find out that the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK managed code samples no longer compile? You may get build errors similar to the following: 'Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.RequestSecurityTokenResponse...

The latest release of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK (v5.0.14) includes an update to the Xrm.Page Script Library Template. The Xrm.Page Script Library Template is a solution that helps you write and test form scripts using Visual Studio. The main improvements are: New Visual Studio Project Template...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK Version 5.0.14 is now live on MSDN downloads and in the MSDN library . Here’s some of the additions and updates you’ll find in this release: New assemblies consistent with the latest release of CRM Online. These assemblies are also compatible for CRM 2011...

One of the main goals for the December 2012 Service Update release is to have a clean and modern user experience. Modern applications are moving to an implicit save model and we need to adapt to that model. With the new updated forms, we have introduced the capability of auto save and that is what I...

If you work with JavaScript in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and need to query the metadata, please take a few minutes to look at the new technical article I just published: Query Metadata Using JavaScript . For a while now, the SDK has had sample libraries for retrieving metadata. The SDK.Metadata.js library...

2/4/2013 - Note that the version numbers for the binaries found in the Bin folder of the SDK are slightly different from those installed with UR12. However, they are compatible and can be used for all development projects for either CRM 2011 on-premises or CRM Online. Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK Version...

Before your Microsoft CRM Online organization is updated to the December 2012 Service release we hope you have taken steps to address potential issues which could cause form scripts to break. Information about how to prepare was published last summer in the following blog posts: Resolve Breaking...

Many people are excited about being able to use browsers other than Internet Explorer with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This is now possible with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Update Rollup 12 or the Microsoft Dynamics CRM December 2012 Service Update. One thing to note though, with this change, your form...

Almost 2 years ago I announced the Metadata Browser for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 . I created this managed solution HTML web resource metadata browser and included it in the tools folder of the downloadable Microsoft Dynamics 2011 Software Development Kit (SDK) . The metadata browser is a valuable...

Show it, don’t tell it. That’s why I created the Form Query String Parameter Tool. This week I published a technical article that introduces this tool: Use the Form Query String Parameter Tool to Demonstrate Setting Default Field Values in New Record Forms . We have documentation in the SDK...

The Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.dll library provided as part of the Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK makes it easy to write .NET applications that target the desktop. This library has dependencies on .NET 4.0 and Windows Identity Foundation (WIF), neither of which are available for Windows Phone and Windows 8 RT platforms...

I just published a new technical article for developers titled Asynchronous Ribbon Enable Rules and Executing Workflows from the Ribbon with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online . This article describes the scenario where a ribbon control, in this case a button, can be used...

The latest version of the Software Development Kit for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online (5.0.12) includes a new From Scripting Quick Reference topic. I added this in response to feedback that it is hard to find how to perform specific tasks using the Xrm.Page Reference ....

Update Rollup 8 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 was released in May but we didn’t provide an SDK update for it. As a result you probably haven’t seen a couple new client-side JavaScript functions that were added to open entity forms and web resources. These functions were added because with...

Download: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Custom Code Validation Tool The purpose of this tool is to assist customers and partners of Microsoft Dynamics CRM identify potential issues with their custom JavaScript in JavaScript libraries and HTML web resources. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Q4 2012 Service...

Activity Feeds solution has been on the marketplace since late last year. With an upcoming UR, we are adding new cool features including filters, ability to set a default view and of course like-unlike. In this post we’ll walk through the like-unlike feature and SDK how-to. If you’d like...

In concert with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Launch last week, we released a whitepaper titled “Comparing xRM Application Framework and Force.com” targeted at developers & ISVs. While the two technologies have many technical similarities, they also have important differences. This paper illustrates...

Last week at Convergence I lead a session on reporting for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. At that session I’d promised to provide some more details on how you can embed SQL Server Reporting Services reports into your CRM forms. This technique improves adoption of CRM by adding context to forms and by providing...

Today’s guest blogger is the technical director of AlexaCRM™ and CRM MVP George Doubinski . Follow him at his blog, Georged CRM Blog . Microsoft Dynamics CRM has a number of entities that, in addition to the record id (represented by GUID data type in the system), also contain unique text identifiers...

My colleague Tony Clayton the other day mentioned that he'd loved to have a tool that allowed him to enter fetch xml queries to rip data out of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. Fetch XML is a part of the CRM technology platform that allows you to create queries using an xml language. The queries can be...

In this post, I will try to give you some insights on how CRM authentication works. Modification or updates to CRM authentication pipeline is not supported. This article should be for your reference purpose only. CRM authentication framework has a pluggable modular structure. Where each supported authentication...

Don’t miss the new information that we just published in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update ! In addition to new Visual Studio projects and new samples, you can get information about attributes that are specific to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.  Here’s a sample, which covers the states of the...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM User Experience team is always looking to improve our customers’ experience when using the SDK. Past examples of our work in this area include publishing the Plug-in Developer tool and the Plug-in Registration tool for registering plug-ins and custom workflow activities...

Announcing the sixth update to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK. You can download it here or read it online at the CRM Developer Center . What’s New in this Release? Updates include: E-mail Provider documentation – Have you wanted to know about creating a custom e-mail provider? This all...