The Windows Phone Marketplace has a big update yesterday. I tried submitting an update for one of my applications today and after selecting and uploading the assembly, I got a messaging saying that static validation completed with errors: The [NeutralResourceLanguage...

I received the below error from a CRM WCF service that I created. After some investigating, I found out that I received this error because I don't have Windows Identify Foundation Pack installed on my developer PC. After installing Windows Identity Foundation...

Retrieving QueryString parameters inside of a CRM plug-in was easier than I thought, but with just one caveat. After you register your parameter with your entity's form view, you can then retrieve those parameters using the HttpContext class. Just a reference...

If you're looking for your MAC address for your Windows Phone 7, you'll need the March 2011 (NoDo) update. That update displays your phone's MAC address under SETTINGS > ABOUT . If you're not on the March 2011 (NoDo) update, then follow the instructions...

I had some trouble disabling the TiltEffect on items inside a particular WP7 ListBox in my application. I tried setting the SuppressTilt and the IsTiltEnabled properties on the ListBox as well as the StackPanel inside my DataTemplate and the ItemsPanelTemplate...

This is the same issue as the one mentioned in my blog from a few days ago ( Error while using the Create Method - System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null )...but this time I got an InvalidCastException while trying to cast an entity instance...

I had a lot of trouble getting configuring a .NET 4.0 WCF service which could be called from an HTML page using JQUERY. The issue was pretty much all with configuring the service and so I thought I would share the web.config that I finally got that allowed...

If you're using the CRM 2011 SDK with a generated proxy, you may encounter an ArgumentNullException when trying to use the Create method on your service instance. To get around this issue, you must enable proxy types on the service proxy instance as follows...

I've noticed that all my Microsoft Lync (previously OCS) contacts show up in my Windows Phone People Hub (contacts/address book). This is because Lync by default syncs all your contacts to your Outlook personal contacts. And if you tried to delete those...

If you want to actually browse DLLs in your GAC at C:\Windows\assembly\ follow the instructions below. This register edit will disable the assembly viewer and instead let you browse files like you would any other folder and allow you to grab or copy files...

I just got my Windows Phone 7 and added my Outlook, Windows Live, and Facebook accounts to the phone. The phone automatically downloading and merging all my contacts from each source is GREAT! However, I quickly realized that I ended up with 800+ contacts...

Annoyed with always getting that message? I was. If you want to get rid of that prompt, click on START , then RUN , and type in GPEDIT.MSC . In the Group Policy Object Editor window, under Computer Configuration , expand Windows Settings , then Security...

If you try to remove a virtual machine from your master list and then attempt to re-add it, you will probably get this error: "The virtual machine could not be added. The virtual machine configuration could not be added. A configuration with this name...

I wanted to share a GREAT tip that I got from someone when I first started here at Microsoft two months ago. Ok, it probably isn't that GREAT of a tip but it is very helpful to someone like me who is always short on time and has a plethora of web casts...

I was having trouble opening a web services solution. I kept getting the following error: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- The application for project 'http://localhost/MyVirtualWebApp' is not installed...