Microsoft Dynamics CRM UK Blog : Visual Basic .NET

Closing An Incident (Case) That Has Open Activities

Simon Hutson — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:47:00 GMT

In The Lap Of The Gods… Every so often I come across a feature in CRM that makes me wonder “why was it designed like that?”. The one that catches me out almost every time I demo is the inability to close or cancel a incident when there are associated...(read more)

Converting HTML E-mail To Plain Text

Simon Hutson — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:34:00 GMT

OK, I admit it. I've caught the CRM development bug. What started as a harmless bit of fun working on document library integration between CRM & SharePoint has now developed into an obsession. In this post I will describe how to build a plug-in that...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 Hangs After Adding A Web Reference

Simon Hutson — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:47:00 GMT

Sign Of The Times... A few weeks ago I came across a problem in Visual Studio 2008, whereby it seemed to hang every time I added a web reference to the CRM web service , and then tried using IntelliSense to discover the attributes of an entity . Looking...(read more)

Creating A Debugger Visualizer For Dynamic Entities

Simon Hutson — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:12:00 GMT

Are You Gonna Be My Girl.... Over the last couple of months I've been spending quite a bit of time with the SDK, building custom workflow activities and plug-ins for CRM 4.0. One of the problems working with the IPlugin interface is that you are forced...(read more)

E-mail To Case Using Workflow - Update

Simon Hutson — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:05:00 GMT

Voodoo Chile... Having implemented the workflow described by Jagan here to take an incoming e-mail and convert it automatically to a case, it became clear that some custom code would be need to solve the following problems: Using the workflow designer...(read more)

Creating SharePoint Sites With CRM Workflow

Simon Hutson — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:18:00 GMT

Can I Play With Madness... Now that I have a custom site definition that incorporates a minimal master page my next task was to automate the site creation process. I decided to build a custom workflow activity rather than a plug-in as this give me a high...(read more)

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Tidbits - Advanced Events

Simon Hutson — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:02:00 GMT

I Walk The Line... With CRM 3.0 we had a pretty robust model for building custom business logic extensions, known as callouts, which allowed developers to write C# or VB.NET code to handle pre-stage and post-stage events for platform operations such as:...(read more)