Dynamics CRM 2011 Organization Service Tracing
Monday, December 06 2010 - crm2011, wcf, organizationservice, tracing - 0 comments
In Dynamics CRM 4.0 you used to be able to run Filddler to look at the contents of the HTTP requests being made to the CRM Service. When playing with the Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK i was curious to have a look at the messages that are being send across the wire between my development PC and the Dynamics CRM Organization service. This can be useful to look sometimes at what is happening behind the scenes when you work with the early bound model/LINQ and also when debugging various scenarios. When trying to run Fiddler on an on-premise deployment i noticed that the messages were encrypted. So i figured...
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CRM WCF Integration
Wednesday, April 15 2009 - crm, wcf, ajax, javascript - 1 comments
In this post i will talk about integrating the Microsoft CRM UI with backend WCF services. In the CRM SDK there is a lot of examples about creating sample SOAP requests to access the CRM SDK web services. However this involves a lot of manual work which includes generating the SOAP request message and then parsing the SOAP response message. If you are trying to retrieve and manipulate a lot of data in many forms this can be quite time consuming and difficult to maintain. One alternative is write your own custom JavaScript helpers that can simplify the process for you. However this also requires...
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CRM Silverlight Integration
Friday, March 13 2009 - crm, silverlight, javascript - 2 comments
In this post I will talk about integrating the Microsoft Dynamics CRM UI with Silverlight and I will show how to inject a Silverlight control onto a CRM entity form. Normally one would extend CRM by using javascript or custom dialogs but Silverlight is a new technology that allows the building of a nice UI that can interagate well with the underlying html page and backend systems. The solution consists of a custom web application that hosts the silverlight required files and some customisations for the "OnLoad" event. On this occasion I will show you how to show a modal Silverlight popup...
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