Tag: Plugins

Development, Howto

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013: Actions: deployment of plugins through CRM Developer Toolkit

I played with the new version of the CRM Developer Toolkit and wasn’t able to find a way to register a plugin that handles the action using UI. The following post describes the workaround how to make it possible.

Development

MS CRM 2011: CallerOrigin in plugins

Yesterday well-known MVP Tanguy Touzard, author of amazing tools for Dynamics CRM 4.0/2011 asked about CallerOrigin property in plugins for Dynamics CRM 2011. This property worked for CRM 4.0 and returned the source of plugin invocation (Application, AsyncService or WebService). I and Gayan suggested to use HttpContext class from System.Web namespace to check source. Today …

CRM Extensions

MS CRM 2011: Import of marketing list members using standard import with small extensions

Unfortunately at the moment it is impossible to import Marketing Lists Members to CRM with out-of-box import. My friend, former MVP and employee of Microsoft Artem Grunin provided good approach how to eliminate this problem with small customizations and plugin.

Development

MS CRM 2011: Error during creation of Account record – System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Cannot insert duplicate key row in object ‘dbo.EmailSearchBase’ with unique index ‘ndx_for_forward_update’

Today I have got this issue during creation of account. I have googled and found the same issue at CRM Development forum.

CRM Extensions

Rollup activities for custom entities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Everybody who works with Microsoft Dynamics CRM knows that it is possible to see activities for special entities like contact, account or opportunity but not for custom entities. I had task to develop such kind of functionality. I proposed easier solution – report but customer wanted to have all activities in standard grid.

CRM Extensions

Plugin for copying notes and attachements from lead to contact whis is converted from lead for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

I’ve been asked to write plugin for following scenario: When user converts lead to contact – all attachements and notes must be copied to retrieved contact.