Monthly Archives: June 2012

Dynamics CRM: Country/Province (and other) dropdown lists

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Alex Shlega

Dynamics CRM does not support dropdowns for the lookup fields out of the box, but it is not unusual when we really need a dropdown rather than a lookup. The most obvious example is when we need to set country/state … Continue reading →

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Configuring Update Notifications for Dynamics CRM

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Alex Shlega

Download the solution Deploy the solution Note: This solution does not update any of the system entities.   Once the solution is deployed, publish all customizations In order to configure update notifications for a particular entity form, go to Settings->Customizations->”Customize … Continue reading →

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#Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Alex Shlega

Telerik seems to have a really nice set of jquery-based UI components: http://www.kendoui.com However, their “Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC” requires a bit of polishing in terms of installation instructions  since right now they are somewhat messy. Here is what … Continue reading →

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Dynamics CRM Portals: Editable grid

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Alex Shlega

Earlier today, I wanted to see if I could make an editable gridview using Dynamics CRM portal libraries. So, I pretty much followed portal walkthrough to create a project, and I ended up with the following aspx markup: <crm:CrmDataSource ID=”Contacts” … Continue reading →

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Dynamics CRM Portals: Could not load file or assembly AntiXssLibrary

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Alex Shlega

If you happen to try this walkthrough: Walkthrough: Build a Web Application That Connects to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Using Developer Extensions you might find yourself looking at the following error: Could not load file or assembly ‘AntiXssLibrary, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, … Continue reading →

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Dynamics CRM activity parties in c#

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Alex Shlega

Every once in a while I need to add an activity party to a Dynamics CRM entity from my c# code, and, every time, I have to lookup for the right code in an older project. Just so I don’t … Continue reading →

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