Migration to CRM 2011 - The custom activity does not contain a valid...
We've started our migration from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 to CRM 2011. We've developed the full suite of customizations, Custom Workflow Activities, Plugins, ISV folder code, lots and lots of...
View ArticleSquare Foot Garden - Year 1, Month 1 - Mel Bartholomew
A couple of years ago I enjoyed a blog post by Scott Hanselman on starting a garden. I haven't really utilized my yard since moving into my house. In fact, its been a nuisance (to my neighbors too,...
View ArticleCRM 2011 RetrieveMultiple (QueryExpression) no longer returning the primary key
As we migrate our project from CRM 4 to CRM 2011 it was apparent that some of our "supported" code wasn't even working. One such case was using the QueryExpression/RetrieveMultiple, (we're still using...
View ArticleYUI Compessor .Net - My MSBuild
For integrating JavaScript or CSS compression in to your .net projects YUI Compressor for .Net is a great find. It is both easy to integrate and simple to start the build process.To integrate I simply...
View ArticleCRM 2011 Bulk Edit - Scripts Not Running? Fields disabled?
Similar to MSCRM 4, events won't fire by default in CRM 2011. Also, any field with an onchange event will be rendered disabled! There is a nasty way to go about it enabling these fields or allowing...
View ArticleLOST: It only ends once... each time you play the series
About 14 months after the conclusion to LOST, I've finally finished my re-watch from Season 1 to Season 6, averaging 2 episodes per week since last summer. Since this is my first LOST post, I should...
View ArticleMicrosoft CRM 4 Plug-in Serialization exception in CRM 2011
This is how one blogger solved a program plug-in after converting from CRM 4 to CRM 2011. The message was below (which you're probably getting if you're landing here). In my case I was using the...
View ArticleCRM 2011 - Remove Pending E-mail Warning on Login
Want to get rid of that annoying Pending e-mail warming you see every time you log in to your Microsoft CRM 2011 system? Modify your url to open directly to page main.aspx with the skipNotification...
View ArticleLOST: Comic Con 2011 The Marbled Rye
Great tongue in cheek video from Comic Con.Warning: If you don't want to know the Man in Black's name, do NOT watch this video!Coverage can be seen in the blog at HitFix.One of the interesting comments...
View ArticleCRM 2011 Diagnosing "Your Changes have not been saved" warning
Every one in a while, I will encounter a form where I open the form but don't change anything. When I close the form, I get a pop-up that "Your changes have not been saved. To stay on the page so...
View ArticleDeletion State Code Attribute Leftovers in 2011 from Dynamics CRM 4
Once of the things I had not noticed thus far in CRM 2011 was that Microsoft had gotten rid of the deletion state code column. If you're not familiar, it was a column CRM used to mark items as deleted...
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