Recently our second book on Dynamics CRM 2015 got released. This is a practical guide to learn CRM 2015, If you are new to Microsoft CRM Development or want to explore CRM 2015 new features, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Application Design will help you in that. This book have below 8 Chapters, which starts from basic topics and moves to advance topics… Read more »
Very common question that we face in Microsoft Dynamics CRM community forums, “How to get started with Dynamics CRM?” Personally I feel that Microsoft Dynamics CRM is always a very hot topics in .Net developers and it totally make sense because after putting little more efforts you can add a new skill to your resume and can increase your career… Read more »
In our earlier article we have demonstrated how we can fetch images attached to notes, working on the same requirement we have enhanced our examples to develop an image gallery utility to see all the images attached to notes. Here is the complete code for this utility: You can download complete utility from GitHub Following are the steps to use… Read more »
We were installing CRM 2015 in one of the virtual machine and got CRM setup failed error dialog with Retry and Cancel button. The first thing came in our mind to check setup log files, so when we checked crmserversetup.log file under C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\MSCRM\Logs , we found below error details: Error| System.Exception: Action Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Server.RegisterVssWriterServiceAction failed. —> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Unable to change the Service description. at Microsoft.Crm.ServiceControlManager.InstallNativeService(String… Read more »
Sometime you may require to retrieve duplicate detection rules using CRM SDK, this post will help you to write code to get duplicate detection rule. Let’s take an example we want to retrieve all the duplicate detection rules based on the entity name, if you will navigate to Settings-> Data Management -> Duplicate Detection Rules, you will see duplicate detection… Read more »
Do you feel it annoying to enter First Name and Last Name in lead even Existing Contact is selected already??, if yes then this post will help you to auto populate these fields as soon as Existing Contact is selected. Lead entity contains fullname which is primary field (key attribute). It is combination for First and Last name. These fields is used… Read more »
“Can we do changes on Phone Call form under Social Pane??” I have seen this question many times on Microsoft Dynamics Forum. But social pane does not allow any customization at present, so there is no way to add custom fields over phone call form in social pane. But we can always customize phone entity form, so as a workaround, we can… Read more »
If we want to access specific activity, first we need to navigate to specific module and then need to select activities sub area, for example Sales->Activities and then we can select activity view. But let’s say if your customer wants to hide all activity option and just wants to add a direct link to the activity that they are using mostly. If you… Read more »
I found one question in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Forum today, which seems like a bug in CRM 2015, because I am not able to replicate this issue in CRM 2013. This issue comes when opportunity is created as system calculated without using price list. So when we will create opportunity record and fill revenue option as ‘System Calculated’ and won’t select any price list,… Read more »
Long time back we wrote a post to get history notes using custom workflow, in this post we are providing updated version of the code supported for CRM 2011/2013/2015. Requirement: If you have requirement to send notification when new note is added to any entity record where you have notes relationship enabled, for example let’s say when any notes entered to any critical… Read more »
