HIMBAP – A team of highly skilled Microsoft Dynamics CRM experts

Introducing HIMBAP, a team of highly skilled Microsoft Dynamics CRM experts, with extensive experience in developing solution for diverse domains, across verticals. We believe in having long-term firm relationships with our customers. We help our customers in improving their business efficiency and profitability with automation and innovation to their business process leveraging Microsoft Dynamics CRM along with our services. We… Read more »

Win A free copy of the ‘Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Applications (MB2-868) Certification Guide'

I have another option to win a free ebook for my readers, I am organizing a contest where I have three copies of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Applications (MB2-868) Certification Guide that I will give to our three lucky winners. How you can win: To win your copy of this book, all you need to do is tell us what… Read more »

Get Domain name for MS CRM 2011 User

Sometime we have requirement to get domain name for crm user, we can use SystemUser entity to get this information, you can use below rest code for the same: function GetServerURL() { var serverUrl = Xrm.Page.context.getServerUrl(); if (serverUrl.match(//$/)) { serverUrl = serverUrl.substring(0, serverUrl.length – 1); } return serverUrl; } function GetDomainName() { var UserID = Xrm.Page.context.getUserId(); var ODataPath = GetServerURL()… Read more »

Getting CRM User Date and Time Format Setting in Silverlight Microsoft CRM 2011

If you are working with Silverlight web resource and you need to get current crm user date time format then you can query usersettings entity and get datetime format setting for user. I have used Silvercrmsaop library in my project. You can use below code for the same: public void RetrieveUserSettingRecord(Guid _UserID) { try { this._d.BeginInvoke(delegate() { EntityReference EntityID =… Read more »

Update parent customerid in Contact using Soap Request

If you are looking to update parent customer id in contact record using soap request you can use below code. I have used Soaplogger application that comes with Microsoft CRM 2011 SDK to generate this soap request, you can simply write your server side code in soaploagger and run this application, it will generate client slide soap request for you…. Read more »

"Unhandled Exception: Microsoft.Crm.CrmException: Cannot create the given type without the required parameters" while sending email in MS CRM 2011

Yesterday we started getting a strange issue in one of our MS CRM online organization, where we have workflow to send notification in case of customer approval, but suddenly the workflow stopped working and we were getting below error “Unhandled Exception: Microsoft.Crm.CrmException: Cannot create the given type without the required parameters.  at Microsoft.Crm.Workflow.Services.ExpressionServiceBase.CreateCrmType(WorkflowPropertyType type, Object[] values)   at Microsoft.Crm.Workflow.Services.ExpressionServiceBase.EvaluateExpression(ExpressionOperator expressionOperator,… Read more »

Step By Step integrating Bing Maps in MS CRM 2011 Part 2

In my earlier post Step By Step integrating Bing Maps in MS CRM 2011, I have explained how we can simply use Bing maps to show address information in MS CRM entity form, I got many comments in that post where user were facing below issue                                                                             ‘Microsoft’ is undefined So I thought to try the same example again and when… Read more »