Check out this video for Q2 2011 Service Update : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HVqc5MthbI&feature=uploademail

If you want to send mail through sdk using late bound you can use below function  private void CreateMail(IOrganizationService service,Guid _ contactid,Guid _From) { //create activityparty Entity Fromparty = new Entity(“activityparty”); Entity Toparty = new Entity(“activityparty”);  //set partyid //You can refer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg328549.aspx to get acitivity party entity attribute Toparty[“partyid”]= new EntityReference(“contact”, _ contactid));  Fromparty[“partyid”]= new EntityReference(“systemuser”, _From)); //create email  and set… Read more »

Some days back I got one email from Packt Publishing to review their new book Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 New Features which is written by my fellow MVP Jim Wang and Darren Liu. I would like to congratulate both Jim and Darren for their wonderful book, they have done very good job.  Book chapter’s review Chapter 1: Setting Up The… Read more »

If you are working in a project where you need to open CRM entity record , you can use below function. first you need to get correct entity form URL to open it, you can refer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg328483.aspx once you have entity form URL, you need record GUID to open it, let’s say we want to open a account record from silverlight… Read more »

I have seen this question in CRM development forum, where user asked how to set ‘Default Unit’ using javascript, so I wrote below function to do the same function SetDefaultUnit() { if(Xrm.Page.ui.getFormType() == 1) //Check form type { var number = 1; var filter = “/UoMScheduleSet?$select=Name,UoMScheduleId&$filter=Name eq ‘Default Unit’”;   //Make sure you have created ‘Default Unit’ record RetrieveUnit(filter); } }… Read more »

In My silverlight webresourc I was consuming WCF component to fetch data from external database. when I deployed this webresource to CRM 2011, I got below error In order to solved this issue I placed crossdomain.xml and clientaccesspolicy.xml in root folder of my WCF component  “C:inetpubwwwroot” you can refer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197955%28v=vs.95%29.aspx for more details on crossdomain and clientaccesspolicy xml. Hope it will help… Read more »