Category Archives: MS CRM 2011

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Cookbook Book Review

Mahender   August 3, 2013   1 Comment on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Cookbook Book Review

Recently PACKT publised Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Cookbook, a book written by Dipankar Bhattacharya. This book is equipped with good details about Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 from functional as well as technical aspect. Chapter 1: Installing Dynamics CRM 2011 Complete information about Installing Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and related components like outlook client, email router and reporting extensions. The good… Read more »

Close custom activity entity

Mahender   July 16, 2013   No Comments on Close custom activity entity

Are you looking to close your custom entity using SDK, then this post is for you. We can close ms crm custom activity type entity like other entities using SetStateRequest message.  You can use below code for the same   public void CompleteTextMessage() { IOrganizationService _CrmService = GetCRMService(); //a function to return ms crm service object SetStateRequest _SetStateReq = new… Read more »

Step by Step Using “DecrementBy” in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Workflow

Mahender   June 23, 2013   No Comments on Step by Step Using “DecrementBy” in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Workflow

Did you ever get a requirement to decrease your product’s quantity on hand value by 1 using OOB workflow ? We found one post in Microsoft Development Forum and thought of writing this blog post so that it can help other CRM folks. Let’s say we are using case entity and when a case is resolved we need to decrement… Read more »

Step By Step Hiding Ribbon Button in MS CRM 2011 Part2

Mahender   June 3, 2013   4 Comments on Step By Step Hiding Ribbon Button in MS CRM 2011 Part2

In our last post we explained how we can hide ribbon button on MS CRM 2011 entity form manually by modifying ribbon xml, in this post we are going to explain how this can be implemented using ribbon editors addon available in market. We are going to use Ribbon Workbench for CRM 2011 for this demo, so let’s start: Step1:… Read more »

Step By Step Hiding Ribbon Button in MS CRM 2011 Part1

Mahender   May 26, 2013   1 Comment on Step By Step Hiding Ribbon Button in MS CRM 2011 Part1

If you have a requirement to hide ribbon buttons in MS CRM 2011 then this post is will help you. Sometime there some system ribbon button which is not required by our client, so if we need to hide them we have two below options: Modify Ribbon XML file manually. User Ribbon Editors addon available. Let’s say we need to… Read more »

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

Mahender   April 30, 2013   11 Comments on 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 »