This is not a title I just came up with. This is directly from Technet: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn646905.aspx Ok, I’m starting to wonder what am I up against this time around..
Yesterday, my fellow Dynamics CRM consultant Natalia Shlega who I talk a lot to (the main reason being not so much the fact that she’s a CRM consultant, though that does contribute.. but, rather, the fact that we happened to be married) pointed me to an article describing status reason transitions in Dynamics CRM. What… Read More »
There was a controversial article by Alex St. John last week where he went on saying that game developers should be prepared to work 80 hours per week, presumably not compensated for those extra 40 hours. This article was mentioned in my CodeProject subscription – that`s how I happened to find it. But here is… Read More »
While reading BABOK, I came across the following requirements classification – what’s interesting, I worked with quite a few business analysts, however, many of them would not be able to clearly explain the difference between business requirements and functional requirements. The information below is for my reference, then. Not that it becomes absolutely clear what… Read More »
There are people who inspire, who seem to know what they are doing, and in whose presence you start seeing the picture. We call them visionaries. Somehow, I was wondering what differentiates visionary people from others. And, then, I realized that, while talking about this quality of the human beings, we often use it in an… Read More »
Here is a short code sample on how to add a pre-search filter to the lookup function onLoad() { Xrm.Page.getControl(…).addPreSearch(function () { addPreSearchFilter(); }); } function addPreSearchFilter() { var filter = “<filter type=’and’>” + “<condition attribute=’…’ operator=’not-null’/>” + “</filter>”; Xrm.Page.getControl(…).addCustomFilter(filter); }
There are two design patterns which are called “factory” patterns: factory method and abstract factory. They are called factories because they produce something. The interesting thing is that there are other creational design patters which are called differenctly, but they still produce something, so, just following this logic, all those patterns could be called factories.… Read More »
Here is a quick and dirty example of how a plugin could be created to handle N:N associations. A plugin like this would need to be registered for the “Associate” message of “any” entity: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Client; using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk; public void Execute(IServiceProvider serviceProvider) { IPluginExecutionContext context… Read More »
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to say that XRM is flawless and/or that it fits anything and anyone. Not at all actually. If you gave me 15 minutes, I could keep complaining about missing XRM features for all that time. However, what I’m going to say is that, with the proper application of… Read More »
Every now and then, when our constantly-getting-older (but still not obsolete.. not even quite old yet) car needs some extra attention because of her age, we start looking around to see what could possibly replace her. This time around, there seem to be a few electric cars on the horizon which, I thought, would be… Read More »