David Jennaway - Microsoft Dynamics CRM

A relatively common error with plugins is "Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission, msco...

The CRM SDK describes the main differences in plug stages here . However, there are some additional differences between the pre-validation ...

The CRM SDK messages CreateRequest and UpdateRequest support a configuration parameter "SuppressDuplicateDetection" that provides ...

This should be a quick post about a subtlety with the plugin event pipeline. I recently wrote a plugin that could modify the data that's...

The CRM 4 SDK gives some information about the storage options when registering plugins but there are a few more considerations. I got prom...

This is the first of an intended two posts about registering custom workflow activities, and regards the initial deployment; a subsequent po...

In CRM 3.0 it was relatively easy to hide one of the built-in system views - all you had to do was share the view with an empty team, which ...

In a plug-in there are potentially several ways to access entity data relevant to the plug-in action. For example, on the create message you...

On a couple of occasions recently I've had an error "Invalid domain name. Domain name is either invalid or unreachable" when r...

Although the CRM 4.0 SDK is generally pretty comprehensive, I find it doesn't contain as much information as I'd like about the inf...

A common question I get is ‘what is the difference between workflow and plugins, and when should I use one or the other ?’. This article is ...

I've been invited to post again on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog . This time I've included information about plugin message...

I've posted 2 resources (.Net projects) to the MSDN Code Gallery to assist with writing and deploying plugins for CRM 4.0. One tool is ...