David Jennaway - Microsoft Dynamics CRM

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

A lesser-known feature that CRM 2016 brought to us is support for optimistic concurrency in the web service API. This may not be as exciting...

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

A common error posted on the CRM Development forum is ‘the given key was not present in the dictionary’. This is a relatively easy error to ...

The CRM SDK has a little-known, but very useful set of projects called wsdlbasedproxies, which show how to connect to the CRM web services w...

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...

I just met a bizarre error when using the Crm xrm assembly when using the ConditionOperator.In in a query. In this case the query was to fin...

I like April. One reason is that it's the start of my MVP renewal cycle. After April 1st April I will either have been renewed, or not, ...

CRM 2011 Server includes a publisher policy that causes any assembly built against the CRM 4 sdk assemblies to load the CRM 5 sdk assemblie...

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 is common requirement, and I've never found what I consider to be a suitable explanation of what needs to be done. This post is ...

A common issue raised in the CRM Development forum is of custom web pages that work correctly in a development environment, but then fail t...

The download of the Dynamics CRM SDK includes the sdk assemblies (microsoft.crm.sdk.dll, microsoft.crm.sdktypeproxy.dll etc). There are 4 ...

Just a quick note to say that I've updated my post on the Advanced Developer Extensions . Shan McArthur of AdxStudio (who developed th...

The CRM 4.0.12 SDK has recently been released. Normally an SDK update is not particularly significant, but in this case it includes some ma...

When submitting a large number requests to the CrmService web service, you may occasionally get the error 'Only one usage of each socket...

I was working on some custom plugin registration tools recently, and came across some undocumented attribute types. Several customisation en...

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...

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...