It is not possible to deploy referenced libraries with the assembly which contains the crm plugins. You can install the libraries into the GAC, but it isn’t really a good solution. Two weeks ago, I found a cool solution in the internet about embedding referenced assemblies into one library or exe. I implemented this code… Read More »
In my first crm 2011 project I struggled a little bit with the early binding functionality. When you generate the entities with CrmSvcUtil and place the entities in the plugin project everything works fine. But when you seperate the entities from you plugin logic in a other dll, early binding won’t work. The first solution… Read More »
One of the new WCF 4.0 features is routing. Routing can be used for multiple purposes: – Service versioning – “Extended” load balacing – Content-based routing scenario – Service partitioning – Protocol bridging – etc. In this example, I have two person services. One in London and one in Paris. The client knows only the… Read More »
This is a very small MVVM tutorial. I used the MVVM Light (Galasoft) framework. I like this framework because, it brings a lot of very useful features. The idea behind MVVM is to seperate the UI from the code. The most things I like are that your application is testable, “blendable” and you don’t have… Read More »
With DataTables you have the ability to set a Error Message per Row. This is useful, when you want to display i.e. the Validation Errors in the GUI. In a 3-Tier Application your client communicates with the Application Server via Services. Exchanging DataTables in a .NET Application works well. But if your services are used… Read More »
The new version of Visual Studio (Ultimate) brings a lot of new architecture features with it. It allows you to create UML sequence diagrams from extisting code. Or it visualizes the most important components in your application. This visualizations are very helpful when you have to modificate/extend an existing project written by other developers. Here… Read More »