With the Code First approach we can create clean entities without any EF specific code. After the first demo, I saw that you have to deal with the IDbSet interface, which is placed in the Entity Framework library. When you place the entities in your business dll you have to reference the EF library. This… Read More »
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 »
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 »