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 »
RavenDB is a document database. The main difference between RavenDB and a relational database is, that RavenDB doesn’t support relation between the rows/entities/documents. A document contains structural data, which is stored in JSON format. This is a quickstart into RavenDB: Step 1 – Database: Create a new database. This DB doesn’t contain any structure. It’s… Read More »
When you deal with very dynamic dictionaries, you have always to check if the data exists before accessing it. This can blow up your code. With the dynamic data type (.NET 4.0) you can do this a little bit more elegant. Example: Here are my data classes. You see that the Person class has a… Read More »
After my last post about .NET – Android, I was pretty excited about the possibilities. Therefore, I decided to create a new little “useful” app for my phone. If your mouse batteries are low and you have to finish something, you can use your phone as a mouse. How it works on Android: I created… Read More »
The motivation of aspect-oriented programming is to separate program logic. Application can be devided in two concerns. 1. Core: Contains the program/business logic like calculation etc. 2. System: Contains system specific processes like logging. In this example, I show you how to implement a AOP based logger. Logging is something you need very often. But… Read More »