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Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a multi-lingual Customer Relationship Management software package developed by Microsoft. Out of the box, the product focuses mainly on Sales, Marketing, and Service (help desk) sectors, but Microsoft has been marketing Dynamics CRM as an XRM platform and has been encouraging partners to use its proprietary (.NET based) framework to customize it to meet many different demands.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 (version 5) is a major update of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform. Its key focus is sales, marketing, and service. However, it is highly customizable using both client-side JavaScript or server-side .NET code.

Dynamics CRM 2011 introduced a drastic update of the server-side as well as client-side API's.

Major competitors to Dynamics CRM include SalesForce, SAP CRM and Oracle PeopleSoft CRM.

The Microsoft offering can be hosted on-premise by organizations, hosted in the public Microsoft Azure cloud for a fixed monthly fee, or hosted by a Microsoft Partner. This flexibility lets companies change their deployment strategy as their business needs change whilst utilizing a single organization.

End-users access Microsoft CRM in one of three ways:

  • Via a web browser - The currently supported browsers include Internet Explorer 7.0 or later, FireFox, and Chrome (on Windows XP or later) and Safari (on Mac OS X 10.7 or later) and Chrome. Non-IE browsers require the installation of Rollup 12 which was released in Q1 2013 for online version and is planned for Q3 2013 for on-premise.
  • Using a native Microsoft Outlook plugin
  • Using a mobile device with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Mobile (MS-cloud hosted only) or third-party applications such as CWR Mobility

Questions asked about Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 typically include those around configuration, client-side customization (eg forms, views, charts & dashboards, etc), deployment, or server-side development (workflow assemblies, plugins etc).

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Error registering plugins and/or workflows. Plug-in assembly does not contain the required types or assembly content cannot be updated

I implemented one custom workflow in in Visual Studio 2010 using CRM 2011 Developer Toolkit. It was working fine with system generated namespace. But, when I changed the namespace of my project, its throwing an error "Error registering plugins…
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Wrong SOAP Action header in request. Why?

I'm trying connecting to the MS CRM Deployment Service from within CRM plugin (i.e. I don't have ability to use app.config configuration file). The issue is it's really difficult to replace 'configuration magic' with source code. While I'm using…
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Dependency Injection in MS Dynamics CRM

I am currently getting started with the extending of Microsoft Dynamics CRM using Plugins. Is it possible to add Dependency injection to these plugins (for testing, loose coupling, etc. purposes)? Where can I register my IoC-container so that it's…
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How to send alert to user via plugin without using InvalidPluginExecutionException?

I am currently using InvalidPluginExecutionException to send the message to the user, but it turns out that the message is in English "Business Process Error" beyond which the error box appears the button "download log file". This is not an error…
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The namespace '' already contains a definition for 'Workflow'

I'm working on a Custom workflow activity. I've created my own helper.cs (Early Bound Entity Classes) with the Code Generation Tool (CrmSvcUtil.exe) When I try to compile the code, it returns the following error: The namespace '' already contains…
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In Dynamics 2011 SDK, how to determine target entity when LookupAttributeMetadata.Targets is empty?

Using the CRM 2011 SDK (v5.0.10) I'm running into an issue with a handful of Lookup fields where the target is not populated and am hoping someone can help me determine the best way to determine the referenced entity in these cases. Specifically,…
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CRM 2011 Workflow "Invalid Pointer" error

I have a custom workflow in CRM 2011 which is manually triggered against custom entity records. When a single record is selected for processing, the workflow is always successful. However when selecting more than one record, at least one will…
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a proxy type with the name account has been defined by another assembly

We have 2 orgs running in our on-premise crm 2011 system. We have generated early bound classes for both orgs. One of our plugins is throwing the "a proxy type with the name account has been defined by another assembly" error when deactivating…
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Source control for MS Dynamics CRM

I'm undecided about CRM at the moment. It's a great tool for the business users but so far for development it's been a bit against the grain. The next problem I need to tackle is how to easily source control javascript used within forms. We use TFS…
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Call C# Code from Ribbon JScript CRM Online 2011

I need to have some code execute on the click of the ribbon button on an entity that updates some related data from CRM Online 2011. I would prefer not to have to write all of this logic in JScript. Is there a way to call into C# code from…
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CRM 2011 - addCustomView on Google Chrome

I have been on a CRM 2011 project that uses a lot of custom views. I recently figured it out that all lookup custom views are only working properly in the internet explorer. When I try using google chrome (Version 51.0.2704.84 m) it simple does not…
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What is a relying party trust in adfs

Can someone explain what a relying party trust is. I am configuring IFD for CRM but I cannot find basic information on what a relying party is and what is does?
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Advanced Find - combine related entitie with OR

Is there any way to create that query? I need data from Adress and Contact Adress, normally i can just combine them by Combine OR but not in this case. I guess that i must write new plugin with PreExecute() method, get my query, parse data and then…
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Plugin Registration Tool source code

From version 5.0.13 the source code of Plugin Registration Tool is not available inside the CRM 2011 SDK (the executable is inside bin folder) Because Microsoft only hosts the latest version, the source code isn't available anymore. Someone has a…
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Load Balancing MS Dynamics CRM 2011 Sandbox Processing Service

Seems like I'm hitting a wall with this one, and not having much documentation on the matter isn't helping either. I run large custom import jobs to CRM regularly, and all of them involve calling the organization service from a custom client to…
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