CRM 2011 Essential Tooling when you want to work clever

Good one from good MVP  - http://niiranen.eu/crm/2013/08/your-essential-toolkit-for-microsoft-dynamics-crm/

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Prabath Randeniya. 

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Custom Code Validation Tool

Hi Guys

To help you prepare for your upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, we have created the Custom Code Validation Tool for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013. When using JavaScript code in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, it is possible that some code will stop working or cause an error when you upgrade. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Custom Code Validation Tool helps identify potential problems so that a developer can fix them. Please run this tool on your CRM instance to help identify potential issues with custom JavaScript in JavaScript libraries and HTML web resources. It will detect issues in the custom web resources that will no longer work after the upgrade is completed. The most common issues that this tool targets are:
• CRM v4 client SDK calls
• CRM 2007 end points
• Common DOM manipulations
Running this tool before upgrade will enable you to identify issues and fix them prior to your scheduled upgrade so that your upgrade process can run smoothly.

Here it is http://www.microsoft.com/en-GB/download/details.aspx?id=30151

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Prabath Randeniya.

Layerd Architecture for CRM projects

Still we user Following layered Architecture for our projects

 

                Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition  -> Design Fundamentals - > Chapter 5: Layered Application Guidelines

 

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Prabath Randeniya

Web Resource Editor in Sky Drive

HI All

        If you want you can edit CRM Web Resource ( Specially HTML5 Content) in Sky Drive as well.

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AKA

Summary of Changes Between Versions

This is unavoidable when we start to change CRM 4.0 in to CRM 2011.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg309341.aspx

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AKA

Identify New Services in Dynamic CRM 2011 and required Assemblies for New Project

IDiscoveryService Web Service

A single Microsoft Dynamics CRM installation can host multiple organizations on multiple servers. Therefore, it is important to specify which organization you want to access. The IDiscoveryService Web service returns a list of organizations that the specified user belongs to and the URL endpoint address for each organization. For more information about the IDiscoveryService Web service, see Discover the URL for Your Organization with IDiscoveryService Web Service and IDiscoveryService.

IOrganizationService Web Service

The primary Web service for accessing data and metadata in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is the IOrganizationService Web service. For more information about the IOrganizationService Web service, see Use the IOrganizationService Web Service to Read and Write Data or Metadata and IOrganizationService.

Add the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Assemblies to Your Project

Most of the time you will choose to use the SDK assemblies in your development projects. Using the assemblies is the recommended developer scenario for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. These assemblies are in the SDK\Bin folder, along with the corresponding Visual Studio IntelliSense XML files. For more information about the assemblies, their contents and usage, see Assemblies Included in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK.

Add the Service Reference to Your Project

You may have a development scenario where you want to include the service reference in your project rather than using the assemblies. To find the correct service references for your organization, see Download the Endpoints Using the Dynamics CRM Developer Resources Page.

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AKA

Get Idea about CRM 2011 Assemblies

When you convert your code from CRM 4 to CRM 2011 you need following reference.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg334621.aspx

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AKA