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Continue reading →: Quick Create Forms – CRM 2013
‘Quick Create’ form is the latest addition in CRM 2013 new set of features. ‘Quick Create’ form enable you to create records quickly by just filling the key information (i.e., fields) using global ‘Create’ button. In this article I would like to provide few key points about ‘Quick Create’ form To enable…
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Continue reading →: Check network performance using CRM Diagnostics page
With the release of CRM 2011 UR 4, CRM built a diagnostics page to check network performance between the client and server. Using diagnostics page we can check the bandwidth, latency and JavaScript Rendering performance. This is a quick and easy way to identify the network performance without having to install…
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Continue reading →: Site map changes after Activity Feeds solution import
In our CRM application we removed ‘Sales’ tab as per a business requirement. Later as part of another requirement we installed ‘Activity Feeds’ managed solution in our application. To our surprise ‘Sales’ tab resurfaced only with “What’s New” link. Fix – To remove ‘Sales’ tab we followed below steps…
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Continue reading →: Get nearby locations using Bing maps – WP 8
Using ‘Bing Maps Task’ we can get the nearby locations (i.e., Hospitals,Coffee shops or Shopping malls) on the Map. Add a button to your XAML page and on ‘Click’ event handler place below code. using Windows.Devices.Geolocation; private async void btnMapTask_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { // Get the Current location Coordinates Geolocator geolocator…
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Continue reading →: A first chance exception of type ‘System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException’ – WP8
Other day I got below error while executing my application. A first chance exception of type ‘System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException’ occurred in System.Windows.ni.dll The exception was in ‘App.xaml.cs’ file’s InitializeComponent() method Reason – There could be many reasons for the exception Even if there is an invalid space in your xaml file it…
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Continue reading →: Text to Speech – WP8
Windows Phone 8 has included the Text to Speech feature out of the box in the platform.Text to speech is very easy to use in your App (only takes 2 lines of code) using ‘SpeechSynthesizer’ class. Below is the code var synthesizer = new SpeechSynthesizer(); await synthesizer.SpeakTextAsync(“Your text here”);…
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Continue reading →: Playing a song from library – WP8
Here is the logic to play a particular song from library. Logic is to loop through all the songs in Media Library and if the song name matches to our song play the song. string favoriteSong = “mySong.mp3”; using (Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media.MediaLibrary library = new Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media.MediaLibrary()) { foreach (var song in library.Songs) …
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Continue reading →: Setting the Start Page – Windows Phone 8
In my windows phone 8 application I have 2 xaml files. By default when you run the application, it opens ‘MainPage.xaml’. To set my second file (i.e., ‘MediaPlayer.xaml’) as start page. • Open ‘WMAppManifest.xml’ • In ‘Application UI’ tab, set Navigation Page = MediaPlayer.xaml We can also change it in App.xaml…
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Continue reading →: CRM 2013 new form lay out and Notes control
In CRM 2013 when you create a new entity and open ‘Main’ Customization form, it looks as below It’s not how CRM 2011 form looks. In CRM 2011, you get separate ‘General’ and ‘Notes’ tabs How to get back CRM 2013 form like CRM 2011 with separate General and Notes tabs…
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