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    GUID generator website

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    July 5, 2014

    How many times you were in a situation, where you need a GUID to test your .Net application or fill a ‘uniqueidentifier’ column of SQL table. I found this GUID generator site very helpful. You just need to refresh the web page to get a new GUID every time. Not…

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    CRM Developer Toolkit for Visual Studio 2013

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    July 1, 2014

    There is no release of CRM Developer Toolkit for VS 2013. However by hacking the CRM Developer toolkit for VS 2012 we can get Developer Toolkit work for VS 2013. Refer steps mentioned in this article. 🙂

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    Auto generate new GUID for ‘uniqueidentifier’ column in SQL Table

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    June 30, 2014

    If you a have a column of type ‘uniqueidentifier’ in your SQL table, and you want to auto generate a new Guid every time when you insert a record, you can use the ‘Default Value or Binding’ property of ‘Column Properties’. Set Default Value or Binding = newid() 🙂

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    SQL Query to fetch top 1 record from each group

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    June 28, 2014

    I have a SQL table ‘Market’ with 3 Groups (i.e., Fruits, Vegetable and Meat) and below is the data   My requirement is From each group fetch the top 1 item by ‘Priority’ column (i.e., Priority = 1) like below Name Group Priority Apple Fruits 1 Fish Meat 1 Potato Vegetable 1 The…

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    List of supported plug-in messages by entity in CRM

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    May 29, 2014

    Have you ever got a requirement to check whether any given Plug-in message is supported by your entity? To check that quickly, there is an Excel sheet (i.e., Message-entity support for plug-ins.xls) comes with SDK, contain list of supported messages by entity. 🙂

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    Create an Organization with custom Currency Code as Base Currency

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    May 27, 2014

    Recently I was creating a new CRM Organization for “Mauritius” Customer and I had to set Base Currency as “Mauritius Rupee (MUR)”. But MUR currency code was not there in the list of available CRM currency codes. In these scenarios, we can type the Currency Code, Currency Name and Currency…

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  • CRM 2013

    Loading dependent jscript libraries in ribbon button’s execution CRM 2013

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    May 25, 2014

    In CRM 2011, To load the dependent Jscripts on execution of ribbon button command actions We can add the dependent script as a Library in the “Javascript Command” and pass “isNaN” as Function Name (Refer my existing article) In CRM 2013, I observed a slight change in the execution w.r.t the order. The…

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    Can only generate one of classes or data sets – Error with Xsd.exe tool

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    May 24, 2014

    I was getting below exception when I try to generate a class file from my XML schema using command (xsd “mySchema.xsd”) Reason & Fix – Reason is, Xsd tool unable to determine whether to generate Dataset or Class Fix is, pass argument “/c” to generate Class or “/d” to generate…

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    How to debug XAML Workflows when invoked remotely

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    May 20, 2014

    Assume you have a XAML workflow created using WF designer and you trigger this workflow from a console application which is in another server. Below are the steps to debug Install “Workflow Manager Tools” After installation you can find a folder under “C:\Program Files (x86)\Workflow Manager Tools\1.0” Open “Microsoft.Workflow.TestServiceHost.exe.config” using…

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    Quick Create Forms – CRM 2013

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    April 16, 2014

    ‘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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