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This article describes how to simulate a long operation in Dynamics 365 (CRM) using a simple custom plugin that introduces a delay using the Thread.Sleep function. Background: recently we have been investigating an issue regarding some timeouts happening in a third party application which connects to our Dynamics 365 service. At the moment, it is difficult to tell … Continue reading Simulate long operations in Dynamics 365 (CRM)
An OptionSet may not be a Picklist, but a Picklist is always an OptionSet. This is something I had to consider last week to fix an issue within the Dynamics Custom Emails solution and handle State and Status attributes correctly. The issue was caused by an unexpected cast from StatusAttributeMetadata to PicklistAttributeMetadata. Both classes inherits … Continue reading An OptionSet may not be a Picklist
Maximum attribute name lengths allowed in Dynamics 365 (CRM) #msdyn365
The new CRM SDK 2015 doesn't give support yet for our known CRM Developer Toolkit, which has been part of the CRM SDK until CRM 2013. Basically, the CRM SDK 2015 assemblies have been compiled with .NET Framework 4.5.2, but CRM Developer Toolkit was compiled using NET Framework 4.5. See the next Microsoft article for more details. For instance, let's check the … Continue reading Dynamics CRM 2015 SDK and Developer Toolkit
Last week we got a couple of new releases for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Update Rollup 10 and SDK 5.0.12 Update Rollup 10: Main features: Windows 8 / Internet Explorer 10 / Office 2013 Preview compatibility Many performance and stability-related fixes, including fixes to the CRM Client for Microsoft Outlook Contains all hotfixes / updates originally … Continue reading [CRM 2011] New UR 10 and SDK 5.0.12
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