MS CRM Role Utility

Ever since the Sandbox went down, I've received quite some questions around the Role Utility. Luckily I still had a copy available. For the ease of use I've uploaded this one and here's the link: link.Have fun

Speaker at Dutch Dynamics CRM User Group

Last week at the 4th of October, there was the first session for the Dutch Dynamics CRM User Group. This session was organized by the Dynamics User Group (http://www.dynug.nl) and hosted by Generali. The goal of this User Group is to get customers together and learn from eachother and have a voice within Microsoft.The agenda for this meeting was:- Welcome and Introductions- User Group and

Fetch the ObjectTypeCode based on EntityName

Not a very rocket science, but just something again that I don't want to type over and over again. So here's a piece of code that helps you to fetch the ObjectTypeCode based on the EntityName for CRM 3.0:private int GetObjectTypeCode (string entityName){ CrmMetaDataService.MetadataService metadataService = new CrmMetaDataService.MetadataService(); metadataService.Credentials =

Creating Environment independent solutions

When developing a solution for CRM, make sure that it runs on all different crm environments. Many implementations have their CRM installation on another port compared to the development environments. A way to handle this, is to look at the location of MS CRM as it is stored in the registery.// Set default valuesprivate const string CRM_REG_DIRECTORY = @"software\Microsoft\mscrm\";private const

Change requirement level at runtime

I've made quite some posts around how to dynamically modify the form by using JavaScript. One thing I haven't posted around yet, but what I do use quite often, is to modify the requirement level of attributes on the form at runtime. Based on a selection in the system, another field could become required. Also if the selection changes again, then the field should not be required anymore. Here is

Expert on Avanade.com

Avanade has create a profile for me on their public website in the experts section. It's quite a honer to be listed within the same list as Matt Joe, Dennis Mulder and Matt Parks. http://www.avanade.com/people/expert_detail.aspx?expertid=98If you want to become an Avanade expert as well, feel free to contact me (ronaldl at avanade dot com) and I'll make sure that you get in contact with the

Reawarded MVP

Hi Guys,As a reward for community work last year, Microsoft has reawarded me the Microsoft CRM MVP!My community work includes:- Around 1000 newsgroup and forum posts.- Around 75 blog posts, of which 35 self written articles. The blog had more than 75k visitors.- Writing the article "Many to many relationships" for the CRM Team blog and the article "The power of choice" for CRN.- Working as 'Ask