CRMAsyncService using 100% CPU

With one of my projects I've experienced a situation in which the CRMAsyncService is requiring 99% CPU power. Since this doesn't leave much left for CRM, we needed to get this fixed. One of my colleagues, Maarten Smid, came up with the solution of installing the Service Pack 1 for .NET 3.0. But before this can be installed, some prerequisites needed to be installed.The first step is to install

Plugin registration tools for Visual Studio 2005

The newest update of the SDK, version 4.0.8, includes updated projects for the plugin registration tool as well as the plugin developer tool. While I usually am pleased with updates, this update could cause some issues for some people. The updated projects are build in Visual Studio 2008 whereas they used to be build in Visual Studio 2005. This means that you will not be able anymore to run the

Displaying inactive records in associated view

In some situations you do want to show the inactive records in an associated view as well. My fellow MVP George Doubinski wrote an article about how to solve this by using a plugin:http://crm.georged.id.au/post/2008/03/07/Displaying-inactive-records-in-associated-view.aspx.In this post I will show that there are more routes to Rome. I've looked into the option of editing the query which is being

Read-only URL Addressable Form

The SDK does describe URL Addressable Forms, but one thing which I do miss on this page, is details around how to link to a form in readonly format. This is done by using the following URL:http://server/orgname/_forms/readonly/readonly.aspx?objTypeCode=objectTypeCode.Of course you need to change the server to servername, orgname to organization name and the objectTypeCode to the entity object

New Statement of Direction paper

Microsoft has just release a new Statement of Direction document. Due to NDA restrictions I cannot share contents of this document (yet), but assuming that you are a partner or a customer, you can download this paper yourself from either of the following locations.Partnersource: https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/marketing/statementofdirection/MD_CRM_SOD.htmCustomersource: https://

Using Advanced Find for FetchXML builder v4.0

Some time ago I have written an article about how to use the Advanced Find as FetchXML builder. Today I tried using the javascript:prompt() method on a CRM 4.0 deployment and found out that the code doesn't work anymore. This alert script does still work though.javascript:alert(resultRender.FetchXml.value);A slightly different code which might be easier to remember is:javascript:alert(

Setting the focus to a tab

Today me and a colleague worked on setting the focus of a crmForm automatically to a specific tab. After a bit of research we found that this code works:crmForm.all.tab1Tab.click();With this code in mind I looked on the internet and found that my fellow MVP Jim Wang posted that more than a year ago as well :)Anyway, it works!