Microsoft Dynamics Solution Packager Tool

One challenge you face as an xRM development team is management of the customizations.  Even with the addition of Solutions in CRM 2011, maintaining customizations across multiple environments poses several challenges, such as: Maintaining a common schema – across…

Resolving Microsoft Dynamics CRM Asynchronous Deadlocks

It is not uncommon that we are called upon to assist a customer who is having deadlocking issues with their Microsoft Dynamics CRM solution. Often times the deadlocks are caused by missing indexes, out of date statics, insufficient hardware, server configuration, bad…

JSON Data Type Web Resource in Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Here is a simple trick that will allow you to store JSON formatted data in a Web Resource in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.  This provides a much more developer-friendly alternative to the XML data type that CRM offers.  The benefits of using JSON to store and transfer data…

Filtered lookup using web resources

Overview One very helpful option added to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is the ability to apply custom filtering to a lookup control. This configuration becomes a simple but powerful tool for guiding user input and enforcing business policy. Out-of-the-box, CRM offers a…

Dynamics CRM Field Creator

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM customization interface has come a very long ways since its inception, but creating a lot of fields is still a very manual and time consuming process. Celedon Partners has created a simple utility that will create new fields in Microsoft…