Spying on Dynamics CRM Plugin Messages

Gayan Perera, 13 December 2010

Finding out what information gets handed to you via the IPluginExecutionContext is not easy, most of the time you’ll hook up a remote debugger or write to a log file to find out which is tedious and time consuming to setup.

To help you, we’ve created an application that you can run on your desktop, point it at the CRM server, select the messages, entities, stages and modes, click a button and start watching CRM in real time.

Here’s an example

As you can see from the above screenshot, you don’t have to worry about decoding the parameters that are within the IPluginExecutionContext, we’ve done it all for you, if you find that some items aren’t getting decoded or you want to tweak the application, full source code is available at http://mspy.codeplex.com

Enjoy!