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Passing information into Silverlight/Webpage in Dynamics CRM 2011

Vincent Zhong, 13 February 2012

Silverlight is a powerful development tool for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web and mobile applications. In Dynamics CRM 2011, you can create a Silverlight Web Resource, and then put it in a HTML web Resource. If you are going to open the Silverlight page from left navigation,
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Dashboard and Chart in Dynamics CRM 2011 – Part 1

Vincent Zhong, 20 February 2012

Recently I was given a task to assist a client with Dashboard and Chart issues, and provided a quick demo. I have learnt that the best way to learn is to teach! After my preparation and demo, I have great insight on how flexible and powerful Charts and Dashboards are, and how they can help a busines
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Learning Resources for Dynamic CRM 2011 – Part 3

Vincent Zhong, 27 February 2012

In my previous blog post, I showed you how to download Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK and start using the sample code to retrieve the ribbon definition for the site you chose. Now I will show you some other great learning resources in SDK that I found very useful. The next thing I will show
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Use Entity Mapping to implement the Clone function in Dynamics CRM 2011

Vincent Zhong, 02 March 2012

In my previous blog post about creating a “Clone” button, I showed you how to use JavaScript to open a new entity form, and then use “extraqs” to pass the values of the fields on the current form to the new form. However I did mentioned that if the fields you are going to cop
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Writing a Naming Plugin for Dynamics CRM 2011 Part 1

Vincent Zhong, 12 March 2012

Plugin is a very useful way to extend the out-of-box functionalities of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. It allows you to add custom business logic to Microsoft Dynamics CRM through the development and registration of plug-ins. Last week I have spent nearly the whole week in writing Naming Plugins. So
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Event Execution Pipeline in Dynamics CRM 2011

Vincent Zhong, 24 March 2012

A Plugin is a very powerful tool to extend the out-of-the-box functionality of Dynamics CRM 2011. You can integrate your custom business logic with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to modify or augment the standard behaviour of the platform. You can visit here to know more about Plugin Development. * In my pr
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Learning Resources for Dynamic CRM 2011

Vincent Zhong, 29 November 2011

As a Trainee Dynamic CRM Developer, continuously learning is one of my daily tasks. In my last 3 weeks, I have spent lots of time in Googling and reading all sorts of learning materials about Dynamic CRM 2011. Now I would like to share some of them with you. If you are new to Dynamic CRM 2011, and w
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Adding a Clone Record button in Dynamic CRM 2011 – Part 1

Vincent Zhong, 16 December 2011

Export the solution and create the web resource I have been involved in a project that needed to add a “Clone” button to a custom entity form. What the button does is, when you click the “Clone” button on a record, it will pop up a new browser window, and copy the values of the fields of the current
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Adding a Clone Record button in Dynamic CRM 2011 – Part 2

Vincent Zhong, 26 December 2011

Import the solution In my previous blog, I showed you how to create a new solution for ribbon customization. I will continue this topic and show you how to import the solution. Open the “customization.xml” file and add the custom ribbon button in. Again for more details about creating custom ribbon
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How to use JQuery to insert image into Dynamics CRM 2011 form

Vincent Zhong, 13 January 2012

If you open any entity form in Dynamics CRM 2011, like the one below You will see a very similar layout. However there will be a time when you may want to attach a photo to a record, like Account or Contact. In the next couple of blog posts, I will explore the best way to add a photo to the record.
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Inserting image into Dynamics CRM 2011 entity form

Vincent Zhong, 21 January 2012

In my last post, I talked about how to use JQuery to insert an image into entity form, but you do need to get the static URL of the image, and you also need some JQuery skill to modify the code. I used the combination of JQuery and Silverlight, to achieve the image upload function. Below is the new
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Inserting image into Dynamics CRM 2011 entity form – Revised

Vincent Zhong, 28 January 2012

In my last post, I talked about the improvement I made to the Entity form image using Silverlight approach. This week some changes were made: The first change was to hide the image when the form is a new entity form. You can see from the screenshot below if the user tries to create a new Counsellor
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Customize Sub-grid Ribbon Button for Specify Entity in Dynamic CRM 2011

Vincent Zhong, 04 February 2012

Last week I have spent most of my time in customizing Ribbon in Dynamics CRM 2011. There are two types of Ribbon customizations, those working with system ribbon controls and those creating new custom ribbon controls. The basic for these two types of customizations are pretty much the same, and ther
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Learning Resources for Dynamic CRM 2011 – Part 2

Vincent Zhong, 08 February 2012

Last month I wrote a blog post about the Learning Resources for Dynamic CRM 2011. Now I would like to extend this topic and focus on the one of the resources, which more for Developers, which is the SDK for Dynamics CRM 2011. You can download the SDK here: After you have downloaded an
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