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Most successful product line of Microsoft Dynamics

Which of the dynamics product will make it main line of dynamics? Which is the most technically advance version? which has the most successful product in the market. In short which product should I plan to get experience on? Edit: Is it easy to switch from one product to another? ...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM UI: Silverlight WCF Call inside sitemap

Hi all, I've built a Silverlight Dashboard to be hosted in Dynamics 4.0 UI (sitemap link) - It calls a WCF service which inturn uses Linq to Sql (with a CrmImpersonator) to query the CRM database. It all works on my Dev machine but when I deploy it to our development server I get the following javascript errors: "Unhandled Error in Si...

What is the best way to determine the path to the ISV directory?

MSCRM 4.0 Problem: I'm currently storing xml files in the ISV directory along with my web applications. From a plugin (or potentially a seperate app), I need to find an easy way to navigate to the ISV directory to read these xml files. This routine will be called extremely often, so processing minimization should be a strong considerat...

Add a button to the Dynamics AX About screen

Anyone have some sample code for adding a button (with a click method popping up a dialog) to the About screen in Dynamics AX? Thanks ...

To CRM or not to CRM (MS)?

Hello, We use MS Dynamics 4.0 at work for our CRM. This handles all contact management, marketing, resource sharing w/ sharepoint integration, workflow management / collaboration and essentially is used by every department in the firm in some way or another. We have requirements from business for a new application that we have a tight ...

Dynamics CRM: Create users with specific GUIDs

For integration purposes our users in Dynamics CRM need to have the same GUIDs as in the rest of our environment (several custom web apps built on ASP.NET and SQL Server 2005). But when we try to create a new Dynamics user with a certain GUID, Dynamics just ignores it and creates its own (the pattern of which leads me to believe that it...

Want to learn Microsoft-Dynamics CRM. Please suggest for Dynamics Beginners?

Hi I need to work on a Dynamics project in next 3 months with Pharmaceutical client. I have been working on .NET technologies from last couple of years. Now I am interestred in learning Microsoft Dynamics. Please suggest how and where to start for the Dynamics Beginners...... your ideas/ any tutorial links / materials/ Books/ Traning/...

How to create master/detail view in Microsoft dynamic CRM 4.0?

Hi Can anybody please show me step by step how to create Master/Detail(Parent/Child) view in Microsoft Dynamic CRM 4.0? Thanks ...

Microsoft Dynamics (Navision) vs C# .NET

I am an experienced C# / .NET developer and recently been offered an opportunity to become Microsoft Dynamics (Navision) developer (training, certification etc will all be paid for by employer). I've never been involved in anything to do with this Dynamics so I wanted to ask what is like to be a Dynamics developer in comparison to C#/.NE...

Export methods from Navision Dynamics 5.0 to datawarehouse/OLAP purposes?

I'm using Navision Dynamics 5.0 and need to export all the financial data into my datawarehouse on a regular basis (1 time daily). And therefore I don't want to use csv-files as exporting method. Which other methods are normally used? This must be a regular task for all companies who uses Navision Dynamics, and needs to get the data out...

Career with Navision - what is waiting for me?

Recently I got a proposal to take a position with Navision. I have to give a reply soon but I'm at a loss. I've been doing ASP.NET/SQL last years, recently ASP.NET MVC/jQuery. I really enjoy creating web software. Web thought pattern, design, usability it's what I like. Still, in the region where I'm located (Germany) it's extremely di...

How can I connect to a Microsoft Dynamics CRM server using Python?

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM service uses NTLM authentication, which makes connecting to it from a python process using suds somewhat complicated. I'm looking for a code sample that will: Send and receive the response from a RetrieveAttributeRequest Send and receive the response from an Execute request. This must use Python 2.6 or Pyth...

How to change user department in Navision 2009 (role tailored)

How can i change users deparments in Microsoft Dynamics NAV RoleTailored Client, say i want to put myself in the [Purchase] department. Please help. ...

Edit Filter criteria in Account history?

I’m using Microsoft Dynamics 4.0. I would like to know how to add attributes to the filter option in Accounts > History. Instead of sorting by how long ago, I would like to sort by what type of task it was, Such as email, phone call, fax, service ..ect.. Is this possible? If so How would I go about implementing this change? ...

SOAP Exception creating record of custom entity in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Hi all, I am getting following error when inserting a record in custom entity. 0x80041102 The entity with a name = '' was not found in the MetadataCache. Platform Will appreciate if any one of you could let me know what is the cause of this error. ...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 - Custom Views for entities (Advance Find - saved views) - where are their queries in database?

So each CRM user has their own saved views for each entity such as Account, Manager, Fund etc. But here's the issue: I need to delete a tab which has some form data. But if I delete the tab the views that use the information on this tab will break. For example, if I deleted a tab called "FUNDS" then a view that I had saved as "Fund In...