xrm

Differences between Microsoft CRM and xRM

Hello, I am browsing the new xrm.com page and I find it lacks some concrete information of what does it means. Could you please explain what are the main differences between Microsoft CRM and xRM? What extra features does it gives to the developer or customer? Thanks in advance. ...

Can you write a single FetchXML query to get 1:many relationship?

Is it possible to write a single FetchXML query that gets a root entity and multiple children? All I've been able to do is 1:1. ...

Unable to load connection string using xRM data context

Edited to add solution: changed to use the constructor that takes a Microsoft.Xrm.Client.CrmConnection rather that a String connection string and it works. I used the crmsvcutil.exe to generate the data context for our crm environment. When I try to initialize the connection. This line: public CSIDataContext(global::System.String n...

Best practice for populating a model object

Suppose I have few model classes like Person.cs, Car.cs, Manufacturer.cs each of which has 30-40 properties of varying datatypes. These models have to be populated using a Linq based framework called 'XrmContext' based on a Guid (primary key) match. Ordinary way of doing this to populated each column one by one manually like Person m...