Update documentation to clarify how CRM deals with dates: time zones, DST, UTC etc.
I think it would be really helpful to have separate page in the SDK documentation explaining how CRM deals with dates.
I know some information is there but I think it would be great to have it expanded upon and in one place.
I'm thinking of things like:
Dates a...
Better integration between CRM and Azure
I've been playing with the CRM and Azure integration and there are a couple of crucial bits of information missing in the context passed to Azure by the supplied plug-in.
1. The Service addresses.
2. A user token.
The scenario is that I wanted to run a long-running job using a...
Add an UpdateMany method to the web service/SDK
Unless I'm missing something, if I want to do a bulk update in code at the moment I have to fetch the identifiers of all the entities I want to update and then update them one at a time.
I'm using CRM 2011 online so I can't trace the SQL (which is annoying), but my assumption is that us...
Improve debugging when developing using CRM 2011 online (MS hosted)
When using CRM 2011 on-line as hosted by Microsoft as a development environment it is difficult to debug plug-ins because we can't get to the server. The same problems will apply to custom processes when they are eventually allowed.
Some suggestions would be:
- Some way to allow...
Inheritance on Entities or Copy Entity
There are many instances where you have a group of entities which are specializations of a more generic entity.
At the moment this is difficult to model effectively as the choice is to create one entity with a "type" attribute and many fields which are relevant only to the type you choo...
Port the CRM SDK to Silverlight
It would be really helpful to have the SDK assemblies ported to Silverlight. Because of the limited extensibility options in CRM 2011 online, Silverlight becomes very useful in creating additional functionality.
Because the SDK is unavailable to Silverlight it is more difficult to devel...
Improve FetchXml, Query Expressions and Linq - support more SQL please!
The inflexibility of the various query methods are a real pain point when developing with CRM. Particularly when developing client applications like silverlight or desktop.
There are many limitations such as lacking 'true' aggregation (i.e. with group by), sub queries, union, sending mu...
Ability to add passparams="1" from the UI when hosting Silverlight in the navigation menu.
When you host a silverlight control in the navigation menu there is no way to set passparams from the UI so that the control can retrieve the query parameters from the URL.
You can do it on the main form by checking the "Pass record object-type code and unique identifiers as parameters"...
Unable to get value of the property 'get_$C1': object is null or undefined
I'm using CRM 2011 Online.
We were running a silverlight control hosted from a Navigation Link on a form. When closing the form I often get the following error: Unable to get value of the property 'get_$C1': object is null or undefined.
See the attached text file for the ...
Imrove testing of Silverlight controls (CRM 2011 online)
At the moment, the only way of testing a silverlight control which requires context information is to deploy it to a CRM instance.
It would be very useful both for manual and automated testing to be able to run the Silverlight application directly from Visual Studio.
The problem ...