Solution Patching in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016

Introduction In our earlier blog we looked into the enhancements made to the way solutions can be created in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016. Now moving forward we will look at a common scenario of sending out Patches for your solution. Often it happens that you may need to update a few components of your managed solution… Read More »

Solution Management with Dynamics CRM 2016

Introduction The only supported way of transferring customizations from one CRM organization to another has been through Solutions. The concept of Solution when first released in CRM 2011 was a breakthrough considering before then there was no concept of IP protection. With Solution Management came the concept of Managed and Unmanaged Solutions. Managed a way… Read More »

Web API Actions in Dynamics CRM 2016

Taking forward our series on using WEB API in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016, we will now touch upon a feature that was not available in ODATA v2 of the earlier versions. ODATA v2 only provided support for CRUD operations. But Dynamics CRM has some special messages/functions for special operations that are beyond the basic CRUD… Read More »

Execute fetchxml using Web API in Dynamics CRM 2016

Introduction Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2016 Update and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 (on-premises) introduced new concept called The Web API. It can be used across a wide variety of programming languages, platforms, and devices. The Web API implements the OData (Open Data Protocol), version 4.0, an OASIS standard for building and consuming Restful APIs. Basically… Read More »

No need to purchase Bing Maps Licenses for Dynamics CRM

With Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Bing Maps integration, organizations can visualize and analyze their Dynamics 365 data on the map to make smarter business decisions with the location-based context of their data. You don’t need to purchase Bing Maps License separately as it is already a part of our geo-analytical mapping tool, Maplytics. Bing Maps… Read More »

Design Auto Complete Text controls in Dynamics CRM 2016

Introduction: On Dec 1st Microsoft released another great version of Dynamics CRM – CRM 2016 that has loads of new features and not to forget developer enhancements too. One of the developer enhancements added to Dynamics CRM 2016 is “Auto Complete” which allows us to provide auto complete feature for the single line text fields.… Read More »