Before CRM 2015 SP1 update, an alternative option to debug the Plug-in or Workflow for developers was to use tracing messages which would help to trace the program using custom messages. The developer had to manually throw an exception in order to trace the program. And then when the plug in/workflow is triggered a dialog is… Read More: Plug-in Tracing in Dynamics CRM 2015 Update 1 »
One can debug CRM plug ins without connecting to CRM server or without remote debugging. Here are the steps as in how you can use Profiler for debugging plug ins: 1> Connect to CRM using plugin registration tool of March SDK 2012. 2> Click on Install Profiler 3> You will find a… Read More: How to Debug Plugins using Profiler »
We had a requirement to do some calculation and update self record of custom entity. We have created a plug-in and registered it on post operation of update event. The code was reading the post image, updating some fields and updating the same. The plug-in was working fine for single record. But when two records… Read More: Issue with plug-in in CRM 2011 »
CRM SDK provides way for you to include the debug details about your plug-in in case you need to trace the plug-in execution. For this you will have to initialize the “ITracingService”. The service provides way to trace the details and display it whenever plug-in fails and throws an exception. //Initialize the serviceITracingService tracingService =… Read More: Use Tracing in CRM 2011 Plugins »
Recently we tried to upgrade a highly customized CRM 4 install to CRM 2011 and thought it would be worthwhile to list out our findings for the benefit for all. CRM 2011 supports both in-place upgrade as well as a fresh CRM 2011 install with a later CRM 4.0 organization import into CRM 2011. We… Read More: CRM 4 to CRM 2011 Upgrade. »
Now everyone knows, this would result in a recursive loop. It is always preferred that in such cases, the attribute that needs to be updated should be added to the property bag in the Pre-Update event itself. However, if you do come across a situation where you need to update an attribute on the successful… Read More: Call an Update on the Post Update event of an… »
CRM Plugins and Workflows provide the ability to pass external information to the plugins as well as receive information from plugin that can be used for further processing. Plugins: In case of Plugins, you can use the Secured Parameter and Unsecured Parameter that is available during Plugin registration to pass static information that can be… Read More: How to use Parameters in Workflows/Plugins »
Apart from the various improvisations of Plugin over Callouts, is the ability to share data between events of an entity. This option was not available when working with Callouts in CRM 3.0. The workaround we used then was to create an attribute and store the information in an attribute in the Pre Create event. In… Read More: Use of Shared Variables in Plugins »