Category: Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CRM)

To install the Resco Mobile Solution, first you are using a browser that supports Silverlight and you are running in non-Private mode. Go to: https://www.resco.net/mobilecrm/woodford.html Select the version of the Resco client to install. I will select 2013, 2015, 2016: Download the file: In Dynamics 365, import the file: You will see when complete: Once downloaded, click Publish All Customizations: Refresh Dynamics 365. You will see MobileCRM under Settings. Select Woodford: … Continue reading Installing and Configuring the Resco Mobile Solution for Dynamics 365

When running a plugin, developers may see the error: The data contract type ‘Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.OrganizationServiceFault’ cannot be serialized in partial trust because the property ‘ExceptionRetriable’ does not have a public getter. One reason for this, is when you are using tracing in your plugin, you should have tracing enabled in Dynamics 365 settings. Code: In System Settings, enable:  

In this post we will install the Dynamics 365 Report Authoring Extension in SQL Server Data Tools 2015. First, download: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50375 This will download: Select one of the options: Click to Accept: Click Next: Click Next: Click Install: Click Finish: Now when you create a new BIDS project in Visual Studio, you will see the option:  

In Dynamics 365 9.x, there are new Xrm.WebApi JavaScript methods available to call the Dynamics 365 Web APIs. These new methods are very useful in that the plumbing for making these calls is taken care of, so as a developer you can easily create, retrieve, update and delete etc in a few lines of code. Here we will go through examples of how to use the API. Create To create a … Continue reading How to Use the Dynamics 365 Xrm.WebApi

TLS, “Transport Layer Security” is a protocol that provides privacy between 2 applications. TLS has two layers, 1) TLS Record Protocol, which provides security, and 2) TLS Handshake Protocol, which allows the apps to authenticate. TLS 1.2 is the latest release. As the specification states: The primary goal of the TLS protocol is to provide privacy and data integrity between two communicating applications. TLS is supported by the Microsoft .NET Framework in … Continue reading Dynamics 365, TLS 1.2 and How to Fix Your Apps

In Dynamics 365, records can have photos attached to them. For example, let’s say we have a custom entity called Guests, which have the entity photo attached: In this post, we will create a C# app to download all the images on this entity using C#. First, create a new console app in Visual Studio: Install Xrm Tooling: There are a few fields related to the entity image. These are: … Continue reading Dowload Dynamics 365 Entity Record Photo in C#