How to fix CRM2013 Application Bar hidden by Silverlight Web Resource

If you have any Silverlight Web Resources in your site map that are hosted by an HTML Web Resource, you may find that when you upgrade to CRM2013 and use the pull down Application Bar the Silverlight page is rendered on top of the navigation buttons so that they are obscured and hidden from the user... [More]

Microsoft.Xrm.Client (Part 3b): Configuration via app/web.config

In this series we have been looking at the Developer Extensions provided by the Microsoft.Xrm.Client assembly: Part 1 - CrmOrganizationServiceContext and when should I use it? Part 2 - Simplified Connection Management & Thread Safety Part 3a – CachedOrganizationService So far in this s... [More]

Asynchronous loading of JavaScript in CRM 2013

When CRM2011 UR 12 (POLARIS) introduced asynchronous loading of web resources, there were some unfortunate side effects caused by the load order in which the scripts were executed not being the same as defined by form customisations. If you had scripts that required a previous scripts to be loaded f... [More]

4 things you need to know about the Command Bar

This post provides the important information you need to know in order to transition to customising the Command Bar in Dynamics CRM 2013. 1. The Command Bar is a Ribbon in disguise! The Ribbon Bar in Dynamics CRM 2013 to a certain degree has been replaced by the Command Bar but it still exists on ... [More]

How to change process and stage programmatically

Scenario UPDATE: With CRM2015 - the new client side process API should be used to set the current step. The following approach should be only used for setting the process to the first step. If you have more than one Dynamics CRM 2013 Business Process Flow for a given entity users can easily change... [More]