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NoLock – what is that? NoLock is a QueryExpression property used to specify how a RetrieveMultiple request will behave. Take a look at MS documentation since I’m not used to rewrite someone else’s posts, CRM upgrade features and MS limited documentation. Long story short: NoLock property sets to TRUE looks at database record lock and waits […]

RollupField is not recalculating RollupField – yes, nice CRM >= 2015 feature. Theoretically a cure for all previous “manual” calculations. Of course it has some limitations but this post is not about that. MSDN documentation contains these informations anyway. Unfortunatelly I came across a major issue related with rollup field when it’s type is Money. When? […]

CRM database without Active Directory You may ask yourself now if for any reason you will have to use CRM database without access to Active Directory. And because I have written this post it means yes – it can happen, even very often 🙂 When? Some Clients for security reasons don’t give access to AD or […]

toString null or undefined – Description I can bet that each of you has at some point encountered with this issue. Especially when working on custom entities or customized built-in entities form. What is the cause? Hmm, there is a couple of possible reasons. Reasons First of all – Microsoft fault 🙂 Some internal form scripts […]

Linq LoadProperty Issue – Description Recently I had to fix some legacy code (one of the worst code I have ever seen) and improve requests performance. When reviewing the code everything looks fine. There was a OrganizationServiceContext generated by crmsvcutil. Because one of the property was N:N relation a LINQ LoadProperty method was used. Nevertheless business logic […]

ErrorSerializingRegFile  – when I first met with this one If you have found this post I assume that you have already looked for *.registerfile errors, plugin and workflow mismatches between register file and already registered items, deployment administrator security rights. ErrorSerializingRegFile – what that can mean? Everything during plugin deployment looks right, but is it? So […]

Count total number of records – what is the issue How simple can that be to count total number of records – just use linq query using EntitySet object like the one below var contactCounter = new ServiceContext(_service).ContactSet.Select(item => item).Count(); and that’s it. But no – you will get an exception: Invalid ‘count’ condition. An entity member is […]

Save and publish one click – what is it for If you are customizing loads of entities forms here is a solution that can speed it up a bit – save and publish one click. When I customize form, the most often repeated operations are: save publish close customization form reload entity record form Solution […]

Entity name by object type code – what is the issue Recently I found myself in a situation where there was no Xrm.Page.data.entity object so getEnityName() could not be used. Yes, there are form where it’s not available 🙂 I thought, phi, piece of cake. I remembered that there is FormEditorWebService.asmx which has a GetEnityId() so […]

What for? Some time ago I had to create and customize ~20 entities. After editing form, saving, publishing and reloading over and over again I thought about creating custom button for publishing. Yeah – why not. But this functionality already exists Yes, that’s true. If anyone hasn’t check how does the built-in publish button works […]