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Announcing List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
I am happy to announce that the Microsoft Dynamics CRM team has released the List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. List Web Part can be installed on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1+ and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1+ . The List Web Part is free for download and use. The List Web -
Dynamics NAV 2009 and MS Office Integration, send-to Excel and Word
This blog describes changes in office integration feature, send-to Excel and Word, when using RTC client in NAV 2009. Send-to menu option on RTC client is typically located in menu, under Actions – Send to option. Shortcuts for this functionality is added, but unlike version 5.0, only send -to Word and Excel options are available. To export any -
Use Shared Data Source for custom Microsoft Dynamics CRM reports
Meet guest blogger Jim Wang, Microsoft Dynamics CRM MVP. He is a technical consultant working for 2B.net, an UK based consulting company. He has been working on Microsoft Dynamics CRM since version 1.2. Recently I have been asked to modify some reports. In my current project we have 4 environments (Development, Training, UAT, and Production) -
Automation Objects in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009
Overview The Automation object is often used to integrate NAV business logic with external processes and thereby extend the functionality of the product, such as integration with other products like Office. Automation objects must expose a COM interface, and every time we cross a process boundary is worth thinking about performance, but issues that involve -
ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0 Warning Event ID: 1309 due to Request time out
Have you ever had users complain about the CRM web application timing out on large operations? If so, you may want to check the ASP.Net timeout setting. The reason for the warning is that the execution time required by CRM connecting with your remote SQL Server is exceeding the currently set ASP.NET request execution timeout -
Auditing Report Execution using the ReportServer Database
We welcome our guest blogger David Jennaway who is the technical director at Excitation and a CRM MVP. Reporting Services is usually considered at most as just the engine for executing and rendering reports. However, it also has its own SQL database that contains information that can be useful. In this article I’ll look at -
Using variables and C/AL code in a report in NAV 2009
This previous blog “NAV 2009 – The structure of reports in VS report designer” describes how to get data from your data items into the layout of a report in Visual Studio (VS) report designer. This time we look at how to control the iterations of a report with code, and showing variables rather than fields -
Member, Static variable and Thread safety in Plug-in for CRM 4.0
Are you looking for best practices in plug-in development? Are you seeing data inconsistency and slow performance issues in the plug-in intermittently? Are you having problems with CRM 3.0 plug-in showing inconsistent/unknown Data after upgrade? If the answer is YES, please continue reading this article. A CRM 4 Plug-in is an implementation of the IPlugin -
Dynamics NAV and export to Excel: Export dates as true excel dates
When running Send-to Excel functionality and exporting data to MS Excel using style sheets, all data exported form NAV is formatted as either numbers or strings. That also includes dates, that are exported as strings and not formatted as true dates in excel. As of update 1 for NAV 5.0 SP1, data.xml generated when running export to excel -
NAV 2009 – The structure of reports in VS report designer
One thing is to make a report look pretty. But before you can do that, you have to make it work first. This post is about how to get the data structure right when designing reports in VS report designer for the new client in NAV 2009. This post also assumes that you are already -
NAV 2009 – Report Designer – Introduction to the new environment
Microsoft Dynamics NAV has always had its own report designer. In NAV 2009 it still does, but in addition to this you can also use the Visual Studio (VS) report designer. NAV 2009 – both the classic and the new client – will still run reports designed in NAV’s report designer. So in way nothing