Dynamics CRM Tools

Hi CRM community! Last Friday and today, with my colleague Nicolas, we released a new version of CrmDiagTool 2011. This version has not the capability to connect to remove CRM servers to manage Trace and DevErrors flag. This should save you time, removing the need to connect with a remote desktop to CRM servers… This feature is not available for the Troubleshooting report. If you missed the previous update, you can now save your trace profile to reuse it quickly. Enjoy! (on codeplex , as usual)

Hi, Today, I released a little tool to ease the import of solution in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. It displays a simple UI where you can : change import settings Drag & drop a solution file (Zip) Define a path containing the extraction of a solution file I hope this will help you a bit... As usual, the tool is on CodePlex Enjoy!

Hi CRM community! After having migrated the original CrmDiagTool 4 to Dynamics CRM 2011 and having recieved a lot of comments regarding new features, download location, etc. I felt that it was a good idea to make this tool public. To avoid publishing "secret parts of code" from the original tool, I wrote new classes to have a fresh new project. This new project is opened to all CRM developers who would like to improve the CrmDiagTool. So, the project is available on CodePlex What else could I say? I hope many of you will have good ideas and time to spend on this project to make the ultimate diagnostic tool for our favorite CRM software!

Today, I have updated all my tools for CRM 2011 in order to add links to some CodePlex pages related to the tools. It will allow you to rate, comment and sumbit bugs more easly, simply by clicking on the corresponding buttons. I also added a link to my PayPal account, if some of you want to support my work by making a donation. You will also notice a new icon… I really wish you will review my tools to make them more visible to the community, wether you like them or not. Thanks to all of you for taking time for these reviews!

One of my fellow MVP asked me for the possibility to display if an attribute is displayed on at least one entity form. This will ease the decision to make an attribute valid for advanced find. I thought it was difficult because of the need to export a solution to get the xml of an entity forms. But it can be achieved a lot more easily! Entity forms, in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, are just like any other entity, so you can simply retrieve the forms with a simple QueryExpression (or QueryByAttribute, in my case). The code sample: QueryByAttribute qba = new QueryByAttribute( "systemform" ); qba.Attributes.AddRange( "objecttypecode" , "type" ); qba.Values.AddRange(entityLogicalName, 2); qba.ColumnSet = new ColumnSet( true ); EntityCollection ec = oService.RetrieveMultiple(qba); So, this new version is much more useful since you can see easily if an attribute is used on a form, and you can also check only attributes used in at least one form by pressing ...

Hi, Many of you reported errors when connection to there IFD deployments with customized Discovery Service Url (different from disco.servername.domain.extension). I just updated all my tools to support these customized url. Enjoy them! NB: RibbonEditor has not been updated right now.

Two weeks ago, one of my customer ask for some new entities in its CRM application. This was too easy… Well, my customer has also plenty of security roles and I had to update each of them regarding this new entity… boring! So, you know what? I wrote a tool to update multiple roles in a single operation: The role updater. How it works: Just click on “Load Roles and privileges” to display all master roles and list of all privileges. Check the roles that need to be updated Check the privileges to add or remove: If privilege addition, select the access level associated with the checked privileges. Then click on button “Add Privilege(s)” If privilege removal, just click on button “Remove Privilege(s)” As usual, the tool is available on codeplex Do not hesitate to comment, review and track issue on codeplex