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Category Archives: General Development

Running 64 bit Virtual Machines (VPC) on Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista not on Microsoft Windows Server machines using Oracle virtual box

Most recent and future Microsoft server technologies will be running on 64 bit machines (or 64 bit virtual machines) only and there will be no install for 32 bit operating systems. Microsoft products and technologies such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, Microsoft SharePoint 2010 are already produced for 64 bit operating systems only. If you have a [...]

Converting Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 JavaScript to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Javascript code converter

I have just seen this javascript converter tool and I thought I’ll let everyone know about it as it could be quite beneficial when upgrading Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 including Javascript upgrade and changes. This is the link for the tool. I haven’t tested it thoroughly myself yet, so please [...]

Creating, consuming and using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Service, Using CRM API and CRM SDK to access CRM database via the webservice

   Creating, consuming and using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Service, Using CRM API and CRM SDK to access CRM database via the webservice. Custom .NET code to access CRM, create, update (edit), insert, delete, retrieve (return) and retrievemultiple records for system entities and custom entities using both entity objects and dynamic entities.  This post is a collection of the [...]

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 field level validation using javascript regular expression on client side handling the onChange event to validate and check the value and text of a CRM 4.0 field

Please note that this post is aimed as showing how to use javascript regular expression field level validation in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The post does not focus on the many ways of getting a regular expression. The example regular expression below is used for explanation only. If you want to create validation at field level [...]

Ajax Update progress screen to block access to form during background server side processes

If you are writing an Ajax based .NET web application or web page, there are situations were you might want to block the whole webpage from being accessed while a background or server side process is taking place. So for example if the user clicks submit, you want to make the web page not accessible [...]

Creating and Using Silverlight web.config app settings (Web.config Configuration Applicatioin Settings) or app.config application settings configuration file for Silverlight

Post Summary: This posts explains how to create and use something similar to a silverlight  web.config, App.config and appsettings (or app settings) configuration file for silverlight application. This is based on re-using serviceReference.clientconfig as an appconfig configuration file. The Problem: A) configuration application settings (like the one in web.config, appsettings or app settings application configuration file): This is [...]

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