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Tag Archives: Internet Explorer

Introduction and Notes about WCF, Silverlight and Creating a Silverlight application that consumes - invokes a WCF service via async (asynchronous) web service call

This post is an introduction and a collection of some useful information, notes and facts about WCF in genreal, Silverlight and running a silverlight web application that uses a WCF service via asynchronous web service call.
- The first fact that you need to know is that:
The only option for web service calling in Silverlight is [...]

Renaming Left Navigation Menu items (leftnav) of an Entity in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4

I will try to make this as simple and straight to the point as possible.
This post is to explain how to to change the name and rename one or more of the left menu items - leftnav - items of an Entity, for example the Account entity or the Contact entity or any other Custom entity. In summary, this [...]

Setting up Microsoft CRM Internet Facing Deployment IFD with Multiple organisations

You can always setup Microsoft Dynamics CRM with Internet Facing deployment IFD either using the IFD tool by Microsoft or using the manual hard coding in the config files. I have recently used the IFD tool to do so and after I managed to get everything sorted, an important question came to mind which is: How [...]

Using the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

If you ever want to know the name of a html element (html element id) you will most probably need Internet Explorer developer toolbar. IE developer Toolbar is a free Microsoft product that you can download from Microsoft’s download website.
Once you download and install the toolbar, you can view it by clicking at view –> [...]

Error with Report Server

We have been recently approached by a client who had a problem with their report server. If you try to access reports from the reports manager, reports run fine and you can view any report fully and in the right format. The problem arrises when a .NET application tries to open these reports, it just [...]