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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 [...]

Configure Microsoft SQL Server to allow remote connection and remote SQL Management Studio access

To get straight to the point. I have been trying to setup Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to allow remote connection and specifically I wanted the SQL server to allow SQL Server Management Studio on a different computer completely outside the network to be able to access this remote SQL Server and manage it fully without [...]

Hiding Left Navigation Menu Items in an Entity Form using Javascript in Microsoft CRM 4

This is just a follow on from my previous post (http://www.mohamedibrahim.net/blog/2009/07/30/renaming-left-menu-items-leftnav-entity-microsoft-dynamics-crm-4/). In this post, I explained how to rename left menu items in an entity form using javascript.
These links are created when a new N:1 relationship is created between two entities. The primary entity in this relationship will get a new left navigation link everytime a [...]

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 [...]

Microsoft CRM 4.0 IFD Internet Facing Deployment (IFD) Internal Network address and subnet mask list of IP addresses.

Hi,
I have been working on setting up a test Microsoft dynamics CRM server on a server at home with Internet facing deployment. I wanted to try to see how CRM hosted will work. I have been through few issues that thankfully I managed to resolve them all. I will write another post specifically focusing on the [...]

SAP and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Integration using SCRIBE

Few months ago, I was asked to research the possibility of integrating two systems for a client using SCRIBE Software specifically. The two systems are Microsoft CRM and SAP. I have done an intensive research in the subject and I have come up with a 9 pages document detailing the answer.
The quick answer is yes. [...]

Microsfoft CRM Error. Can not assign CRM accounts records from one user to another. Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

Yesterday I spent a day at a client site working on various requests and issues. The main issue that took the majority of my time was an issue with their Microsoft CRM 4.0 where some account records are not being re-assigned to a different user. Everytime someone tries to re-assign these accounts, a blank error [...]

MS CRM Key Generator error - Invalid Action - Microsoft CRM 4 Error.

I have just started my Microsoft CRM 4.0 VM, tried to run a .NET console application and I got a full list of errors although the code was working fine the night before! When I tried to open Microsoft CRM 4.0, I got an error “Invalid Action” with the sentence starting with “error in command”. [...]

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 [...]