New CRM 2015 exams available: MB2-707 Customization & Configuration and MB2-706 Online Deployment

The following CRM 2015 exams are now available: MB2-706: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Deployment MB2-707: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customization and Configuration The exams can be already scheduled and until 31 May 2015 there is also the Second Shot offer, meaning that you can retake the exam for free if you didn't pass the first time. All the Dynamics CRM 2015 exams are listed here: Dynamics CRM 2015 Certifications ...

Get the Id of records created using Early Bound OrganizationServiceContext

The other day my friend Raj (@RajYRaman) retweeted a post from Dynamics CRM PFE Team about the best practice to let CRM to choose the Guid of new records instead of using Guid.NewGuid(): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crminthefield/archive/2015/01/19/the-dangers-of-guid-newguid.aspx With IOrganizationService object is very easy to get the Id of the new record, because it's the value returned by the Create method independently if late bound or early bound is used: IOrganizationService service = new OrganizationService(crmConnection); // late bound Entity...

Retrieve the Saved Views (UserQuery) of all CRM users

Dynamics CRM allows the users to create personal views (using Advanced Find) and eventually share them with other users. The entity used to store these views is called UserQuery and the main properties are: Name: Name given to the saved view FetchXml: String that specifies the query in Fetch XML language OwnerId: Unique identifier of the user or team who owns the saved view In order to retrieve the saved views we can use FetchXml or a QueryExpression, but the result will always contain only the saved views of the user executing the query. Consider...

I am a Microsoft Dynamics CRM MVP!

Yesterday (1 January 2015) I received the Microsoft MVP Award for my contributions to the Dynamics CRM Community. It is a great honor for me to be part of the MVP family. https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/mvp/Guido%20Preite-5001218 I work with Dynamics CRM since 2010 but my online presence started 2 years ago. The reason to join several sites at the time was a bit selfish: I was in a new country, the first Dynamics CRM project at my new job was for the most part server side related and I was worried to forget the client side customizations (the big...