At this moment I’m doing some research to embed Power BI embedded within CRM. I can hear many of you think “Why bother dude, just use Power BI in your Enterprise 1 plan”. For large enterprises this is in general financially not a problem. However when you enter the SMB market (and in this market […]
#CRMVisualSchema – part 7: Stuck on a new diagram rendering mode…
The last months I’ve been working on the Entity Relation Diagram Creator plug-in for the XRM ToolBox. At this moment the plug-in is functioning well and some new ideas start to cross my mind. E.g. a much more advanced way of creating an initial layout of the entities within a solution. The entity layouting algorythm has had a couple […]
#CRMVisualSchema – part 3: Getting started with plugin development for XrmToolBox
In the previous article, I managed to cram the visual schema designer functionality into a single dll. So far I have implemented the following functionality: Get a list of solutions from CRM I only get the solutions that are visisble (those are the solutions you normally see within CRM). I’m considering an option to show all […]
#CRMVisualSchema – part 2: Entity schema up-and-running
At this moment I’m making some nice progress on visualizing an entity model. In the comment section of my previous article Stefan (*kudos*) pointed me on some alternatives, some of them depend either on Visual Studio or Microsoft Visio. My goal is to create a plugin for XrmToolbox, that can be used free of charge. What have I realized till sofar: […]
#CRMVisualSchema – part 1: intro
Last summer I was approached by the EMEA recruitment office from Salesforce; if I was interested to join them as a Technical Solution Architect. I was suprised because I didn’t have any experience and no track record in Salesforce. Nevertheless they got my full attention. I made it through all telephonic interviewing rounds (speaking with a variety […]
My thoughts on the performance issue
At this moment we are having a Dynamics CRM online performance issue at one of our clients. In a joint effort with Microsoft we are trying to find the cause of the performance issue. As a backup scenario our client asked us to set up a full blown on-premise environment, which is – as we […]
#Crm2Crm – part 7: Bidirectional replication up-and-running
Welcome back in the final episode in this series of articles on building a replication mechanism within Dynamics CRM. In the previous article I implemented a concept of a message pump. The goal of the message pump is to process the messages created by the actions performed on the source entity which are captured by […]
#Crm2Crm – part 6: The Message Pump
In this series of articles, I’m implementing a proof of concept of a replication mechanism within Dynamics CRM. My intention is not to build an enterprise class replication mechanism (e.g. Scribe, KingswaySoft), instead I want to learn more about the mechanisms involved in replication. The previous article was a technical necessity as I needed to find […]
#Crm2Crm – part4: First steps
For the first time in weeks I’ve been able to work on the replication concept. As this excersize is intended to be a proof of concept, I decided to start with a small setup. In order to replicate the data you need to have an entity in which the actual data is stored. In my […]
#Crm2Crm – part 3: Replication basics 2
Last time I described the concept of a simple one way replication pattern. In this pattern each time an entity record is added, modified or deleted a message is written in a message entity. The message pump will process the messages within the message entity in the order they arrived in the message entity (First […]