A Better Dynamics CRM E-mail Editor With TinyMCE (updated for IE8 and 9)

When I developed the JavaScript for my A Better Dynamics CRM E-mail Editor With TinyMCE post back in June, I tested it in both Chrome and IE10. Since then I have gotten a few reports of it not working in IE8 or IE9. Initially, I thought there might be a problem with the way the earlier versions of IE were handling the protocol-relative URLs to the TinyMCE CDN script, but it turned out that the script just wasn’t loading properly when the editor popup was initially launched. »

Diesel Xrm Service Wrapper Now on GitHub

Last week I wrote a post called “Introducing the Diesel Xrm Service Wrapper,” in which I presented a generic WCF wrapper for the Dynamics CRM Organization Service. Almost immediately I had several ideas about updates I wanted to make, so I’ve decided to host the project on GitHub. The project GitHub page is here, and you can find the code repository here. »

Introducing the Diesel Xrm Service Wrapper

In this post, I will present a generic Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) wrapper for the Dynamics CRM Organization Service that lets you turn any FetchXML query into a web service interface without needing to write any code at all. I call my solution the Diesel Xrm Service Wrapper after Diesel, my Great Dane. »

A Data Snapshot Framework for Dynamics CRM

Although Dynamics CRM offers several different ways to report on data stored in the system, there is no out-of-the-box mechanism for reporting on how data changes over time. That is to say, while you can easily report on how many active accounts are owned by a particular sales rep today, you can’t report on how the number of active account compares to last week, last month or even just yesterday. »

A Better Dynamics CRM E-mail Editor With Markdown

Last month I wrote a post called A Better Dynamics CRM E-mail Editor With TinyMCE in which I showed how to create a better Dynamics CRM e-mail editing interface using TinyMCE. Since then I have done some work with Markdown, and I decided it would be an interesting exercise to make a Markdown-enabled e-mail editor. »