Customization made easy with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer Toolkit
CRM 4.0, Customizations, Developer, Downloads April 14th, 2009
The MS CRM Team Blog announced the release of a new Visual Studio plug-in that will ease your customization and development tasks in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. After the installation steps, start up Visual Studio 2008 and you’ll see several exciting new tools available.
The CRM Explorer allows you to view, create, modify and publish CRM entities and business units, all from within Visual Studio. - Ability to generate Wrapper Classes on those entities to facilitate software customization.
- Generate Plug-In Code to speed up your deployments.
- Register your customizations and deploy them across multiple servers.
Be sure to carefully read the installation instructions on the documentation first. This toolkit is available for free! Download at the below link.
MSDN: The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer Toolkit [Installer and Documentation]- Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer Toolkit: discussion thread
Tags: customization, Developer, download, entities, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Visual Studio
For CRM 4.0 developer newbies: the Developer Ramp-up Kit [link]
CRM 4.0, Customizations, Developer, Links July 10th, 2008
If the software development experience with Dynamics CRM 4.0 had to be summarized with one word, it would have to be flexibility. Let’s say there’s some type of functionality that Dynamics CRM can’t immediately address from within the application; there’s a good chance that there are development tools ready to make CRM work for your business, not the other way around.
Enter the Developer Ramp-up Kit for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. It’s a nice collection of videos, labs and other resources to get you up and running with the various tools available in CRM 4.0. To get the most out of the kit you’ll need some familiarity with the following:
- .NET Framework
- Microsoft Visual C#
- Javascript
- Microsoft SQL Server
- General Web development
For those looking to get familiar with Dynamics CRM’s extensibility, this is a one-stop shop for all the tools you need to get started.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc720132.aspx
To see the full list of contents in this kit, click on the below link.
Tags: CRM 4.0, Developer, development, SDK, Software
Latest CRM 4.0 Software Development Kit released (v4.0.4)
Customizations, Developer, Links April 4th, 2008
You can download the latest SDK from the Microsoft website below.
Microsoft Downloads: CRM 4.0 SDK (4.04)
Size: 14.MB
Latest Additions and Updates
Offline Plug-in Security
New information about the additional security restriction for an offline plug-in, which requires that a registry key named after the public key token of the plug-in assembly be added to the system registry. The online/offline plug-in sample code and walkthrough was updated too.
Plug-in Constructor
Added a topic explaining how to write a constructor for a plug-in that accepts parameters. These strings can be used to pass information to the plug-in at run time.
Privileges by Message
The appendix showing the required privileges for each message has been updated. There are a few outstanding messages that will be completed in the next SDK release.
Outlook Sample Code and Programming Reference
The reference topics for the Microsoft.Crm.Outlook.Sdk assembly have been completed. Added new sample code that interacts with Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Microsoft Office Outlook using this assembly.
Using the Discovery Service in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live
Added a topic to show how to get the Web reference for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live.
SiteMap Sample Code
Added step-by-step instructions for how to change the label text in the navigation pane.
Scripting Sample Code
Added a new scripting sample that allows you to control which users can update data in a field.
Report Writers Guide
Added a new topics on linking reports, managing reports offline and new information about publishing reports.
Other Sample Code
- How to Send a Bulk E-mail and Monitor the System Job
- How to Start an Asynchronous Bulk Delete Job and Review Results
- Using the BackgroundSendEmail Message
- Using the QualifyMembersList Message
Tags: Customizations, Developer, download, SDK
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