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CRM Entity Relationship Many to Many (N:N)

There are two ways of getting the related entity details in many to many relationship in CRM 4.0 One way is to use RetrieveMultipleRequest function from the SDK: For example, if we have a Loan custom entity and we want to return sets of borrowers (contacts): --- Second way is to use Fetch function to return the XML of the related entities: James Downey created a nice little program FetchXMLBuilder to help you build the fetch query. --- Just for completion, below is the CRMServiceWrapper constructor that I use: Hope this helps ^_^

Valentine Piano Song

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New Song that I created to share my Valentine Day =)

CRM Plugin - Parent and Child Pipeline

This concept tends to confuse people often - and I was no exception. I came across this problem when trying to create custom auto-numbering for one of my projects. Creating auto-number for Opportunity is easy. This is because the user creates opportunity straight from the home screen - thus the plugin runs on parent pipeline. However, it's a different story if you are dealing with Quote entity. Quote can be created in 2 ways, through the home screen OR the opportunity screen. If you create it from the latter, it will run on the child pipeline and you will find that your plugin will not work. Registering it as a child pipeline is easy, but CRM makes it harder since you can't use ICRMService. Instead, you have to create CRMService manually by using this piece of code: Not only that, with the child plugin you can't use Query expression to fetch other entities in your code unless you register it as ASYNCHRONOUS plugin. Mark Kovalcson in his blog found out that: A C

CRM Service Extensions and Dynamic Entity Extensions helper

Useful extension methods for Dynamics CRM 4.0 : My ex-colleague wrote this I believe - visit his blog for more detail: http://loosechainsaw.com CRM Service Dynamic Entity