Phil Edry’s Dynamics CRM Blog

Here’s yet another link to a post I wrote for Altriva Solutions’ blog. Intro:

Here’s a quick gotcha I saw on the CRM Forums. When configuring the CRM Client for Outlook, you enter http://servername:port/ORGNAME in the Internet address field and you get a cryptic error stating “Mandatory updates for Microsoft Dynamics CRM could not be applied successfully. Try running the application again.”

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A quick lunch break “gotcha” post before I forget:

Have you ever tried to create a new instance of a crm entity via the SDK only to find that none of your custom attributes (or custom entities for that matter) are showing up in your intellisense? What’s worse, you get a compiler error when try to build because your “new_” prefixed attribute isn’t a recognized member of the class (something like: ’<CrmSdk>.<entity>’ does not contain a definition for ‘new_<custom_attribute>’)?

Well, if you added the web reference to the SDK before you added/published your customizations in CRM, you’ll need to “Update Web References” in Visual Studio before it will compile.

To do this:

1. Go to the Solution Explorer in Visual Studio and expand your project.
2. Right-click your “App_WebReferences” or your specific web reference to the CRM SDK and select “Update Web References.”

 -p