Problem with JavaScript text editor after installing Roll Up 10 (CRM2011)

I was talking to my friend Eric yesterday and he pointed out a bug introduced in Roll Up 10.  After installing rollup 10, if you open an existing JavaScript webresource or create a new JavaScript webresource using crm text editor, chances are that you will receive the following error message.

If you click on “OK”, it will truncate your JavaScript. The good news that you can still create new webresource or update existing resources using some external text editor and upload that file into your JavaScript webresource.

Thanks.

How to create meaningful device credentials using Device Registration Tool

To create a standalone application ( web application or console application) or generate early bind classes using CrmSvcUtil, we need a connection string to connect to the CRM. The connection strings are different for different deployment types. Here is the link to the MSDN article about CRM connection strings.
To connect to CRMOnline, we need to specify the device credentials as well as LIVE username and password. Here is an example of CRMOnline connection string.
Url=https://contoso.crm.dynamics.com; Username=jsmith@live-int.com; Password=passcode; DeviceID=contoso-ba9f6b7b2e6d; DevicePassword=passcode
The device credentials sit in “C:\Users\username\LiveDeviceID\LiveDeviceID.XML” file.
If the file does not exist then it means your device is not registered. If it does exist then the file contents will look like the following screen.

If you look at username and pwd in the above screen shot, they look like random letters and numbers.
Microsoft provides the “Device Registration Tool” to register the device for CRMOnline. This tool can be found at “\sdk\tools\deviceregistration\bin\Debug.DeviceRegisteration.exe” location.
The DeviceRegistration.exe supports 2 operations.

• Show
• Register

Here is some of the screen shots of “Device Registration Tool” in action.


The second screen shot displays the outcome of register operation. The tool created a device id and device password. As I mentioned earlier in the blog, these credentials are not readable and you can’t really remember them. But we can actually specify the device id and password by passing username and password parameter in the register operation. Have a look at the following screen.
 
That's how you can specify your own device id and device password for device registration. The only thing I can’t work it out is that registration tool adds 11 in front of the specified device id.
Thanks….

Check if the date is a business day in CRM2011

In CRM solutions, some times we need to know that  a date is working business day. For example a company policy can be a complaint must be closed within 5 working days. In this scenario, we need to update the working days on the case entity at the end of every business day. One of the solution to this scenario can be to write a console application and schedule it to run every night and update the working days.
I have written this code to check if current date is a business day. The code is checking if the date is a weekend or a “Business Closure” day defined in CRM. Here is the code. Make the changes according to your requirements.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk;
using Microsoft.Xrm.Client;
using Microsoft.Xrm.Client.Services;
using Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Query;
using Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Messages;

namespace dateCheck
{
    class dateCheck
    {
                
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //Date to be checked 
            DateTime dateBeingTested = DateTime.Now;

             if (IsItWeekend(dateBeingTested) || CheckHolidays(dateBeingTested))
             {
                 Console.WriteLine(dateBeingTested.ToString("d") + " is not working day.");
             }
             else
             {
                 Console.WriteLine(dateBeingTested.ToString("d") + " is a working day.");
             }
        }

        static bool IsItWeekend(DateTime date)
        {
            if ((date.DayOfWeek== DayOfWeek.Saturday) || (date.DayOfWeek==DayOfWeek.Sunday))
            {
                return true;
            }
            return false;          
        }

        static bool CheckHolidays(DateTime date)
        {
            var connection = new CrmConnection("Crm");
            var service = new OrganizationService(connection);

            QueryExpression query = new QueryExpression("calendar");
            query.ColumnSet = new ColumnSet(true);
            ConditionExpression condition = new ConditionExpression();
            condition.AttributeName = "name";
            condition.Operator = ConditionOperator.Equal;
            condition.Values.Add("Business Closure Calendar");
            query.Criteria.Conditions.Add(condition);
            EntityCollection calendars = service.RetrieveMultiple(query);
            EntityCollection calendarrule = calendars[0].GetAttributeValue<EntityCollection>("calendarrules");
            return calendarrule.Entities
            .Where(e => ((DateTime)e["starttime"]).Date == date.Date).Any();

        }
    }
}

To make this code works, we need to define a connection string “Crm” in app.config file. Change the server name and credentials to match your deployment.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
  <connectionStrings>
    <!--<add name="Crm" connectionString="ServiceUri=http://servername/orgname; Domain=domainname; Username=username; Password=password"/>-->
    <add name="Crm" connectionString="ServiceUri=https://orgname.crm5.dynamics.com; Username=username; Password=password; DeviceID=deviceid; DevicePassword=password"/>
  </connectionStrings>
  </configuration>

Happy Programming…Thanks Russel for the code.