To create a custom field using emojis to simulate a rating/score field, you can do it using the following site that lists the emojis available:

https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

So, in your solution entity create a new Option Set Field, copy the emoji and paste it in the items like this:

 

Add it in the entity form and tried it:

 

You can add it the Grid too!

Enjoy it!
 

Microsoft has released a new version of Dynamics CRM online called Dynamics 365 v 9.0

You can try it now by clicking on this link

https://portal.office.com/partner/partnersignup.aspx?type=Trial&id=2781de52-fe91-41de-b3f5-46e832b092cb&msppid=585256

The new Dynamics 365 has new great features and a new redesigned user interface which server performance has been improved like never before. Some of the new features are the addition of virtual entities, multiple option sets, auto numeric fields, new unified interface.

Previous version of Dynamics CRM (2011, 2013 and 2015) used to have a class called CachedOrganizationService, that was part of the Microsoft.Xrm.Client.dll Assembly. The new SDK for 2016 and Dynamics 365 doesn't come with that assembly anymore and the connection classes has been moved to the Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.Connector.dll assembly. However, this class doesn't come with the CachedOrganizationService, if you had an application that used that class and you want to upgrade the code to work with the latest SDK 2016 Dynamics 365 assemblies you will need to manage the caching manually, here is a sample way you can use to improve the queries performance executed by the RetrieveMultiple method of the IOrganizationService interface that is part of the Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk

private MemoryCache _objectCache = null;
public EntityCollection RetrieveMultipleCached(Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Query.QueryExpression myQueryExpression)
{
    EntityCollection entityCol = null;
    ObjectCache cache = MemoryCache.Default;
    if (cache.Contains(myQueryExpression.Serialize()))
    {
        entityCol = (EntityCollection)cache[myQueryExpression.Serialize()];
    }
    else
    {
        Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.Connector.CrmServiceClient conn = new
Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.Connector.CrmServiceClient(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["Xrm"].ConnectionString);
        crmService = (IOrganizationService)conn.OrganizationServiceProxy;
        entityCol = crmService.RetrieveMultiple(myQueryExpression);
        cache.Add(myQueryExpression.Serialize(), entityCol, DateTime.Now.AddDays(30));
    }
    return entityCol;
}

You need to be very careful when you use this method as in the case the data changes frequently this way is not recommended, in case you know something changes in the entity data you can invalidate the cache by using a plugin.

To invalidate the cache you will need to manually remove the items as follows

foreach (var element in MemoryCache.Default)
{
MemoryCache.Default.Remove(element.Key);
}

Other recommendations include making the connection object static so you don't need to create the CrmServiceClient on every request.

Enjoy!

If you try to schedule a Report in Dynamics CRM 2015 that uses the FetchXML data source type, this is for example any report you can create using the Report Wizard you will notice there are no Report Snapshots created ever.


 

Looking at the Reporting Services logs located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS12.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\LogFiles I found the following exception

processing!WindowsService_0!1924!01/06/2016-15:40:35:: e ERROR: Failed to load expression host assembly. Details: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Crm.Reporting.RdlHelper, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)
System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Crm.Reporting.RdlHelper, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)
File name: 'Microsoft.Crm.Reporting.RdlHelper, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'
at System.Reflection.Assembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, Assembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forIntrospection)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(AssemblyName assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.InternalLoad(String assemblyString, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean forIntrospection)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.Load(String assemblyString)
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.RdlExpressions.ReportRuntime.ExpressionHostLoader.<>c__DisplayClass27.<LoadExprHostIntoCurrentAppDomain>b__25()
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RevertImpersonationContext.<>c__DisplayClass4.<RunFromRestrictedCasContext>b__3(Object state)
at System.Security.SecurityContext.runTryCode(Object userData)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData)
at System.Security.SecurityContext.Run(SecurityContext securityContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.RevertImpersonationContext.RunFromRestrictedCasContext(ContextBody callback)
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.RdlExpressions.ReportRuntime.ExpressionHostLoader.LoadExprHostIntoCurrentAppDomain(Byte[] exprHostBytes, String exprHostAssemblyName, Evidence evidence, Boolean includeParameters, Boolean parametersOnly, OnDemandObjectModel objectModel, List`1 codeModules)
at Microsoft.ReportingServices.RdlExpressions.ReportRuntime.LoadCompiledCode(IExpressionHostAssemblyHolder expressionHostAssemblyHolder, Boolean includeParameters, Boolean parametersOnly, ObjectModelImpl reportObjectModel, ReportRuntimeSetup runtimeSetup)

WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].

The Solution

Edit the ReportingServicesService.exe.config file that is located in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS12.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\ReportServer\bin folder

And add the following lines right before the closing tag </assemblyBinding>

<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.Crm.Reporting.RdlHelper" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="5.0.0.0" newVersion="7.0.0.0" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="6.0.0.0" newVersion="7.0.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>

 The file should look as follows where the new lines added are highlighted in yellow

<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
    ….
    ….
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.SqlServer.Types" publicKeyToken="89845dcd8080cc91" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="10.0.0.0" newVersion="12.0.0.0" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="11.0.0.0" newVersion="12.0.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>

<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.Crm.Reporting.RdlHelper" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="5.0.0.0" newVersion="7.0.0.0" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="6.0.0.0" newVersion="7.0.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>

</assemblyBinding>
<gcServer enabled="true" />
</runtime>
<startup>
<supportedRuntime version="v2.0.50727"/>
</startup>
</configuration>

Save the file

Restart the Reporting Services

That's it, that should fix the problem

Yes, for limited period of time you can get my book Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Reporting at a lower price than a Big Mac.

Notice that even the book was written for the 2011 version of Dynamics CRM, the next versions 2013/2015 and also 2016 had made no changes to the reporting content that was written on that book, so most of the content of the book still applies to all versions of CRM since 2011 to 2016.

This is your time to order https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011-reporting

CRM 2016 on-premises is now available for download for MSDN subscribers

Try CRM 2016 Online for 30 days using the following link

https://portal.office.com/partner/partnersignup.aspx?type=Trial&id=32fe301a-b691-4bbb-b30b-6343848d0ffc&msppid=585256

You can download the CRM 2016 SDK from this link

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50032

To read more about the new features you can read this post

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crm/archive/2015/12/09/just-released-documentation-for-the-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2016-products-wave.aspx

News about the CRM 2016 client for outlook can be read on this post

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crm/archive/2015/12/10/the-new-light-weight-crm-app-for-outlook.aspx

Read more about the new Knowledge Management capabilities

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crm/archive/2015/12/07/auto-publication-and-expiration-of-knowledge-articles.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crm/archive/2015/12/03/knowledge-article-lifecycle-an-introduction.aspx

I could not think another best way to teach my kids to code in a way they would not feel boring in the way to learn.

The following page https://code.org/mc will teach them with their favorite game Minecraft the basics of code programing.

I hope this initiative helps to grow our great community of software developers in a world full of computers and devices waiting for us to tell them what to do.

Happy kids coding!

​When I tried to update my Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 (DB 7.0.03543) to the 0.1 version (DB 7.0.1.129) it came with this error at the DB update:



Info| Database update install failed for orgId = xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx. Continuing with other orgs. Exception: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The current transaction cannot be committed and cannot support operations that write to the log file. Roll back the transaction. Uncommittable transaction is detected at the end of the batch. The transaction is rolled back. at Microsoft.Crm.Metadata.IndexAndConstraintManagementService.RecreateIndexesInternal(Dictionary`2 indexesToRecreate, IIndexMetadataProvider metadata, ISqlExecutionContext sqlContext) at Microsoft.Crm.Metadata.IndexAndConstraintManagementService.RecreateIndexes(IIndexMetadataProvider metadata, ISqlExecutionContext sqlContext, Func`2 recreateIndex) at Microsoft.Crm.Setup.IndexAndConstraintUpgradeService.RestoreIndexesAndConstraintsInternal(IIndexMetadataProvider metadata, ISqlExecutionContext sqlContext, Func`2 recreateIndex) at Microsoft.Crm.Setup.MetadataPatchService.ProcessIndexDiffs(IIndexDiffManager indexDiffManager, ISqlExecutionContext context, HashSet`1 newEntities) at Microsoft.Crm.Setup.MetadataPatchService.ProcessDiffSet(MetadataPatchDiffSet diffSet, Int32 lcid, ExecutionContext context) at Microsoft.Crm.Setup.MetadataPatchService.ProcessMetadataDiffFile(String targetVersion, ExecutionContext context) at Microsoft.Crm.Setup.DiffBuilder.UpdateMetadata(String targetVersion) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor) at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.UnsafeInvokeInternal(Object obj, Object[] parameters, Object[] arguments) at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture) at System.RuntimeType.InvokeMember(String name, BindingFlags bindingFlags, Binder binder, Object target, Object[] providedArgs, ParameterModifier[] modifiers, CultureInfo culture, String[] namedParams) at Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Database.DllMethodAction.Execute(Guid organizationId) at Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Database.DatabaseInstaller.ExecuteReleases(ReleaseInfo releaseInfo, Boolean isInstall) at Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Database.DatabaseInstaller.Install(Int32 languageCode, String configurationFilePath, Boolean upgradeDatabase, Boolean isInstall)

The solution

1. Make a backup of the file MetadataDiffs.xml from “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM\Setup\Serviceability\Latest\Actions_Org\Install”
2. Open the file MetadataDiffs.xml from “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM\Setup\Serviceability\Latest\Actions_Org\Install”
3. Remove the entry about the index “cndx_BusinessDataLocalizedLabel”. This is found at the very end of the file:

<index name="cndx_BusinessDataLocalizedLabel">
     <entityid>4ba1569e-3c9c-4d9f-99ea-b61fb08d7f97</entityid>
     <isclustered>1</isclustered>
     <isunique>1</isunique>
     <indextype>6</indextype>
     <isprimarykey>0</isprimarykey>
     <attributes>
          <attribute attributeid="d88e1df3-b5b3-42f3-9ffa-007f22951dd4" issystemmanaged="1" order="0" />
          <attribute attributeid="bb23d3c8-8d18-40d3-9519-66101a8cae34" issystemmanaged="1" order="1"/>
          <attribute attributeid="976e1053-5faa-4c3f-be6e-669acfec9d5a" issystemmanaged="1" order="2" />
          <attribute attributeid="e81341c4-4d4a-4977-98eb-6597fcde2cc4" issystemmanaged="1" order="3" />
     </attributes>
</index>


4.Close Deployment Manager
5. Start Deployment Manager
6. Start the organization update from Deployment manager.
7. Run the following query on the organization DB to manually recreate the index.

IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.indexes WHERE name = 'cndx_BusinessDataLocalizedLabel' AND OBJECT_NAME(object_id) = 'BusinessDataLocalizedLabelBase') DROP INDEX [cndx_BusinessDataLocalizedLabel] ON [BusinessDataLocalizedLabelBase];
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.indexes WHERE NAME = 'cndx_BusinessDataLocalizedLabel' AND OBJECT_NAME(object_id) = 'BusinessDataLocalizedLabelBase')
BEGIN TRY
CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX [cndx_BusinessDataLocalizedLabel] ON [BusinessDataLocalizedLabelBase]([ObjectId] ASC, [ObjectIdTypeCode] ASC, [ObjectColumnNumber] ASC, [LanguageId] ASC) WITH (FILLFACTOR = 80, MAXDOP = 4, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = ON, ONLINE = ON)
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX [cndx_BusinessDataLocalizedLabel] ON [BusinessDataLocalizedLabelBase]([ObjectId] ASC, [ObjectIdTypeCode] ASC, [ObjectColumnNumber] ASC, [LanguageId] ASC) WITH (FILLFACTOR = 80, MAXDOP = 4, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = ON)
END CATCH

8. Restore the file MetadataDiffs.xml to its original state using the backup taken at step 1.
And with this the CRM 2015 version will be 7.0.1.129.

Original source:

http://www.vogelgesang-consulting.de/content/update-01-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2015

Enjoy it!

Several times you will want to know what version of rollup update you have installed in your CRM 4.0, CRM 2011, 2013 or 2015.

This blog has the right information and updated with all the most updated rollup versions available ever!

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crminthefield/archive/2012/01/12/microsoft-dynamics-crm-4-0-and-2011-update-rollup-release-dates-build-numbers-and-collateral.aspx

Microsoft released a new Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Service Pack 1, it can be downloaded from

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45518

To see more details about what this rollup update covers click on this link

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2963850/