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So the new versions of my favorite development tool were released this week and I am very excited about the new features

Without doubts the best feature introduced by this version are the CodeLens

CodeLens allows to quickly see the number of references and if you have it integrated with TFS 2013 you can also see the last person who made changes and the number of changes associated to the class or method.

This is a very non-intrusive or distractive way to show helpful information about the code.

Clicking on the references you can navigate quickly to the part of the code that is referencing this class or method

Clicking on the name of the person who made the last change or in the changes number you will easily navigate to the Changeset

Another great feature is the ALT+F12, before VS 2013 the way to navigate to the method definition was by using the F12 key which opened the code on a separate tab making it very hard to follow the code. Now you can use the Peek definition or ALT+F12 to see the class or method defection inside the same tab as follows

I am still learning about the new features of this new version but these 2 new features described above worth moving to 2013 without any doubts.

If you want to start using it you can download the trial versions from here

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads

Enjoy coding!

Microsoft released a new Rollup Update (15). It can be downloaded from

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40346

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

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2843571/

Microsoft released a new Rollup Update (14). It can be downloaded from

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39624

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

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2849744/

I am very happy to share my new book has been announced and it can be pre-ordered from http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011-reporting-business-intelligence/book

This is my 3rd book about Dynamics CRM and in this one I specially focus in Reporting.

What you will learn from this book

• Understand the different report types we can create in Microsoft Dynamics CRM
• Learn basic database concepts like ERD and SQL and Fetch XML languages to create queries on our reports
• Create basic reports with the wizard and Visual Studio
• Build advanced reports with the SQL Report Builder
• Present reports in charts, dashboards and forms
• Integrate reports on CRM entity forms and extending the form's control capabilities
• Incorporate reports in CRM dashboards and understand chart basics to display important information
• Bind CRM data by using early or late binding and SQL reporting services report execution
• Follow the best practices and troubleshooting of different authentication issues

In Detail

All of the data entered into a CRM means nothing if it is unable to report the important information to our managers and executives in such a way that they can easily and quickly get the results they need. A better reporting system would enable them to make the necessary improvements to the processes that any business needs in a dynamic business world. For users and developers wishing to take advantage of using the report capabilities of Dynamics CRM, this is the book for you.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Reporting is a practical and excellent reference guide that provides you with a number of different options you can use to create and empower the Reporting capabilities of Dynamics CRM. This will give you a good grounding in using the reports in your Dynamics CRM 2011 implementations.

This book looks at all the different options we can use to create reports in Dynamics CRM 2011, starting with SQL Reporting Services and custom reports, created in either CRM Report Wizard, SQL Report Builder, or Visual Studio. It will also show other options we can use such as dashboards, charts, and different ways to optimize and automate reports. We will also learn how to build our own reports either using the different wizards for basic reports or using Visual Studio for more complex reports. We will explore the options mobile CRM users have who want to run and see reports on these mobile devices.

Approach

The book is a focused and step-by-step tutorial on Microsoft Dynamics CRM Reporting capabilities. It will enable Dynamics developers to create and manage reports, know what tools to use, how to use them, and where to find the data based on how it's being entered into the system with Dynamics CRM.

Who this book is for

This book is great for users and developers new to the Dynamics CRM Reports and SQL Server Reporting services, and who are looking to get a good grounding in how to use the reporting capabilities of Dynamics CRM 2011. It's assumed that you will have some experience in HTML and JavaScript already to build the advanced reports, but no previous programming experience is required to build and learn how to create some basic to intermediate reports, which will be used during the exercises within this book.

More info and source can be found at http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011-reporting-business-intelligence/book

If you are like me that you have domain administrator rights you will find that you cannot run most of the metro style apps that are available in the Start screen.

You would probably receive the following error message

So the solution is as follows

1. Local Security Policy - Run "secpol.msc" and modify as in screenshot 

 

2. Edit Registry - Run "regedit" and change the value as in screenshot

 

3. Reboot your System and now you can run all metro Apps as Administrator. 

Thanks to Islam Adel to sharing this solution that can be found at http://www.islamadel.com/en/notes/6-computer/29-win8fixadmin.

Within the release of the rollup update 13 a new version of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Report Authoring Extension has been released on 3/27

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Report Authoring Extension is required to author custom Fetch-based reports for Microsoft Dynamics CRM by using Business Intelligence Development Studio or SQL Server Data Tools.

This new version includes an installer for Visual Studio 2010 that is the one that comes with SQL Server 2012

It can be downloaded from

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27823

Within the release of the rollup update 13 a new version of the Microsoft dynamics CRM 2011 SDK has been released on 3/27

It can be downloaded from

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24004

Microsoft released a new Rollup Update (13). It can be downloaded from

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=37133  

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

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2791312  

Microsoft released a new Rollup Update (12). It can be downloaded from

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36229

This version now adds multi browser support for Dynamics CRM web interface

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

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2795627

Want to use TypeScript for your Dynamics CRM 2011 JavaScript web resources check this module http://crm2011typescript.codeplex.com/

To learn more about Type Script click http://www.typescriptlang.org/

To read more about how to work with TypeScript and Dynamics CRM I recommend reading this article

http://crmconsultancy.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/microsoft-typescript/