by Gustaf Westerlund | Nov 30, 2007
SOAP is a great thing, not only does it get you clean, but it is also the foundation for most modern webservice communication. It is supposed to be platform independent.
A good thought but does, however, seem to have it’s limitation. To be able to thoroughly understand the communication between the client and webservice a good program is needed that can help you study how the web service works and how the SOAP-messages are sent and received.
When working in a .NET environment, a .NET based client is very advantageous and a business partner of mine at the company Lemontree, Oskar Mattsson, suggested a very good application. I havn’t had time to try it out fully yet, but it is also a GotDotNet-project so you can also read the code of how it is doing it’s calls.
The name of the program is WebServiceStudio 2.0 and you can download it here:
here
Gustaf Westerlund
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Consultant
WM-Data/Logica CMG
www.logicacmg.com
by Gustaf Westerlund | Nov 29, 2007
My colleague Daniel Westerblom at WM-Data asked my a question concerning the fake lookups that I have referenced bellow and that I know are commonly used by many partners. The question was if these customizations are supported.
When I was at convergence I asked this explicit question to, I think it was, Clint Warriner (CRM Escalation Engineer at Microsoft Support) and he gave me confirmation on what I had suspected, that these customizations are not supported. They fall under the last point concerning unsupported customizations described in the SDK:
“The use of custom HttpModules to inject HTML/DHTML into the Microsoft CRM Forms.”
Since the HTML DOM is modified, this is not supported.
The reason for this is most probably that Microsoft might choose to change this in future releases of CRM (for instance CRM 4.0) and might also have internal scripting references to objects they expect to be there according to the standard HTML DOM.
I don’t know if these fake lookups will upgrade from CRM 3.0 to 4.0 without problems. If you have any experience of it, please let me know.
If you have any comments on this subject, please feel free to comment bellow. I always publish comments that concern the subject and are not directly offensive. (I have activeted moderation on comments just to avoid comment spamming).
Gustaf Westerlund
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Consultant
WM-Data/Logica CMG
www.logicacmg.com
by Gustaf Westerlund | Nov 29, 2007
Usually I develop on a CRM server but sometimes, when a larger piece of CRM-independent part needs to be developed, I develop on my local machine.
Presently I am working in an integration project with an integration engine and needed to consume one of it’s webservices. I did so and I added some code to handle it (intellisense working fine) but when I tried to run it, it crashed on the constructor or the service class with the following error:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name gvy6umsk.dll, or one
of its dependencies, was not found.
There was also a reference to the WindowsTemp-directory. The filename is obviously some temporary filename for the proxy-object.
After checking the web a bit, I found the error to be caused by the fact that the user running the software, did not have read/write access to the c:windowstemp directory. I fixed it and the program ran like it should!
So, if you are in the same situation, just fix the right for the windowstemp directory and you should be fine.
Gustaf Westerlund
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Consultant
WM-Data/Logica CMG
www.logicacmg.com
by Gustaf Westerlund | Nov 23, 2007
Michael Höhne of Germany is a very resourceful CRM MVP and has just published a great posting on how to, in a simple and good manner create include files for javascript in a supported way. So, with great applause from me and hopefully the rest of the CRM community, give it up for Michael! Here is the link:
http://www.stunnware.com/crm2/topic.aspx?id=JS18
Gustaf Westerlund
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Consultant
WM-Data/Logica CMG
www.logicacmg.com
by Gustaf Westerlund | Nov 23, 2007
I have previously blogged on the licensing issues of Microsoft CRM and I am still waiting for an answer from the Microsoft representatives in Sweden who have forwarded the question. As soon as I get an answer, I will let you know.
I have also been involved in some discussions concerning what the specifics of the external connection licese are. The following URL describes the details of this for CRM (and also other products). Please have a look:
http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/userights/ProductPage.aspx?pid=161
Gustaf Westerlund
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Consultant
WM-Data/Logica CMG
www.logicacmg.com
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