New version of LinqtoCRM
I haven’t updated the project for a while, but Michael Höhne sent me some fixes that I’ve merged. I’ve also compiled the project with Visual Studio 2008 RTM and run it against CRM 4.0 RC0...
View ArticleLinqtoCRM, now with demo!
Version 0.2.3 is now up and I’ve made a “getting started” video for your amusement. There are now two downloads. The first one is the entire solution for you to hack on, the second is the minimal...
View ArticleMicrosoft CRM 3.0 32 bit to 4.0 64 bit
Last week I helped a client move from CRM 3.0 32 bit to CRM 4.0 64 bit. Note that 3.0 never came in a 64 bit version so the 32->64 bit upgrade has to happen on the 4.0 side. The procedure described...
View ArticleLinqtoCRM 0.2.5 released
A little over a week ago, I got a wonderful email from Mel Gerats. He’s implemented a bunch of new features for LinqtoCRM, including Count, Skip/Take, Contains, EndsWith, StartsWith. There’s also...
View ArticleCRMMetal and LINQtoCRM
As you may know, Microsoft introduced many-to-many relationships in version 4.0 of Dynamics CRM. Unfortunately, querying these relationships is not supported through the general web service entities as...
View ArticleLinqtoCRM 0.3.0 released
There’s a new version of LinqtoCRM out, get it here. Petteri Räty has rewritten the query-generation engine so that arbitrary selectors are supported. He has also squashed some nasty predicate-bugs and...
View ArticleQuerying relationships with LinqtoCRM
I’ve just recorded a web cast demontrating joins with LinqtoCRM. The piece de resistance is a join across a many-to-many relationship with the intermediary class generated by CRMMetal: var res = from u...
View ArticleLinqtoCRM competitor and new version
A few days, a former collegue alerted me to xRM LINQ, a new commercial query provider for Microsoft CRM. I’ve downloaded the trial, of course, and it looks pretty good. xRM LINQ decided not to use...
View ArticleLinqtoCRM and updating entities
There are some pitfalls when retrieving CRM entities with LinqtoCRM and trying to update them through the CRM web service. The most intuitive (but wrong) approach would be this: var res = from c in...
View ArticleLinqtoCRM obsoleted
Shan McArthur put up a notice that the latest version (4.0.12) of the Microsoft CRM SDK includes Linq querying support. The CRM Team have a couple of blog posts describing the new features. I haven’t...
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