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Recently in my current project as per requirement of client. I had to Format Microsoft JSON date.

I thought of writing this function for implementing Pre-Filter on Lookup field.

Recently in my current project there were a 'guid' field as per requirement of client. I had to generate the guid in that field.

Recently in my current project there were multiple date fields validation as per requirement of client. I had to validate them under some given conditions.

Sometimes we have situations where we have to fill only alphanumeric value in the given field (like: password,user id etc). Alphanumeric value is a combination of alphabets and numeric value.

Sometimes we need to compare two dates as start date and end date where we need that end date must be greater than start date . If we use date format in mm/dd/yyyy then compare validator works well but if we use date picker using jquery or the date in dd/mm/yyyy format by any other way then compare validator does not work because it recognizes only dd/mm/yyyy format. To over come this problem a custom date compare validator should be used. Following is a simple application where a custom compare validator has been used .

By this simple  piece of java script code you can scroll a message on the webpage .The message is called on the body load of the page .

By this article I want to just describe the utility of check box and compare to the radio buttons . In the radio button list user is restricted to select at least one selection user can not escape the choice but in the check box list user is not restricted to select a choice even he can go for no choice also .

By this simple piece of java script code you can say good morning , good evening ,……. To the logged in user . The logic is quite simple the web page takes the system time and according to the time part the messages  are created and displayed so  messages are displayed regardless of the country time.

If you are looking to get the Entity Type Code or ETC (as it is generally known as) dynamically for any entity name in your web resource in MS CRM, you should use the MetaData service to do so. The MetaData service in MS CRM 2011 will retrieve all the Meta information about an entity. This information includes the display name of the entity, the logical name of the entity and all other information about its relationship status etc. However the information that we are interested in here is the "ObjectTypeCode". 

How to build your MetaData service? For building a MetaData service you can use sample code provided in the CRM SDK itself. (samplecode\js\soapforjscript\soapforjscript\scripts). The name of the file is sdk.metadata.js.
This javascript file has a function by name RetrieveAllEntitiesAsync. This function fetches all the entities with with their MetaData information. On success this function returns you entityMetadataCollection. Now all you need to do is to loop over entities and get the Object Type Code. Please follow the code below to get the Object Type Code or ETC.


This is a supported way of getting etc or ObjectTypeCode of an entity. 
Hope this helps.