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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. 

Audit History is an Out Of Box functionality of Microsoft CRM 2011 that is used to track the changes in a whole entity or particular fields on entity. For example you can track that who has changed address field of a contact record, what is old & new value of address & when it has been changed etc. You can see these by going to “Audit History” in the left pane of an entity in which auditing is enabled.

Dynamic Dropdownlist in ASP.NET by a text file  

This blog article is all about relationship behaviour between two MS CRM 2011 entities. We all know that in Dynamic CRM 2011 there are three type of relationship they are 1: N, N: 1 and N: N but little is know about the relationship behaviour that each of these relationship type possesses. There are four relationship behaviour in CRM 2011. The relationship behaviour feature of MS CRM controls the resulting action that will happen if a related entity record is deleted, Assigned, Shared, Unshared, Reparent and Merged. These behaviours can be controlled by going to settings of the relationship. 

Fetch XML is a really handy way of retrieving data from CRM. It is easy to construct complex query and really simple to execute. In this blog article I will explain how you can execute fetch XML query in Dynamic CRM 2011 or CRM online. To start you will first need to download a fetch xml from advanced find and then use the RetrieveMultiple method of the CRM Service to execute the Fetch XML.

First go to Advanced d find and select the entity on which you need to make query

Following is the fetchxml retrieve from Advance Find:

All now that is left is to send a fetch request. This can simply be done by using the following code.

EntityCollection EC = _service.RetrieveMultiple(new FetchExpression(fetchXml));

 

if (EC != null && EC.Entities != null && EC.Entities.Count >= 1)

{

     foreach (Entity E in EC.Entities)

     {

         Guid entityId = E.Id;

     }

}

Above code shows how RetrieveMultiple method is used to retrieve EntityCollection from fetchxml.
Hope this helps. Happy Coding !!

Step  1->Open Visual Studio 2010/2008 and open Project, give the name of project and click OK like this Step 2->Put Label and put this code in  .cs file of project public Form1()         {                        InitializeComponent();             System.Windows.Forms.Timer MyTimer = new System.Windows.Forms.Timer();             MyTimer.Interval = (1 * 60 * 1000); // 1 mins             MyTimer.Tick += new EventHandler(MyTimer_Tick);             MyTimer.Start();         } And generate event for MyTimer_Tick and paste this code ...

                                              Adrotator in ASP.NET   By the AdRotator   control you can change the look of  your home page . The control is very simple and the wonderful thing is that you  don’t need to write the code in code behind file . A Xml file is needed  for the reference of images which are to be displayed on the home page or anywhere else one more beneficial thing is that you can hyperlink to each image  so a new window is opened  and you can acquire the benefit of advertisement also basically it is meant for the advertisement .Due to the reference of images are written in xml file so it can be easily modified.

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ASP.NET Date Manipulation

Basic idea of this article is to use of SQL server expression to convert  and get date& time fromat.

SQL Server string to date / datetime conversion: 



 String date conversion (Without century (yy)): convert string to datetime
 

  Convert string to date&time

  Day (Mon) types are nondeterministic conversions:
 

  SQL server datetime format (mon dd yyyy hh:mm:ss:mmmAM (or PM))

Date format (ISO) works  international standard