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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 New Features

By : Jim Wang, Darren Liu
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 New Features

By: Jim Wang, Darren Liu

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 offers exciting new features that enable you to build and maintain a robust customer relationship management system in your organisation.This book is your one stop resource to get to grips with all the new features of Dynamics CRM 2011. To make learning fun and engaging, we will build an Airline Compensation Management (ACM) system using Dynamics CRM 2011.The book starts by setting up the development environment for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. We will then build a structural architecture for the ACM system and configure it in Dynamics CRM 2011. While doing this, we will learn about the new customization features offered by Dynamics CRM 2011.We will then move on to Data Importing and will cover the Import Data Wizard tool, as well as the Import file/data web service which provides additional capabilities that are not available in the Import Data Wizard.We will use client-side programming to perform data validation, automation, and process enhancement and learn powerful event driven server-side programming methods: Plug-Ins and Processes (Formerly Workflows).The book then steers you towards SharePoint integration, Charts and Dashboards, Customizing the Ribbon and Sitemap, and extending Dynamics CRM 2011 in the cloud. Finally we will package the ACM solution and learn how to deploy it.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 New Features
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Client-Side Programming

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 has changed the client-side programming model. It introduces a new object model for programming, and adds some new capabilities for showing and hiding user interface elements, supporting multiple forms per entity, and provides new controls for attributes. It also introduces a new file depository called Web Resources. Web Resources changes the way that we associate events to our forms and attributes. In addition to the SOAP end-point in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, Microsoft CRM 2011 introduces a new architectural style in which every resource is addressed by using a unique URI. This is called REST. In this chapter, we are going to give you an overview of the new client-side programming features that have been added to the product. We are going to cover the following topics:

  • What is new in CRM 2011?

  • The Xrm.Page Namespace

  • SOAP and REST Endpoint

  • Advanced Client-Side Programming