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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Application Design

By : Mahender Pal
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Application Design

By: Mahender Pal

Overview of this book

<p>Businesses can have their developers build complete apps or plug-ins and interfaces to suit their business needs. With the application of MS CRM, administrators can alter the content, layout, and business logic for each business use case. Businesses can choose to run Dynamics CRM on their own internal server or to link to web-hosted installations. This book is an enhanced guide that covers all the new features released with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015. Coming straight off the shelf with a whole new frontier of updated business rules, process enhancements, SDK methods, and other enhancements, this book is a complete guide for all your Dynamics CRM questions.</p> <p>Starting off, this book will introduce you to the deployment options such as online and on-premise, and the software and hardware requirements as CRM customization. It will also teach you how to develop a sample application.</p> <p>Going deeper, this book teaches you about the new enhancements in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 such as business process, new client-side scripting, mobile application, and actions enhancements. You will quickly get up and running with plugin development and project tracking concepts with the help of sample applications.</p> <p>The book concludes with how Microsoft Dynamics CRM extends its mobile capabilities and bring more feature-rich experience to the app users.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Application Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Knowing about CRM assemblies


CRM SDK ships with different assemblies under a bin folder that we can use to write CRM application extensions. We can utilize them to interact with CRM metadata and organization data. The following table provides details about the most common CRM assemblies:

Name

Details

Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Deployment

This assembly is used to work with CRM organizations. We can create, update, and delete organizations via these assembly methods.

Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk

This is a very important assembly as it contains the core methods and their details; this is a must-have assembly for every CRM extension. This assembly contains different namespaces for different functionality—for example, query, which contains different classes to query CRM DB; metadata, which helps us to interact with metadata of CRM applications; discovery, which helps us to interact with discovery services (we will be discussing discovery services in a later topic); and messages, which provides classes...