Category: C#

Recover CRM Encryption Symmetric Key

Sometimes, after restoring a CRM On-Premises organization (from a database backup), you end up with the Data Encryption inactive (Settings > Data Management > Data Encryption) and that might be a headache for future development on the restored organization (e.g. custom plugins), especially if the original organization Encryption Key cannot be shown as below (Show… Continue reading Recover CRM Encryption Symmetric Key

9 years of Biz-Forward

We are celebrating 9 years of Biz-Forward. Thank you for supporting us and being by our side with every single post! Happy birthday, Biz-Forward.com | Moving Business Forward Cornel

Privileges by Entity (CRM 2015)

Sometimes, you need to programmatically check a certain privilege on an entity, for business purposes. If you played with user roles, you noticed that all the user roles defined on the main business unit are inherited on the child business units and cannot be altered at child business unit level. The approach below handles this… Continue reading Privileges by Entity (CRM 2015)

WCF Service Bindings – web.config

When creating a web service, the following configured bindings should be taken into consideration, based on the endpoint you are using (soap, rest etc.), to avoid large parameter structures not being processed or timeout issues: Also, the following runtime tag should look like this: Another best practice to avoid potential “System.InvalidOperationException: The JSON request was too large… Continue reading WCF Service Bindings – web.config

Useful CRM 2011 .NET extension methods

Hello guys, This will be pretty straight forward. In order to use the extension methods below in C# for CRM 2011 development, such as plugins, custom workflow actions, windows services or any other type of CRM SDK based application, you need to follow these steps: 1. Download the latest CRM SDK here. 2. Navigate to… Continue reading Useful CRM 2011 .NET extension methods