I have just been setting up a new Crm project using the MS Crm4 Developer toolkit. Hats off to the guys at MCS, its a great bit of work and is packed full of amazing features which if used properly will ensure extra quality and best practice in the development of a Crm4 solution.

However I did have a bit of a problem with it which I have managed to fix – the default DevBuild.bat MSBuild script would not register my plugins if I ran my Crm server on any port other than 80!

I had followed the documentation about changing the server names etc. but whenever it tried to register my plugins the build failed.

It turns out that the MSCrm 4 Developer toolkit will only play nicely out of the box if you are running Crm on port 80, I am running on port 5555 though! After More...

I've been working on a MS CRM 4 project and found that the custom entities that we added displayed an 'Add Existing xxxxx to this record' button when it was not required and created a lot of confusion among the users.

Microsoft have said they will make this optional 'In the next release' but that is not soon enough for me!
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