How to get access privilages for a user on a particular record

            RetrievePrincipalAccessRequest req = new RetrievePrincipalAccessRequest();

            //specify team or systemuser you want to get privileges for
            req.Principal = new EntityReference("team", teamId);

            //specify the CRM record you want to check principal permissions for (can be any entity type)
            req.Target = new EntityReference("account", accountid);

            RetrievePrincipalAccessResponse resp = (RetrievePrincipalAccessResponse)service.Execute(req);
            return resp.AccessRights.ToString();

CRM 2011 Get OptionSetValue Label Text

In CRM 2011, when you try to get the value of an OptionSet, you will always get an Integer value instead of the label value.

Below is the Helper method which is used to retrieve the label of the selected option set

public static string GetOptionSetValueLabel(IOrganizationService service, Entity entity, string attribute, OptionSetValue option)
{
string optionLabel = String.Empty;

RetrieveAttributeRequest attributeRequest = new RetrieveAttributeRequest
{
EntityLogicalName = entity.LogicalName,
LogicalName = attribute,
RetrieveAsIfPublished = true
};

RetrieveAttributeResponse attributeResponse = (RetrieveAttributeResponse)service.Execute(attributeRequest);
AttributeMetadata attrMetadata = (AttributeMetadata)attributeResponse.AttributeMetadata;
PicklistAttributeMetadata picklistMetadata = (PicklistAttributeMetadata)attrMetadata;

// For every status code value within all of our status codes values
// (all of the values in the drop down list)
foreach (OptionMetadata optionMeta in
picklistMetadata.OptionSet.Options)
{
// Check to see if our current value matches
if (optionMeta.Value == option.Value)
{
// If our numeric value matches, set the string to our status code
// label
optionLabel = optionMeta.Label.UserLocalizedLabel.Label;
}
}

return optionLabel;
}

CRM 2011 Developer toolkit

CRM 2011 Developer toolkit is awesome!!!!! cuts down lot of development/deployment time.

Recommend everyone to use it.

P.S :- Still has some minor known issues as of August 2011

Plugin Registration Console Application Tool for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.

Life and Technology: Plugin Registration Console Application Tool for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.

Use FetchXML Aggregation

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg309565.aspx

Page Large Result Sets with FetchXML

int fetchCount = 5000;
// Initialize the page number.
int pageNumber = 1;
string pagingCookie = null;
string fetchXml = Common.GetFetchXmlForComponentInfo(((EntityReference)entity.Attributes["neu_whatifmodelid"]).Id.ToString(), fiscalyear.ToString());
while (true)
{
string xml = Common.CreateXml(fetchXml, pagingCookie, pageNumber, fetchCount);
componentinfocollection = service.RetrieveMultiple(new FetchExpression(xml));
foreach (var c in componentinfocollection.Entities)
{
yearlyinfo.Add(
new ComponentYearlyInformation
{
ComponentId = c.Attributes.Contains("neu_componentid") ? ((EntityReference)c.Attributes["neu_componentid"]).Id : Guid.Empty,
name = c.Attributes.Contains("neu_name") ? (string)c.Attributes["neu_name"] : string.Empty,
YearlyExpenditure = c.Attributes.Contains("neu_yearlyexpenditure") ? (decimal)c.Attributes["neu_yearlyexpenditure"] : 0,
FullyFundedAmount = c.Attributes.Contains("neu_fullyfundedamount") ? (decimal)c.Attributes["neu_fullyfundedamount"] : 0
}
);


}

if (componentinfocollection.MoreRecords)
{
// Increment the page number to retrieve the next page.
pageNumber++;
pagingCookie = componentinfocollection.PagingCookie;
}
else
{
// If no more records in the result nodes, exit the loop.
break;
}

}


public static string CreateXml(string xml, string cookie, int page, int count)
{
StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(xml);
XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(stringReader);

// Load document
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(reader);

return CreateXml(doc, cookie, page, count);
}

public static string CreateXml(XmlDocument doc, string cookie, int page, int count)
{
XmlAttributeCollection attrs = doc.DocumentElement.Attributes;

if (cookie != null)
{
XmlAttribute pagingAttr = doc.CreateAttribute("paging-cookie");
pagingAttr.Value = cookie;
attrs.Append(pagingAttr);
}

XmlAttribute pageAttr = doc.CreateAttribute("page");
pageAttr.Value = System.Convert.ToString(page);
attrs.Append(pageAttr);

XmlAttribute countAttr = doc.CreateAttribute("count");
countAttr.Value = System.Convert.ToString(count);
attrs.Append(countAttr);

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(1024);
StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter(sb);

XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
doc.WriteTo(writer);
writer.Close();

return sb.ToString();
}


Reference : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg309717.aspx

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