Sunday, December 11, 2011

A few must have Tools for CRM 2011

Hi, I'm sorry is been a lot to do at work the past few weeks, so few updates :( But here comes a nice one, a list of nice tools for MS CRM 2011 with a short description:
http://pragmatoolkit.codeplex.com/
It provides easy user interface to create custom buttons and add to CRM Ribbon without having to manually modify the underlying XML files. It also takes care of creating the solution and publishing it back to MS CRM 2011.
http://jswebresourcemanager.codeplex.com/
JavaScript Web Resource Manager for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 helps CRM developers to extract javascript web resources to disk, maintain them and import changes back to CRM database.
You will no longer have to perform mutliple clicks operation to update your js web resources
http://crm2011odatatool.codeplex.com/
The CRM 2011 OData Query Designer is a Silverlight 4 application that is packaged as a Managed CRM 2011 Solution. This tool allows you to build OData queries by selecting filter criteria, select attributes and order by attributes. The tool also allows you to Execute the query and view the ATOM and JSON data returned.
http://crm2011metabrowser.codeplex.com/
The CRM 2011 Metadata Browser is a Silverlight 4 application that is packaged as a Managed CRM 2011 Solution. This tool allows you to view metadata within CRM including Entities, Attributes and Relationships.
http://roleupdater.codeplex.com/
Role Updater for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 makes it easier for CRM 2011 administrators and developers to add or remove privileges to multiple security roles in one operation.
You'll no longer have to open each security role and apply privileges one by one.
- This application is compatible with OnPremise, Online and Claims based authentication deployments

Hope these tools give you an early Chrismast vecation by saving you some time :)