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If you want to page query results in dynamics CRM then the recommended way is paging cookies: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc151070.aspx Sounds straightforward, we get a paging cookie back on each resultset, and we simply add this to our request for the next page. What doesn’t seem well documented is that these paging cookies do not work for a lot of queries, even though they are returned on the first page. Let’s set up a simple example to demonstrate this. First we will […]

Here at TrueNorth we love functional programming and if you code in this style you will end up using lots of tuples, and tuples of tuples and…. you get the idea. A lot of bread and butter business software coding is just manipulating sets of data, grouping, selecting, filtering, joining etc… Often whilst transforming your inputs to your outputs there will be some intermediary structures involved. There are a few options for representing these structures:   Wrapper Classes Pros: readable, […]

If your system is slow, IISLOGS give you the true server side performance statistics, review this in the first instance. We have recently delivered a large solution with 3000+ users and millions of records. The system went from a low user-base / record count to its current level in a very short period. We were keen to measure the performance of the system early on. We wanted to measure the following: % Slowpages (pages that take longer than 5 seconds […]

We at trueNorth recently helped our client with their data migration from a legacy system to a Dynamics CRM solution. The main requirement for the business was the dataload had to complete in 1 weekend, this included: Preparation The migration Validation and Testing   We also had to leave enough time to revert back to the existing database if needed, so.. when we say a weekend we really mean 30 hours or so. Many “off the self” products were tried […]