CRM 2011 Context Depth Issue

With CRM 2011 events now being transactional, i.e. when an error occurs, the requested change is rolled back, this has posed its own unique set of problems.  Here’s one I faced recently…

Background Information:

Let’s say a user enters information on a form on any entity and clicks save.  Like any other .NET web application, the data entered by the user is then submitted to the database.  Validation occurs, and if valid, the data is submitted and then finally committed to the database.  The resulting values (including any calculations done by CRM plug-ins) are returned back to the form for the user to see.

In CRM 4.0, all the values entered on a form are submitted to the database as a collection of properties (field names and values).  If any validation errors occurs, the collection of properties containing the values the user entered is NOT submitted, but rather the collection…