Hi,
Last week I took this exam and passed with a score of 98. For preparation I used the following training material.
Course 8912: Customization and Configuration in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and Working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (Microsoft Press).
I felt the course 8912 training material is more than enough for passing the exam.
(Chapter 11: Introduction to Advanced Customizations :- There weren’t any questions from this chapter it’s just there for our own understanding).
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Hi,
When we create ASP.NET web service from visual studio and run the web service a test page opens up in which we can test our web service.
We can easily customize that web service test page. The name of the page is DefaultWsdlHelpGenerator.aspx we can found it in the following directory
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\ for ASP.NET 2.0.
Open the page in Visual Studio
First and foremost we would find the following things that could be configured
// set this to true if you want to see a POST test form instead of a GET test form
bool showPost = true;
// set this to true if you want to see the raw XML as outputted from the XmlWriter (useful for debugging)
bool dontFilterXml = false;
// set this higher or lower to adjust the depth into your object graph of the sample messages
int maxObjectGraphDepth = 4;
// set this higher or lower to adjust the number of array items in sample messages
int maxArraySize = 2;
// set this to true to see debug output in sample messages
bool debug = false;
To customize the UI good information is provided over here
Customizing Web Service Test Page’s UI Design
By Default the web service can be tested using Http Get (default) and Http Post, but if we want to test using the SOAP we can make use of the information provided in the following link
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Hi I got this error when i was taking the backup of the farm
stsadm.exe -o backup -directory \\d-4526\MossFarmBackup -backupmethod full
The solution for this is to
Go to Central Administration Page.
Click on your Shared Service
Then on Search Settings there Reset all crawled content
This should solve the problem
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To create a new web application which will use an existing content database we need to do the following.
Open Sql Server Management Studio
To take back up of the database in my case it was ‘WSS_Content_fa5cc7a0686e424bbe4fc128b4a48cf4’
Right click the database — select tasks —select Offline—then select Detach.
Get the mdf and ldf file for the database.
Attach the files and create a new database.
Now to Central Administration Site — Application Management — Create a new web application
Let the name of the database as default.
Now go to Content Database within Application Management — Select the web application just created.
Click on the Database Name — Select Database Status as Offline and Check Remove Content database check box.
Now click on Add Content Database— In the Database Name specify the name of the new restored database.
This is the point we can get this error “A SharePoint database named ‘….. ‘already exists. You must supply another name for the new database”
The solution for this is to go to
SharePoint_Config database —There run this query
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Hi,
We upgraded from CRM 3 to CRM 4, and certain users got this error while trying to access the CRM.
We realized that the users receiving this error had our own custom security role assigned to them. i.e System Primer.
When we assigned them any of the existing default security role there was no problem in accessing the CRM.
So the way we resolved was to assign a default security role and our own custom role to the user, so that he could access the system for the first time without any issues and
after the user has accessed it once than we removed the default security role.
This approach worked for us!!!!
Or another thing that worked was if we are assigning any custom role to users, we gave the write permission for user settings in that custom role.
the kb article for this error are
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953962/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952279/en-us
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There are many ways we can consume a web service
The three common protocols for accessing a .NET web service are
HTTP GET, HTTP POST and SOAP.
The trasport protocol used for them is HTTP. However a web sercie can work on any other internet protocol like SMTP, FTP, Jabber, and TCP.
For HTTP GET and HTTP POST method you can refer to these posts
https://nishantrana.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/calling-aspnet-web-service-from-javascript-ajax-passing-parameter/
https://nishantrana.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/calling-aspnet-web-service-from-javascript-ajax-passing-parameter-post/
The proxy class generated by Visual studio for us using the wsdl itself uses the SOAP.
Let’s take an example of calling the simple web service using SOAP through java script.
Say this is our sample web service
[WebService(Namespace = “http://myNamespace/”)]
[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
public class Service : System.Web.Services.WebService
{
public Service () {
//Uncomment the following line if using designed components
//InitializeComponent();
}
[WebMethod]
public string HelloWorld(String name) {
return “Hello “+name; }
}
The javascript code that we can use to call this web service using SOAP request would be this
<script type=”text/javascript”>
var xmlHttp;
function SoapCall()
{
// creatng the xmlHttp object
xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject(“Microsoft.XMLHTTP”);
// Calling the web service using post and true means asynchronous call
xmlHttp.open(“post”, “http://localhost/WebSite/WebSite4/Service.asmx”, true);
// Setting the request header to let the web service identify the soap request we would be sending
xmlHttp.setRequestHeader(“Content-Type”,”text/xml; charset=utf-8″);
// http://myNamespace/HelloWorld – name of the webmethod
//[WebService(Namespace = “http://myNamespace/”)] which we had applied to our web service class
xmlHttp.setRequestHeader(“SOAPAction”,”http://myNamespace/HelloWorld”);
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=doUpdate;
// setting the soap request body
var soapRequest=”<?xml version=’1.0′ encoding=’utf-8′?>” +
“<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi=’http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'”+
” xmlns:xsd=’http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema’ xmlns:soap=’http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/’>”+
“<soap:Body>”+
“<HelloWorld xmlns=’http://myNamespace/’>”+
“<name>Nishant Rana</name> “+
“</HelloWorld>”+
” </soap:Body>”+
“</soap:Envelope>”;
xmlHttp.send(soapRequest);
return false;
}
function doUpdate()
{
debugger;
if(xmlHttp.readyState==4)
{
var responseXMLResult=xmlHttp.responseXML;
var result = responseXMLResult.lastChild.nodeTypedValue;
alert(result);
}
}
</script>
We will receive the following Soap Response
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xmlns:xsd=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema”>
<soap:Body>
<HelloWorldResponse xmlns=”http://myNamespace/”>
<HelloWorldResult>Hello Nishant Rana</HelloWorldResult>
</HelloWorldResponse>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
We can create our SOAP request by making use of the test page of our Web Service which we can open in IE.
Or else we can use Fiddler tool. (http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/)
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