Kids, don't try this at home!

Finding out what information gets handed to you via the IPluginExecutionContext is not easy, most of the time you’ll hook up a remote debugger or write to a log file to find out which is tedious and time consuming to setup.

You have a workflow, you have 5000+ records, and you do an advanced find, it brings back the records only to find that you can run the workflow on a maximum on 250! (With unsupported customizations you can increase this limit but let’s stay out of that space for now)

Lately I’ve been hearing this word “It can’t be done” or “It’s not possible” all the time and it’s getting annoying, these words/phrases are poison to developers, especially young people who are just starting out their career, when all they hear is “can’t / not possible” it conditions them to think that way by default, it gets even worse when you get them in-front of customers and instead of thinking and coming up with a solution the default answer becomes “can’t” or “not possible”.

The plugin registration tool is great when you want to quickly register, change and test plugins, but if you have an automatic build/testing environment you need some way to creating a new CRM organisation, importing customizations, register custom plugins/workflows and run your tests.

October 1st is the day here in New Zealand where the G.S.T (Goods and Services Tax) will change from 12.5% to 15%. If you're using Dynamics CRM 4 or are about to implement CRM 2011 then this is a good opportunity for you to future proof your system.