Iconator for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

This application eases the customization of custom entities icons in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. It has been developed by Lloyd Sebag and Tanguy Touzard and is provided for free. The tool is available on CodePlex

Metadata Document Generator for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

Metadata Document Generator for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is a great tool for documentation of MS CRM 2011. For more information and download,visit the following Codeplex site

Features

• Wizard style application
• Connect to all type of Dynamics CRM 2011 deployments
• Select entities to include in workbook/document
• Possibility to select which attributes to include in documentation
• Select language output for entity/attribute display name if multiple language pack are installed
• Generate MS Excel workbook or MS Word document

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Application

 

Generated Excel workbook

Generated Word document

CRM 2011 Lookup Preview

This tools provide to  detail information about Lookup record, user can see more detail information, click it and open Lookup details form. Although this serves the purpose, it’s still an extra click that user have to make to see the details of Lookup field. For more information and download,visit the following Codeplex site

Silverlight CRM Attachment Image

The Silverlight CRM Attachment Image leverages the REST End Point to provide a simple way to add a changable image to a CRM 2011 form/entity using a Silverlight application. The image is stored in the notes, leveragin core CRM. For more information and download, visit the following Codeplex site

CRM 2011 Excel Data Model Addin

This excel Add-Id helps to customize CRM 2011 entities schema. 
All the customizations are made using CRM webservices reading the schema information from excel sheets. 

The idea is to keep all the information of the crm entities in an excel sheet and use the sheet as source for customize a crm application with all the common utilities provided by excel.
The excel sheet is far more faster than the classic crm web interface to manipulate entity, for example with crm excel add-in you can add option-set values in less time avoiding the annoying web interface.


For more information and download, visit the following site

CRM2011 User Settings Utility

CRM2011 User Settings Utility will makes it easier to update the user settings for multiple users from one location. Administrators can pick a group of users and set their default page , time zone, default calendar, records per pages, start and end time for a working day with few clicks. For more information and download, visit the following page

CRM 2011 Timeouts and Limits

There are few limitations of CRM 4.0 and Microsoft CRM 2011 like  Excel Export, Data Import, Sub-Grid’s On The Form, Query Result Set Limit and etc. To resolve these problems visit the following site.