C# – Celinio's technical blog : learning and adapting

Asynchronously run a method with the Async and Await keywords

March 6, 2014March 6, 2014 by Celinio

I wrote this small class to illustrate the use of the Async and Await keywords which were added in .NET 4.5. It should quickly help anyone curious to understand this easier way to write asynchronous programs in C#. The output below (DOS window) shows clearly the difference between the call of a synchronous method and … Read more

About some of the new features of Java 8 …

March 31, 2013March 30, 2013 by Celinio

Just want to signal something that a lot of Java developers seem not to be aware of : a few of the upcoming features of the JDK 8 have been available in C# for some time now. .NET / C# Java Lambda expressions (closures) .NET 3.5 – C# 3 – 2007 JDK 8 – 2013 … Read more

How to use customized entities

September 20, 2010September 9, 2010 by Celinio

CRM Dynamics contains native entities (contact, account, opportunity, appointment …).
The CRM SDK API already contains specific classes for these native entities.
It is possible to create customized entities. To use them in programs, i found that there
are two options for that : either use crm webservice or use the CRM SDK API. With the latter option, you have to use Dynamic entity to access your custom entities.

Steps to run a plug-in for the Dynamics CRM in debug mode

September 9, 2010September 8, 2010 by Celinio

Here are the steps to run a plug-in in debug mode
1) In Visual Studio (BIDS), build the project
2) Copy the generated DLL file and the PDB file (they are located in the project folder, under bin\Debug) to the CRM assembly folder : C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM\Server\bin\assembly
3) Deploy or redeploy the plug-in using the Plug-in registration tool