Debugging CRM 4.0 Plugins in Visual Studio 2010

Hello, Spent a bit of time today pulling my hair out trying to develop (and debug) a CRM 4.0 plugin in Visual Studio 2010. Here’s some cheat-sheet notes Target Framework 3.5 – The IDE won’t even allow you to add the references to the SDK libraries unless it’s 3.0 or above. Once you have the dll and pdb disk deployed for your plugin and you wish to attach to the process make sure that you change the code type from automatic to Managed (v2.0,v1.1,v1.0) and T-SQL. The second one there was the sticking point since it’s usually set to automatic which will target 4.0...
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Consuming a blog RSS using LINQ to XML

Hello, While setting up our corporate Blogs I was tasked with displaying our blog RSS feeds on the corporate domain.  I’ve previously accomplished this in asp.net by parsing the feed and displaying the results however this time I wanted to try something a little different. Recently I’ve started to use LINQ a lot in my development efforts to rapidly query data that otherwise would require more plumbing.  While surfing across the blogosphere I came across the following post from Scott Guthrie.  This was pretty much what I was looking for with the exception of adding some data caching. The...
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