Researching MSCRM 3.0 Internals

Posted on February 18th, 2006 Mitch Milam  Print No comments

In the Microsoft Business Solutions CRM Developer Newsgroup, Arne Janning gave an excellent suggestion for those of you with developer inclinations and a willingness to explore the MSCRM system to learn more about its inner-workings.

Open Notepad and create a file that looks like this:

<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" >
  <ItemGroup>
    <Item Include="*/**" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>
  

Note: If you copy and paste the above text into notepad or VS2005, make sure the double-quotes are normal double-quotes and not the special "pretty" quotes. VS doesn't like the fancy quotes and will give you errors when you attempt to open the file.

Save this with a .csproj extension in the root-folder of your MSCRM web site. Load Visual Studio 2005, select Open Project, navigate to the MSCRM web site then double-click on the .csproj file.Just don't do anything unwise like saving any of the files. We don't want to run the risk of upsetting CRM in any way – or damaging the files and rendering the site unusable.

I also hope I don't need to state that it is a really bad idea to do this to a production server, do I?

References:

CRM Developer Newsgroup Post

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