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