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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Unleashed
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Unleashed

by Marc Wolenik, Damian Sinay, Rajya Bhaiya
September 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1008 pages
24h 27m
English
Sams
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Overview of Plug-Ins

A plug-in is a .NET assembly that can be used to intercept events generated from the CRM system, to perform a variety of actions (previously referred to as callouts in earlier versions of CRM 3 and before). An example of event interception is an entity that will be created, updated, or deleted, and an action can be virtually anything. Some common plug-in uses might include

• Performing a complicated update routine on CRM entities and/or attributes when it might be impractical to use JavaScript

• Grabbing data from another system and updating CRM when an entity instance is being created or updated

• Updating another system programmatically from CRM (such as an accounting system)

Using plug-ins, you can fire a custom action ...

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