MSCRM

Many a times, it is required to scrub the data before it is used in development environments as the data may be sensitive and cannot be shared with the vendors. The  below SQL functions can be used to scrub the data. --Creating the User defined function    CREATE FUNCTION getRandomText(@sLength TINYINT)   RETURNS VARCHAR(10)   AS                 BEGIN                  DECLARE @counter TINYINT                  DECLARE @nextChar CHAR(1)                  DECLARE @randomString VARCHAR(50)                    SET @sLength=10                  SET @counter = 1                  SET @randomString = ''              ...

If for some sane reasons if fetchxml needs to be converted to a SQL Query in MSCRM 4.0, it is possible. It actually requires the below DLL's which are avilable in the folder Server\setup Microsoft.Crm.dll, Microsoft.Crm.Platform.Server.dll and Microsoft.Crm.Reporting.dll The code looks as below : Microsoft.Crm.BusinessEntities.ExecutionContext myContext = new Microsoft.Crm.BusinessEntities. ExecutionContext (OrganizationId from the context); myContext.OnBeginRequest(UserId, false); Microsoft.Crm.Reporting.ReportQueryBuilder myreportQueryBuilderObj = new ReportQueryBuilder(); string Query = myreportQueryBuilderObj.BuildReportQuery(fetchXml, myContext); The query will be returned as string. The Query is not readable but it works, -:)

In web.config file,  system.webServer tag, for the validation element set the value of the attribute   validateIntegratedModeConfiguration to false. This infact helped in my case.