Why my navigation control isn't clickable?

Just imagine... You are developing report for CRM which should allow you to open records of CRM from report. You have done everything in accordance to SDK - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg309480 but... navigation item doesn't work.

MS CRM 2011: N-N Relationship control: checklistbox style

I have developed WebResource for CRM which displays N-N relation in checklistbox style and decided to share it:

MS CRM 2011: CallerOrigin in plugins

Yesterday well-known MVP Tanguy Touzard, author of amazing tools for Dynamics CRM 4.0/2011 asked about CallerOrigin property in plugins for Dynamics CRM 2011. This property worked for CRM 4.0 and returned the source of plugin invocation (Application, AsyncService or WebService). I and Gayan suggested to use HttpContext class from System.Web namespace to check source.
 Today during debug of one plugin in QuickWatch window I have seen that CallerOrigin property is still in context but it is not property of IPluginExecutionContext:

MS CRM 2011: Sql Timeouts during access to views

Yesterday we have deployed solution on productive system and imported data – about 40 millions of records in different entities. During testing “Generic Sql Exception” messages begun appear for some types of records.

MS CRM 2011: Strange error during sending of an email from plugin

I had scenario when my plugin based on some condition had to send an email. I developed plugin, deployed it to server and during the testing I have got quite strange error:

MS CRM 2011: Embed context report to left navigation pane

Idea of this blog post is how to embed report to left navigation pane of Crm editing form. I have found this brilliant post which describes how to embed report into IFrame located on Crm editing form and I took this post as basis for current post.

MS CRM 2011: Import of marketing list members using standard import with small extensions

Unfortunately at the moment it is impossible to import Marketing Lists Members to CRM with out-of-box import. My friend, former MVP and employee of Microsoft Artem Grunin provided good approach how to eliminate this problem with small customizations and plugin.