Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 tools, utilities, scripts & controls

Following are the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Tools, Utilities, Scripts and Controls that can be helpful in development.

Name:	Category:	Short description:	Type:
Slider Form Control	Form Controls	Slider control for use in forms	Managed Solution
Star Rating Control	Form Controls	Star rating control for use in forms	Managed Solution
Silverlight CRM Image Attachment	Form Controls	Provides a simple way to add a changable image to a CRM 2011 form/entity. The image is stored in the notes, leveragin core CRM.	Silverlight App
CRM 2011 Lookup Preview	Form Controls	Control that shows the preview of selected lookup record	Managed Solution
CRM2011 TreeView for Lookup	Form Controls	Will enable users to use TreeView control to select Lookup data where Lookup is having Self Joined (e.g. account entity  having Parent Account)	Managed Solution
CRM2011 TreeView for Dependant Picklist	Form Controls	Enables Users to use Dependent Picklist data in TreeView form. Having data displayed in TreeView form makes data selection easier and faster	Managed Solution
File upload control – MS CRM 2011	Form Controls	MS CRM 2011, adding a custom control for File Uploading purpose inside the forms, by using the features of MS CRM itself.	JavaScript
MS CRM Rich Text box	Form Controls	This plug-in gives you the feature of adding Rich text box in MS CRM 2011 forms without using any server side HTML or JS or Aspx page.	JavaScript
CRM2011 User Settings Utility	Form Controls	Update user settings for multiple users from one location.	Desktop App
Related records explorer	Form Controls	Silverlight tree control to see the related records(upto any level) of current opened record in form. The entities and the relationships to display is configurable.	Managed Solution
MS CRM 2011 Twitter Integration	Form Controls	Display recent 10 twits related to customer in MS CRM 2011.	Web Resource
LINQPad Plugin for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011	General Development	Helps write and execute LINQ queries	Desktop App
CRM 2011 OData Query Designer	General Development	Silverlight app that allows you to build OData queries and execute them and view the ATOM and JSON data returned.	Managed Solution
Connection Controls	General Development	Connection Controls for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 makes it easier for developer to implement discovery and authentication mechanism in their winform project	VS library
CRM2011 Code Snippets	General Development	A set of JavaScript and C# code snippets to facilitate common Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 development for Visual Studio 2010.	JavaScript and C# snippets
Developer Toolkit	General Development	Enables integration with Visual Studio and is focused on accelerating the development of custom code Solution components. Included in the SDK.	VS addin
Bulk Delete CRM Attributes	General Development	self-explanatory	Desktop App
BingMaps Browser	Integration	Bing Maps Silverlight control for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011	Managed Solution
Skype Connector for CRM 2011	Integration	Allow you to communicate via Skype (outbound calls) directly from a CRM contact record	Managed Solution
InfoPath to CRM	Integration	Enables you to accept emailed InfoPath forms and convert them to entities	Managed and Unmanaged Solution
google maps viewer	Integration	Managed Solution for Dynamics CRM 2011 for embedding google maps in any address form	Managed Solution
Skype Connector for Dynamics CRM 2011	Integration	Skype Connector for Dynamics CRM 2011 enables you to integrate inbound Skype calls with Dynamics CRM. Projects consists of two components: agent tray application & Solution for CRM 2011 (Unmanaged or managed).	Managed Solution and Desktop App
JavaScript Web Resource Manager	JavaScript Development	Helps CRM developers to extract javascript web resources to disk, maintain them and import changes back to CRM database	Desktop App
CRM 4 to CRM 2011 JavaScript Converter	JavaScript Development	Helps convert scripts to the latest CRM 2011 Form scripting model	Desktop App
MS CRM Javascript Intellisense Generator	JavaScript Development	Provide intellisense in Visual Studio for CRM scripting model	Visual Studio include file
Toggle visibility	JavaScript Development	Control visibility of controls, sections, tabs, navigation	JavaScript
Change color of form header and footer	JavaScript Development	self-explanatory	JavaScript and CSS
XrmServiceToolkit	JavaScript Development	JavaScript library for easier JS development. Enables you to execute REST, SOAP methods and other common functions needed	Managed and Unmanaged Solution
XrmSvcToolkit	JavaScript Development	XrmSvcToolkit is a small JavaScript library that helps you access Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 web service interfaces (SOAP and REST).	Managed and Unmanaged Solution
CRM 2011 JavaScript Model Generator	JavaScript Development	This tool will increase developer productivity as well as performance in regards to client-side scripting on CRM 2011 entity forms.	Console App
CRM 2011 Visual Studio Tools	JavaScript Development	The tool will listen to the Traffic and when it identifies a JavaScript WebResource file, it will exchange it with your local copy. So you can edit and test the Script directly after you saved the file on your harddrive. You can test the script inside CRM without the need of uploading it to CRM.	VS addin
CrmXpress Trace Helper	Maintanance & Administration	Helps you to enable/disable tracing for CRM components with few clicks. Also gives you the option to manage the trace files from within a single window.	Desktop App
Diagnostics Tool	Maintanance & Administration	Helps you enable trace and devErrors on CRM server. It also generates an HTML report file with information about the CRM deployment	Desktop App
CRM2011 Maintenance Job Editor	Maintanance & Administration	This utility is to be used for editing the CRM 2011 maintenance jobs which are automatically scheduled by the installation of CRM	Desktop App
CrmXpress OptionSet Manager	Maintanance & Administration	Tool to manage all your Option Sets in your CRM 2011 system. It lets you create new Option Sets, update Options in existing Option Sets and delete Options	Desktop App
Multiple Attachment Download Application	Maintanance & Administration	MS Dynamics CRM 4.0 & 2011 don’t have a way for Administrators to Export attachments from database to local machine. This Application allows you to do so	Desktop App
Role Updater	Maintanance & Administration	Add or remove privileges to multiple security roles in one operation	Desktop App
Count CRM users	Maintanance & Administration	Get a count of the number of users across all of your organizations	Desktop App
CRM 2011 Silverlight Web Resource for User Settings	Maintanance & Administration	This utility allows a User with certain permissions to Update User Settings such as DefaultCalendarView, PagingLimit and ShowGetStartedPage.	Managed Solution
Searchable Property Updater	Maintanance & Administration	Makes it easier to bulk change the "Active for advanced find" property of entities attributes	Desktop App
CRM2011 Duplicate Detection Toolkit	Maintanance & Administration	Contains a set of stored procedures that allow to obtain a list of duplicates that can then be consolidated in a report.	Stored procedures & report
CRM 2011 Bulk Disassociation of 1:N relationship records	Maintanance & Administration	CRM Solution which will allow User to remove child records from Parent Entity form and they need not go to individual child record form	Managed and Unmanaged Solution
Export Import User Views	Maintanance & Administration	Silverlight application for Exporting and Importing user views between different Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 environments	Managed Solution
Bulk refresh of user details from AD	Maintanance & Administration	Bulk update of user details from AD. Exposed as a ribbon button	JavaScript
CRM Powershell Management pack	Maintanance & Administration	Set of additional cmdlets to manage CRM system	Powershell Snap-in
Metablast	Modelling & Documentation	Runs through the CRM API to automatically generate a CSV file with all of the data fields for the entities that you specified.	Console App
XRMVisioER	Modelling & Documentation	Generates ER model in Visio based on your CRM metadata	Desktop App
CRM 2011 Visio add-in: Business Unit Org Chart	Modelling & Documentation	This Visio 2010 addin connects to CRM Server, fetches all business units in the organization and draws an org chart.	Visio add-in
Metadata Document Generator for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011	Modelling & Documentation	Metadata Document Generator makes it easier for Dynamics CRM 2011 integrators to generate documentation about entities and attributes metadata.	Desktop App
CRM 2011 Metadata Browser	Modelling & Documentation	Silverlight 4 application that is packaged as a Managed CRM 2011 Solution. Allows you to view metadata within CRM including Entities, Attributes and Relationships. Can export to Excel	Managed Solution
CRM 2011 ERD Designer	Modelling & Documentation	Silverlight 4 application that is packaged as a Managed CRM 2011 Solution. Allows you to build ERD (Entity relationship diagrams) that are dynamically updated based on the published CRM entities and Fields. Supports printing.	Managed Solution
CrmXpress RunAs GUI	Other	Allows you to create profiles with username and password reducing time for testing with different users	Desktop App
Dynamics XRM Tools	Other	Toolset containing following utilities: Odata Query Designer, MetadataBrowser, Trace Tool, Statistics, CRM4 To CRM2011 JS Converter	Managed Solution
MSCRM 2011 – Send report in pdf format as attachment in email	Other	Send report in pdf format as attachment in email. The main idea for creating it as console application was the ability to run it with windows task scheduler on a timely basis.	Console App
Quickly Create Users in AD from CSV	Other	Creates Active Directory users from CSV list	powershell script
CRM 2011 Autonumbering Solution	Plugins	This is a Solution for crm 2011 for autonumbering the configurated entity.	Unmanaged Solution
CRM 2011 Plugin Testing Tools	Plugins	This Solution is meant to make unit testing of plugins in CRM 2011 a simpler and more efficient process.	Plugin and VS class
Plugin Registration Console Application	Plugins	You can now register your plugins and custom workflow activities from a command line, within Visual Studio from the post-build event or from a TFS Build post-build event.	Console App
Microsoft CRM PluginQuickDeploy	Plugins	This tool is made for speeding up your plugin development against Microsoft CRM 2011.	Console App
Advanced CRM 2011 Auto Number	Plugins	Advanced CRM 2011 Auto Number is the most advanced auto number Solution for CRM 2011 Online, On-Premise and Partner Hosted (IFD).	Managed Solution
Solution Import	Solution Management	Makes it to import a Solution Zip file or a extracted Solution folder to the server in one single operation	Desktop App
Dynamics CRM 2011 Versionhandler	Solution Management	Getting all you customizations under versioncontrol in TFS has never been more simple. Requires Team Explorer	Plugin
SiteMap Editor	UI customization	For editing sitemap	Desktop App
CRM 2011 Visual Ribbon Editor	UI customization	For editing ribbon, shows preview as well	Desktop App
View Layout Replicator	UI customization	Helps copying the layout of a view and pasting it to the layout of other views in the same entity	Desktop App
CRM 2011 Workflow Utilities	Workflows	Custom workflow activities for CRM 2011 for: Delete record, Share or “unshare” a record, Insert hyperlink to a CRM record,	Managed Solution
CRM Manipulation Library	Workflows	Set of custom workflow activities to solve equations, date calculations, manipulates strings, perform regex ) formatting & matching	Custom Workflow Activity
CRM2011 Views and Filters Toolkit	Workflows	custom workflow activities to help manage views, filters, filter templates and local data groups	Managed and Unmanaged Solution
CRM 2011 Distribute Workflow Activity	Workflows	This plugin allows to execute a workflow for each entity that has a 1:N or N:N relationship to a given entity	Managed and Unmanaged Solution
Workflow Automation	Workflows	Schedule worfklows via Task Scheduler	Console App
CRM 2011 Share Record Code Activity	Workflows	A simple custom workflow activity to share any record that can be shared or remove sharing to any record in CRM 2011.	Custom Workflow Activity

I hope it can help you.

Enjoy :-)


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