How to write a custom web form in Dynamics CRM 2013

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I have a requirement of a custom grid in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013. From a SharePoint perspective, it would have been a web part. But in CRM 2013, I don't see a similar concept. I need the custom grid to be displayed in a pane for an Entity in CRM? How could that be implemented if possible? Any ideas?

I think your question is too broad. Please read How To Ask, modify it accordingly and try to narrow it down — kkuilla
yes I realized that. The answer on my post has helped me clarify this. So I'm not modifying the original question for now. Is that okay? — A.K
You should make your question as clear as possible from the beginning. A good clearly defined question will get upvotes, draw high quality answers that will probably help you a lot and it will help future readers who are having the same problem. — kkuilla
i´ve just found this tutorial looking for kind of the same answer, is about creating a Silverlight App and embedding it in the form as an iFRAME, hope it helps: blogs.msdn.com/b/crminthefield/archive/2011/06/23/… — Analyst

Bojan Borisovski Bojan Borisovski · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-17T11:00:51

Your question is to broad, but i think what you mean is how to make a custom web page in CRM.

In Dynamics CRM 2013, you cannot add a custom aspx page, as part of a CRM, you can only put custom Silverlight and HTML/Javascript powered web pages, the latter being the preferred way, of creating these.

However if you need to create a custom web application, you can create it as a separate web application in a separate IIS website, use the CRM web services to access data, and then embed this web application in an iframe on an entity form in CRM.

In order to connect to the crm web service, from custom apps you can use early or late binding.

Early binding sample code
Late binding sample code

Personally i use late binding as connection is easier and it seems to have better performance. The simplest way to obtain a connection to the CRM service for CRUD operations is the following code:

string connString = "Url={DynamicsCRMUrl}; Username=username; Password=password; DeviceID=AnyDeviceId; DevicePassword=AnyDevicePasscode";
CrmConnection crm = CrmConnection.Parse(connString);
IOrganizationService service = (IOrganizationService)new OrganizationService(crm);

For crm online and IFD configured CRM you must add the DeviceID and DevicePassword, for on premise it is not necessary.

Make sure you have the CRM 2013 SDK for the required assemblies.

I am answering the question with a long shot, with assumptions, as i am not sure if this is what you require, but i hope it gives you guidance.

How to write a custom web form in Dynamics CRM 2013

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