Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Developing CRM 2011 and AZURE

CRM 2011 online is great. No server maintenance, fairly good performance and use of liveID's.
Azure is even greater. Easily configure a number of  instances running for both development, User Acceptance Test, Staging and Production.
But publishing to UAT can take up to 15 minutes. And untill yesterday I couldn't run any local debugging due to missing references to system.web.providers. It is targeting .Net 3.5 but my project is targeting 4.0.

I had to get the Windows Identity Foundation SDK, and then add the Microsoft.IdentityModel to my project. Even SDK had to have Microsoft Identity Service installed as a prerequisite.

Now i am able to run the entire project on my local machine and can easily debug and remove any errors before deploing to Dev.


For what ever it is worth to any one.