In this post we will see how we can open a Silverlight application on click of a custom button in CRM 2011.
First of all create a Silverlight web application which you want to execute on button click in CRM application.
Compile your Silverlight Application. In the web project of your application you will find a ClientBin folder. When you compile your application a xap file is created under the ClientBin folder. Create a webresource of type xap and upload the xap file created under ClientBin folder.
Now second step is to embed the Silverlight application in an html file. Create an html file within your Silverlight application web project and add this code.
Note:
1) In the source parameter specify the path of your xap webresource correctly.
Here name of the webresource is ink_/XAP/ExpenseNote.xap and so the value for source is “../XAP/ExpenseNote.xap”, a relative path.
2) Also add the SilverLight.js file as a webresource. You can find the Silverlight.js file in sdk in the Silverlight example projects.
Now create a webresource and upload this html file. We have named this html webresource as CreateExpenseNote.html.
Now we need to open this html file on click of a button.
For this we will create a button. You can create button using the Visual Ribbon editor. To use Visual Ribbon Editor refer this link http://ankit.inkeysolutions.com/2012/01/crm-2011-how-to-use-visual-ribbon.html
In the Visual Ribbon Editor define the action for the button as given below:
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In Action you can either directly specify a URL which will be accessed on button click or you can specify a javascript function which is defined within a webresource of type javascript file. In this example we would be using a javascript function defined within a webresource.
Here OpenSilverLightControl is the function that contains code to open the CreateExpenseNote.html file and OpenExpenseNote.js is the webresource within which the function is defined.
So on button click the CreateExpenseNote.html file which embeds the Silverlight application, is displayed as a ModalDialog .
First of all create a Silverlight web application which you want to execute on button click in CRM application.
Compile your Silverlight Application. In the web project of your application you will find a ClientBin folder. When you compile your application a xap file is created under the ClientBin folder. Create a webresource of type xap and upload the xap file created under ClientBin folder.
Now second step is to embed the Silverlight application in an html file. Create an html file within your Silverlight application web project and add this code.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>ExpenseNote</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
}
body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#silverlightControlHost {
height: 100%;
text-align:center;
}
</style>
<script type="text/jscript" src="../../ClientGlobalContext.js.aspx"></script>1:2: <script type="text/javascript" src="../JavaScripts/Silverlight.js">1: </script>2: <script type="text/javascript">3: function onSilverlightError(sender, args) {4:5: var appSource = "";6: if (sender != null && sender != 0) {7: appSource = sender.getHost().Source;8: }9:10: var errorType = args.ErrorType;11: var iErrorCode = args.ErrorCode;12:13: if (errorType == "ImageError" || errorType == "MediaError") {14: return;15: }16:17: var errMsg = "Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application " + appSource + "\n" ;18:19: errMsg += "Code: "+ iErrorCode + " \n";20: errMsg += "Category: " + errorType + " \n";21: errMsg += "Message: " + args.ErrorMessage + " \n";22:23: if (errorType == "ParserError") {24: errMsg += "File: " + args.xamlFile + " \n";25: errMsg += "Line: " + args.lineNumber + " \n";26: errMsg += "Position: " + args.charPosition + " \n";27: }28: else if (errorType == "RuntimeError") {29: if (args.lineNumber != 0) {30: errMsg += "Line: " + args.lineNumber + " \n";31: errMsg += "Position: " + args.charPosition + " \n";32: }33: errMsg += "MethodName: " + args.methodName + " \n";34: }35:36: throw new Error(errMsg);37: }38:</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server" style="height:100%">
<div id="silverlightControlHost">
<object data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="100%" height="100%">
<param name="source" value="../XAP/ExpenseNote.xap"/>
<param name="onError" value="onSilverlightError" />
<param name="background" value="white" />
<param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="4.0.50826.0" />
<param name="autoUpgrade" value="true" />
<a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=149156&v=4.0.50826.0" style="text-decoration:none">
<img src="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=161376" alt="Get Microsoft Silverlight" style="border-style:none"/>
</a>
</object><iframe id="_sl_historyFrame" style="visibility:hidden;height:0px;width:0px;border:0px"></iframe></div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Note:
1) In the source parameter specify the path of your xap webresource correctly.
Here name of the webresource is ink_/XAP/ExpenseNote.xap and so the value for source is “../XAP/ExpenseNote.xap”, a relative path.
2) Also add the SilverLight.js file as a webresource. You can find the Silverlight.js file in sdk in the Silverlight example projects.
Now create a webresource and upload this html file. We have named this html webresource as CreateExpenseNote.html.
Now we need to open this html file on click of a button.
For this we will create a button. You can create button using the Visual Ribbon editor. To use Visual Ribbon Editor refer this link http://ankit.inkeysolutions.com/2012/01/crm-2011-how-to-use-visual-ribbon.html
In the Visual Ribbon Editor define the action for the button as given below:
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In Action you can either directly specify a URL which will be accessed on button click or you can specify a javascript function which is defined within a webresource of type javascript file. In this example we would be using a javascript function defined within a webresource.
Here OpenSilverLightControl is the function that contains code to open the CreateExpenseNote.html file and OpenExpenseNote.js is the webresource within which the function is defined.
function OpenSilverLightControl()
{
var serverUrl = Xrm.Page.context.getServerUrl(); window.showModalDialog(serverUrl+'/WebResources/ink_/html/CreateExpenseNote.html', " ","dialogWidth:800px ; dialogHeight:600px; center:yes;resizable:yes");
}
So on button click the CreateExpenseNote.html file which embeds the Silverlight application, is displayed as a ModalDialog .
