With many thanks to Merlin Schwaiger – Senior CRM Consultant at PowerObjects for writing this post on how to support MS CRM 2011 Outlook Client on Windows and Outlook 2013.

http://crmwizard.blogspot.nl/2011_02_01_archive.html

Long story shortened:

• The x64 installer for the CRM 2011 Outlook client does not include everything necessary for the client to work.
  
• You must download the x64 installer for SQL Compact 3.5.
  
• You must upgrade the x64 version of SQL Compact 3.5 to version 3.5.8082.0 with the hotfix.
  
• At this point the Outlook client should be able to connect to your CRM 2011 organization.
  

I had some issues making the ADX Studio Customer Portal multilingual.
First I tried having a duplicate website with duplicatie site markers and all… this was way too much.

I solved it just a little easier… use as much translations from CRM as possible… since there are a whole load of translations available when you install a language pack.
In this article I use Dutch and English.

First let me show you the markup for a page with a grid view displaying CRM data.

asp:GridView
ID=”GridView1″ runat=”server” CssClass=”cases” AutoGenerateColumns=”False”
>

<Columns>

    <asp:TemplateField
HeaderText=”Study”>

        <HeaderTemplate >

            <asp:Literal
ID=”ltrHeader1″ runat=”server” Text=’<%# GetHeaderText(“cbr_study”) %>‘></asp:Literal>

        </HeaderTemplate>

        <ItemTemplate>

        <asp:HyperLink
ID=”hlUrl” runat=”server” NavigateUrl=’<%# EducationUrl( (Guid)Eval(“cbr_educationid”) ) %>‘
Text=’<%# Eval(“cbr_study”)%>‘
/>

        </ItemTemplate>

    </asp:TemplateField>

    <asp:TemplateField
HeaderText=”Institution”>

        <HeaderTemplate >

            <asp:Literal
ID=”ltrHeader2″ runat=”server” Text=’<%# GetHeaderText(“cbr_institutionid”) %>‘></asp:Literal>

        </HeaderTemplate>

        <ItemTemplate>

            <%#
ContentUtility.FormatCrmEntityReference(Eval(“cbr_institutionid”) as
CrmEntityReference) %>

            <%# Eval(“cbr_institute_not_listed”)%>

        </ItemTemplate>

    </asp:TemplateField>

    <asp:TemplateField
HeaderText=”Start Date”>

        <HeaderTemplate >

            <asp:Literal
ID=”ltrHeader3″ runat=”server” Text=’<%# GetHeaderText(“cbr_startdate”) %>‘></asp:Literal>

        </HeaderTemplate>

        <ItemTemplate>

            <%# GetLocalDate(Eval(“cbr_startdate”) as
DateTime?) %>

        </ItemTemplate>

    </asp:TemplateField>

    <asp:TemplateField
HeaderText=”End Date”>

        <HeaderTemplate >

            <asp:Literal
ID=”ltrHeader4″ runat=”server” Text=’<%# GetHeaderText(“cbr_graduationdate”) %>‘></asp:Literal>

        </HeaderTemplate>

        <ItemTemplate>

            <%# GetLocalDate(Eval(“cbr_graduationdate”) as
DateTime?)%>

        </ItemTemplate>

    </asp:TemplateField>

    </Columns>

</asp:GridView>

In the code behind of this page, you´ll need the method GetHeaderText… taking the CRM field name as only argument..

In the Session-object I stored MyLanguageCode… holding the 1033 or 1043… whatever the user picked as display language.

protected
string GetHeaderText(string crmField)

{

return
ContentUtility.GetLocalizedLabel(XrmContext, crmField, “cbr_education”, (int)Session[“MyLanguageCode”]);

}

I add in the ContentUtility class a two methods … GetLocalizedLabel and GetLocalizedPickListValues

public
static
string GetLocalizedLabel(XrmServiceContext context, string crmField, string crmEntity, int LanguageCode)

{

RetrieveAttributeRequest CrmAttributeRequest = new
RetrieveAttributeRequest();

CrmAttributeRequest.EntityLogicalName = crmEntity;

CrmAttributeRequest.LogicalName = crmField;

RetrieveAttributeResponse response = (RetrieveAttributeResponse)context.Execute(CrmAttributeRequest);

if (response.AttributeMetadata.DisplayName.LocalizedLabels.Where(l => l.LanguageCode == LanguageCode).Any() == true)

{

return response.AttributeMetadata.DisplayName.LocalizedLabels.Where(l => l.LanguageCode == LanguageCode).SingleOrDefault().Label;

}

// Otherwise return the default label

return response.AttributeMetadata.DisplayName.LocalizedLabels.Single().Label;

}

public
static
ListItemCollection GetLocalizedPickListValue(XrmServiceContext context, string crmField, string crmEntity, int LanguageCode)

{

RetrieveAttributeRequest CrmAttributeRequest = new
RetrieveAttributeRequest();

CrmAttributeRequest.EntityLogicalName = crmEntity;

CrmAttributeRequest.LogicalName = crmField;

RetrieveAttributeResponse response = (RetrieveAttributeResponse)context.Execute(CrmAttributeRequest);

PicklistAttributeMetadata picklist = (PicklistAttributeMetadata)response.AttributeMetadata;

ListItemCollection ddItems = new
ListItemCollection();

string _localizedlabel = string.Empty;

foreach (OptionMetadata option in picklist.OptionSet.Options)

{

if (option.Label.LocalizedLabels.Where(l => l.LanguageCode == LanguageCode).Any() == true)

{

_localizedlabel = option.Label.LocalizedLabels.Where(l => l.LanguageCode == LanguageCode).SingleOrDefault().Label;

}

else

{

_localizedlabel = option.Label.LocalizedLabels.Single().Label;

}

ddItems.Add(new
ListItem(_localizedlabel, option.Value.ToString()));

}

return ddItems;

}