CRM 2011 useful packaged solutions

The following solutions are handy when working on crm 2011. They are similar in the sense that they make a task simpler, and customization's are more efficient compared to the steps involved without the solution. They have decent documentation on how to use their features, and so far I have not seen any issues using them (i.e, they are pretty stable). Hope it helps!


1. Ribbon editor: A tool for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 that lets you edit CRM ribbons.  This ribbon editor shows a preview of the CRM ribbon as you are editing it and allows you to easily modify the ribbon without needing to completely understand the underlying XML schema.

http://crmvisualribbonedit.codeplex.com/

2. Sitemap Editor: Provides a quick and easy way for users to update the site map through a user interface within Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Users will be able to immediately see the updated navigation pane when they publish the customizations.

http://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-us/applications/microsoft-dynamics-crm-sitemap-editor-12884928049

3. Metadata Browser: The CRM 2011 Metadata Browser is a Silverlight 4 application that is packaged as a Managed CRM 2011 Solution. This tool allows you to view metadata within CRM including Entities, Attributes and Relationships.

http://crm2011metabrowser.codeplex.com/

4. oData Query Designer: The CRM 2011 OData Query Designer is a Silverlight 4 application that is packaged as a Managed CRM 2011 Solution. This tool allows you to build OData queries by selecting filter criteria, select attributes and order by attributes. The tool also allows you to Execute the query and view the ATOM and JSON data returned.

http://crm2011odatatool.codeplex.com/

5. View replicator: View Layout Replicator make it easier for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 customizers to copying the layout of a view and paste it to the layout of other views in the same entity

http://viewlayoutreplicator.codeplex.com/

6. Manage JS webresources: JavaScript Web Resource Manager for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 helps CRM developers to extract javascript web resources to disk, maintain them and import changes back to CRM database.

http://jswebresourcemanager.codeplex.com/