I was not able to get the Silverlight SDK samples to run. However after some simple changes I was able to get them to go. Here are the code changes I made to get it working.

If you run the "restsilverlightcontacteditor" sample as is [changing the service reference to your environment] you will end up with the following error:

To fix this cross-thread access error make the following changes in the MainPage.xaml.cs file:

Add a member for the contacts data collection:

public partial class MainPage : UserControl
 {
 public MainViewModel TheMainViewModel { get; set; }
 private SynchronizationContext _syncContext;
 private ContosoContext _context;
 private String _serverUrl;
 private DataServiceCollection<Contact> _contacts;

 Next in the SearchContacts method replace the BeginExecute call with the following:

private void SearchContacts(String criteria)
 {
 try
 {
 _contacts = new DataServiceCollection<Contact>();
 //Find all contacts
 if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(criteria))
 {
 DataServiceQuery<Contact> query = (DataServiceQuery<Contact>)_context.ContactSet;
 _contacts.LoadCompleted += new EventHandler<LoadCompletedEventArgs>(OnContactSearchComplete);
 _contacts.LoadAsync(query);
 //query.BeginExecute(OnContactSearchComplete, query);
 }
 //Find contacts based on FullName containing text.
 else
 {
 DataServiceQuery<Contact> query = (DataServiceQuery<Contact>)_context.ContactSet.Where(c => c.FullName.Contains(criteria));
 //query.BeginExecute(OnContactSearchComplete, query);
 _contacts.LoadCompleted += new EventHandler<LoadCompletedEventArgs>(OnContactSearchComplete);
 _contacts.LoadAsync(query);
 }

Next update the OnContactSearchComplete function as follows:

//private void OnContactSearchComplete(IAsyncResult result)
 private void OnContactSearchComplete(object sender, LoadCompletedEventArgs e)
 {
 try
 {
 //Get the original query back from the result.
 //DataServiceQuery<Contact> query = result.AsyncState as DataServiceQuery<Contact>;
 
 //Update the ViewModel and notify the UI that Contacts collection has changed.
 //TheMainViewModel.Contacts = new DataServiceCollection<Contact>(query.EndExecute(result));
 TheMainViewModel.Contacts = _contacts;
 TheMainViewModel.NotifyPropertyChanged("Contacts");
 }
 catch (SystemException se)
 {
 _syncContext.Send(new SendOrPostCallback(showErrorDetails), se);
 }
 }

Next change the OnSaveContactsComplete method with the following:

private void OnSaveContactsComplete(IAsyncResult result)
 {
 /*
 try
 {
 _context.EndSaveChanges(result);
 }
 catch (SystemException se)
 {
 _syncContext.Send(new SendOrPostCallback(showErrorDetails), se);
 }
 */
 Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(() =>
 {
 try
 {
 _context.EndSaveChanges(result);
 }
 catch (SystemException se)
 {
 _syncContext.Send(new SendOrPostCallback(showErrorDetails), se);
 }
 });
 }

Finally update the serverutility class so that you can run the project from visual studio with the following change:

 public static String GetServerUrl()
 {
 String serverUrl = String.Empty;
 
 //Try to get the ServerUrl from the Xrm.Page object
 serverUrl = GetServerUrlFromContext();
 if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(serverUrl))
 {
 serverUrl = "https://<your server name:port>/<your organization name>";
 }
 return serverUrl;

 }

Now the sample should actually work!

You can apply the similar changes to the "RESTEndpointPagingSilverlight" sample to get it to work too.

This can be easily done with the following javascript function:

addNotification = function (message, level) { 
 var notificationsArea = document.getElementById('crmNotifications'); 
 if (notificationsArea == null) { 
 alert('div not found'); 
 return; 
 } 
 
 if (level == 1) { //critical 
 notificationsArea.AddNotification('mep1', 1, 'source', message); 
 } 
 if (level == 2) { //Info 
 notificationsArea.AddNotification('mep3', 3, 'source', message); 
 } 
 if (level == 3) { //Warning 
 notificationsArea.AddNotification('mep2', 2, 'source', message); 
 } 
 if(message == "") 
 { 
 notificationsArea.SetNotifications(null, null); 
 } 
 
}

This will result in the following...

The following code worked nicely with the RTM version of CRM 2011.

 var grid = document.getElementById("InvolvedPartiesGrid"); 
 if (grid) { 
 grid.attachEvent("onrefresh", CheckInvolvedParties); 
 } else { 
 alert("Grid is null"); 
 }

However after Rollup 1 it seems that the grid variable was coming up null. This is because the gird is still loading when the onload event fires. Here is a workaround until this is fixed in a newer rollup.

function Form_OnLoad() 
{ 
 //Attach to the grid refresh event 
 setTimeout("SetupGridRefresh();", 2500); 
} 
 
function SetupGridRefresh() { 
 var grid = document.getElementById("InvolvedPartiesGrid"); 
 if (grid) { 
 grid.attachEvent("onrefresh", CheckInvolvedParties); 
 } else { 
 alert("Grid is null"); 
 } 
} 
 
function CheckInvolvedParties() 
{ 
 window.location.reload(true); 
}

This is likely because you don't have the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010.

You can donwload it here.

https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=18149

Then you need to update the domain account that you selected for the CRM services.

To fix this do the following:

1) Logon to the CRM application sevrer.

2) Open the Computer Management tool.

3) Select Local Users and Groups -> Groups

4) Select the "Performance Log Users" group and add your CRM service account.

This can be done by setting the historical date value in the overridencreatedon field on the entity. When the record is created instead of having the system generated created date the histarical date value will show as the created on date.

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/968872

Here is how you can enabled it:

1) Open the windows firewall console.

2) Click inbound rules.

3) Find "File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request - ICMPv4-In)" and click enable rule. (if you need IPv6 you will need to enable that too)

Or by command line:

netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8

2) Navigate to Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System

3) Edit the "Display Shutdown Event Tracker" setting and select Disabled.

All you get in the spreadsheet for localized labels is the columns object id, object column name and the languages installed (1033, 1036 etc).

This does not leave you much to go on for remembering the context of a label.

You can find the name of the entity that the attribute label is for with the follwing query:

 select t2.name from metadataschema.attribute t1, metadataschema.entity t2 where attributeid = 'fa1102e9-c500-4562-a0db-bc0bb1ccac3c' and t1.entityid = t2.entityid

Take the objectid from the spreadsheet and plug it into the attribtueid parameter above and you will get the entity name.

Happy Translating...