“Publish” temporarily hangs my machine

Question

A minor irritation at worst really, but still bugs me...

In MSCRM 2011, when I click the "Publish" link anywhere (Publish Entity, Publish Customisations etc..) I get the usual "Publishing customizations..." pop-up and everything works as expected, however this process causes my machine to semi-freeze. It's tricky to explain the exact symptoms, but essentially some applications hang until the publish is completed (Outlook 2010, Internet Explorer, Firefox at minimum).

Is this a common issue or have I (inadvertently) changed a setting on my machine which might cause such behaviour?

Environment

Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit running IE 9.0.8 64-bit, on a Dell XPS i7 / 8GB RAM.

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I'm also thinking that this might be a Superuser.com question now I type this (but I know that CRM coverage is poor there). Vote me down if you must ;)

Answer 1

I get the same behaviour, so I suspect its working as designed.

Answer 2

Alternatively, you could use a separate program to handle publishing. I've never experienced a system hang using third party tools or my own solutions to publish various CRM elements. I'm guessing the problem is isolated to the CRM client. Jamie Miley has a good blog post on publishing, the C# portion of which I've posted below.

How to: Publish All Customizations Using Jscript or .NET in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 With the PublishAllXmlRequest

PublishAllXmlRequest publishRequest = new PublishAllXmlRequest();
service.Execute(publishRequest);

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On further reflection, the best way to eliminate the hang is to simply edit the Developer tab of the Application Ribbon and add a button that will call either javascript or C# code that will publish changes for the current item you're working on or all entities.

Depending on how complex your requirement is, this could be relatively easy. And of course this is all contingent on how annoying you find that wait to be.