Coded Magic!
The official client-side API reference for Dynamics is targeted at JavaScript (JS). Taking a quick peek at client-side programming’s history, we’ll notice so many attempts at working around JS’ tiresome limitations. One such attempt...
Controls added to forms have a single instance to manage their related attributes. It can be done by calling <form-context>.getAttribute(‘<attribute-name>’). This is pretty straightforward for setting requirement levels or getting their value; however, extra...
A few years back I faced a couple of elusive issues that caused me many a sleepless night. I called them the “downward spiral into madness” issues. They prompted me to write a guidelines...
Nearly all business solutions require sending a notification, one way or another. Dynamics easily provides this functionality for emails: ‘send email’ step or message in code. Going a step further, when the business requires...
At the core of Microsoft’s tooling library (Microsoft.CrmSdk.XrmTooling.CoreAssembly), there resides the out-of-the-box CrmServiceClient class. It provides developers with the means to connect to CRM easily and the convenience of some helpers methods. On its...
Microsoft provides a tool within the Dynamics SDK called CrmSvcUtil. It generates early-bound entity code, which includes classes for each entity in CRM with properties for each field and relation. Microsoft’s Dynamics early-bound entity...
Microsoft recently announced the Office365 AuthType deprecation used in connection strings. This AuthType was the popular choice when connecting to Dynamics Online deployments through the SDK. It was indeed very convenient and saved some headache...
In most engineering disciplines, there exists a set of guidelines in every field that ensures a high-quality delivery and the highest resistance to unexpected failure after going live. This is evident in our attempt...
You are reading the third part of the main article: Testing Dynamics CRM. A plugin is custom code that runs within CRM’s process. However, when unit testing, we have to isolate the environment in...
UPDATE (2019-12-27): I tested adding CRM entity lookups to Virtual Entities in the latest version and it seems to work just fine. The corresponding field in the web service must be a nullable GUID...
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