Coded Magic!
Issue Sometimes on importing a solution in CRM v8.x, it might fail with the error: ‘Workflow contains an invalid custom activity’. In an effort to try to conquer the ambiguity, I tried to create...
Microsoft introduced Business Process Flows (BPF) back in version 2013. Developers haven’t really faced critical issues when controlling the BPF through the UI, except for the rare bug here and there. However, it has...
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...
Importing an organisation from Dynamics CRM v8 to v9 can be a bit troublesome. You might face strange errors like the ones below. Fortunately, in this article, I compiled a list of possible issues...
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...
You are reading the second part of the main article: Testing Dynamics CRM. Dynamics CRM can be divided into logical units that facilitate its testing by slightly adding twists to known methods wrapped in...
Software is developed by humans, whose propensity for making mistakes is undeniable. Catching those mistakes is paramount to delivering quality solutions to eager customers. Testing is the activity of squashing those bugs. It is...
There are a couple of ways that we can authenticate with a CRM deployment: Active Directory (AD), Claims, and OAuth. Finding a single library that can easily handle all three in Node.js was a...
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