Dustin Miner – Dynamics 365 technical blog

Implementing the componentDidMount method in a React PCF control

Dustin Miner
posted on December 6, 2023December 6, 2023
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Introduction The PCF control displayed in Figure 1 is a React based PCF control called a MultiSelectControl. Referring to Figure 2, there are two components ‘Generic Component’ and

Posted in Dynamics 365 CE, PCF, React

Communication between React PCF controls and the form

Dustin Miner
posted on November 29, 2023December 6, 2023
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This issue The PCF framework supports communication between the PCF and form via binding to a field or dataset. However, what if more comprehensive communication is required? This post describes (at

Posted in Dynamics 365 CE, PCF

Creating a simple PCF control

Dustin Miner
posted on July 27, 2023August 15, 2023
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Introduction The post describes the steps involved in creating a very simple (PCF) control (the control is circled in green in Figure 2). Consider the requirement to place labels on a form. One way

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Making Xrm.WebAPI calls synchronous

Dustin Miner
posted on July 2, 2023August 23, 2023
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Overview This post describes two examples for how to interact with Xrm.WebApi.retrieveMultipleRecords(). The first is an asynchronous approach and the second is a synchronous approach. 1.)

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Making the OnLoad event handler asynchronous

Dustin Miner
posted on May 11, 2023July 14, 2023
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Introduction Consider a section on a form called ‘banking details’. When the form is loaded, the section should be either visible or hidden based on certain business rules. In the case

Posted in Azure DevOps, Dynamics 365 CE, Visual Studio

Azure DevOps feature branching

Dustin Miner
posted on May 4, 2023June 22, 2023
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Introduction The post provides an example of how feature branching can be used to allow a developer apply their work item changes to a repository main branch. The example will discuss: Creating a

Posted in Azure DevOps, Dynamics 365 CE

Using Solution Packager in a shared developer environment

Dustin Miner
posted on April 14, 2023July 11, 2023
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Introduction Consider the situation where multiple developers are working on one solution in a shared development environment. When a developer is finished making their changes to the solution (e.g.

Posted in Azure DevOps, Dynamics 365 CE, Visual Studio

An Azure release pipeline to deploy a Dynamics 365 based solution

Dustin Miner
posted on April 12, 2023June 15, 2023
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Overview In the post An Azure pipeline to build a Dynamics 365 based solution the artifacts displayed in Figure 1 were produced. This post illustrates these artifacts being successfully deployed to a

Posted in Azure DevOps, Dynamics 365 CE, Visual Studio

An Azure pipeline to build a Dynamics 365 based solution

Dustin Miner
posted on March 28, 2023June 19, 2023
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Overview The post describes, at a high level, how to do the following using an Azure pipeline Build a Dynamics 365 Visual Studio solution (i.e. building the ‘Code’ folder as shown in

Posted in C#, Dynamics 365 CE, Visual Studio

Creating a plugin and unit testing it with FakeXrmEasy

Dustin Miner
posted on March 16, 2023August 9, 2023
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Please note that there are issues with this blog post Overview This blog post represents a high level example of how to create and unit test a Dynamics 365 plugin. Creating the plugin JourneyTeam.Xrm