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Making the OnLoad event handler asynchronous

  • Dustin Miner
  • posted on May 11, 2023May 17, 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
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Posted in Azure DevOps, Dynamics 365 CE, Visual Studio

Azure DevOps feature branching

  • Dustin Miner
  • posted on May 4, 2023May 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
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Posted in Azure DevOps, Dynamics 365 CE

Using Solution Packager in a shared developer environment

  • Dustin Miner
  • posted on April 14, 2023May 18, 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.
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Posted in Azure DevOps, Dynamics 365 CE, Visual Studio

Creating an Azure pipeline to build a Dynamics 365 based solution

  • Dustin Miner
  • posted on March 28, 2023June 3, 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
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Posted in C#, Dynamics 365 CE, Visual Studio

Creating a plugin and unit testing it with FakeXrmEasy

  • Dustin Miner
  • posted on March 16, 2023May 21, 2023
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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 On line 10 of Figure 1, it’s implementing
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Posted in Dynamics 365 CE, TypeScript, Visual Studio

Unit testing with xrm-mock in Visual Studio 2022

  • Dustin Miner
  • posted on February 2, 2023June 1, 2023
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Overview The purpose of this post is to provide an introduction into how to setup automated unit testing of Dynamics 365 client-side TypeScript. Initial Install & Setup 1.) Install node.js if not
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Posted in Dynamics 365 CE

Form Component Control

  • Dustin Miner
  • posted on November 25, 2022May 21, 2023
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Overview As an alternative to a Quick View form, there is a control called ‘Form Component Control’. This allows a main form (only) to be displayed (and editable) within another form. In
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Posted in Dynamics 365 CE

Multiselect Lookup Control

  • Dustin Miner
  • posted on October 29, 2022May 21, 2023
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Overview Consider the situation where a subgrid of contacts needs to be placed on the Appointments activity form. This would be an N:N relationship between the Appointment and Contact entities.
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Posted in Azure

Connecting to an Azure Virtual Machine

  • Dustin Miner
  • posted on September 13, 2022April 12, 2023
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The purpose of this post is to illustrate how to connect to an Azure virtual machine (VM). Firstly, by connecting via the less secure RDP and then via the more secure Bastion 1.) Connecting via RDP A
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Posted in Dynamics 365 CE, TypeScript, Visual Studio

Unit testing with xrm-mock in Visual Studio Code

  • Dustin Miner
  • posted on May 27, 2022May 21, 2023
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Overview The post provides a few examples of unit tests for Dynamics 365 client-side TypeScript (Figure 6). It also describes, at a very high level, some of the configuration required to achieve
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