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Posted in Client API for model-driven apps, Dynamics 365 CE, TypeScript

Xrm.Utility.lookupObjects to add records to a subgrid

Dustin Miner
posted on January 4, 2024November 19, 2024
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Introduction This post explains how to ‘re-wire’ the ‘Add Existing Court Orders’ button (Figure 1) to call the Xrm.Utility.lookupObjects client API (with custom defined

Posted in Dynamics 365 CE, PCF, React, TypeScript

Communication between React PCF controls and the form

Dustin Miner
posted on November 29, 2023July 18, 2024
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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, TypeScript

Create and deploy a standard PCF control

Dustin Miner
posted on July 27, 2023September 3, 2024
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The post describes the steps involved in creating and deploying a simple PCF

Making Xrm.WebAPI calls synchronous

Dustin Miner
posted on July 2, 2023September 26, 2024
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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, 2023May 24, 2024
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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

Implement feature branching in Azure DevOps

Dustin Miner
posted on May 4, 2023October 1, 2024
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This post provides an example of how feature branching can be used to allow a developer to apply their work item changes to a develop branch (following the Gitflow

Posted in Azure DevOps, Dynamics 365 CE

Using Solution Packager in a shared developer environment

Dustin Miner
posted on April 14, 2023July 11, 2024
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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 DevOps release pipeline to deploy a Dynamics 365 based solution

Dustin Miner
posted on April 12, 2023July 28, 2024
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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 DevOps pipeline to build a Dynamics 365 based solution

Dustin Miner
posted on March 28, 2023July 28, 2024
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Overview The post describes, at a high level, how to do the following using an Azure pipeline Running the pipeline The pipeline (i.e. pipeline-build-products-contoso.yml) is triggered either manually

Posted in C#, Dynamics 365 CE, Visual Studio

Creating a plugin and unit testing it with FakeXrmEasy

Dustin Miner
posted on March 16, 2023July 15, 2024
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Overview This blog post represents a high level example of how to create and unit test a Dynamics 365 plugin using FakeXrmEasy. Creating the plugin JourneyTeam.Xrm On line 10 of Figure 1, it’s