Dustin Miner

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

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

Posted in Dynamics 365 CE

Display associated records on a Dynamics 365 form’s ‘Related’ tab

Dustin Miner
posted on March 5, 2022September 4, 2024
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The post illustrates how to display related records on a Dynamics 365 form's 'Related'

Posted in Developer Tips, Visual Studio

Keyboard Shortcuts & Commands

Dustin Miner
posted on February 28, 2022September 4, 2024
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Here’s a list of keyboard shortcuts & commands that I use in my day to day activities. I find it makes life a bit easier File System Search For a grep like search using the window command

Posted in Dynamics 365 CE, SSRS

Uploading a report to an SSRS server

Dustin Miner
posted on January 30, 2022March 15, 2022
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Introduction In Dynamics 365, most of the time, users are going to want to view reports from within Dynamics 365. However, there are scenarios where reports don’t need to be viewed from within

Posted in C#, Dataverse, JavaScript

Retrieving data from Dataverse

Dustin Miner
posted on January 18, 2022July 26, 2024
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Introduction The post describes several methods for retrieving data from Dataverse. Retrieving data using C# Query Expression FetchXML LINQ Note: Early binding is required for this. In this example,

Apply addPreSearch & addCustomFilter to a Lookup

Dustin Miner
posted on December 14, 2021October 2, 2024
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The post describes an example of how to filter the results displayed in a Dynamics 365 lookup control using the client API addPreSearch &

List of Dynamics 365 issues with a suggested next step

Dustin Miner
posted on November 3, 2021September 26, 2024
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1.) Forms Issue At runtime, an entities’ populated attribute isn’t available in the form’s JavaScript. For example formContext.getAttribute(‘cpl_date’).getValue()

Posted in C#, Dynamics 365 CE

Automating the population of an Access Team

Dustin Miner
posted on October 29, 2021November 7, 2022
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Overview In this example, Contoso Pharmaceutical Limited have a clinical trial approval process implemented in Dynamics 365. At design time, it isn’t known who the approvers will be for each

Connecting to an Azure Virtual Machine

Unit testing with xrm-mock in Visual Studio Code

Display associated records on a Dynamics 365 form’s ‘Related’ tab

Keyboard Shortcuts & Commands

Uploading a report to an SSRS server

Retrieving data from Dataverse

Apply addPreSearch & addCustomFilter to a Lookup

List of Dynamics 365 issues with a suggested next step

Automating the population of an Access Team

Install NuGet packages