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Lately, I'm still actively thinking about designing a system that also considers error-proofing as part of the feature. For example, we want to ensure the transaction that we will execute is successful in 3 times execution. Meaning, we need to implement a retry policy that Polly...
When we think about integrating Dynamics CRM with other source systems, we can discover there are lots of ways to do it. Today, we will cover one architecture design that we can implement if we want to push the changes from CRM to other source systems. Design Architecture From...
"Feature flags" is a mechanism to set the on/off for a feature without changing the code. You can learn more about this from a blog post here. With the Environment variable in place (previously many organizations created their own Config Table), we can implement Feature flags in...
Do you know Dynamics CRM Webhooks? The definition from the official documentation: CRM Webhooks is a feature that enables CRM to call other URLs using HTTP patterns with publish/subscribe patterns. , I do not quite agree with the definition because we still can register the...
The most common requirement that usually we need to apply is filtering the lookup dynamically based on the state of the current attribute. For example, you have a Custom Approval entity (table) that got a lookup to Customer and Custom Document. Then when the user on the Custom...
If you ever make a product based on Dynamics CRM and needs to use multiple environments + solutions for multiple projects. But still willing to achieve tidy + clean solutions when registering events. Here is my recommendation on how to do it without needing to heavily rely on...
On my blog, one of the most viewed posts is Dynamics CRM Plugin Development: Pre-Operation vs Post-Operation. This makes me realize that I need to create another blog post about plugin development, in general, to let you know the dos and don'ts in plugin development (in a general...
Do you know that we can do UI Testing easily in Dynamics CRM? In this blog post, we will learn about how to set up a solution project for doing UI testing using the PowerApps.UIAutomation.Api nuget package. Like the naming, UI testing means that testing that being done...
Dynamics CRM introduced a preview feature (Custom API) for developers to make code reusability easier. For instance, the function that I used a lot is to take the current user's Teams. I always have a requirement if the User is under team "A", then some attributes need to be...
I've read a book by Robert C. Martin book titled Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design and was amazed by one statement in the book: Don't marry the framework. Robert C. Martin Based on Uncle Bob's opinion, coupling a third-party library directly...