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Jun 21, 2026
Coming from a stronger C# background, I instinctively reach for helper classes to maintain DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principles. That instinct served me well until I carried it into SSIS. When I needed to reuse logic across packages, I did the natural thing: I built a shared DLL and registered it in the GAC on the server. It worked fine until I needed to add more optional arguments or change the data type of the argument to the existing method. Every time I need to update that assembly and re-import it, my packages break with a DTS Script Task: Runtime Error. The reason caught me off guard: the precompiled script binaries inside each package were still bound to the old version of the DLL, and a normal build never recompiles them. In today's post, I'll walk through how I tackled this by building a console application that rebuilds the Script Tasks and Script Components automatically.
May 24, 2026
When working with Power Platform, the Dev environment often holds the latest version of what your team is building. However, tracking what actually changed between exports across components, flows, and configurations is a tedious task. The diffs are noisy, the XML is unreadable,...
Mar 15, 2026
Another blog post to handle the concurrency issue. Previously, I shared how to do concurrency via a plugin in this blog post and also how to force concurrency behavior in Dataverse in this post. However, when I attempted to implement this, it still did not resolve the concurrency...
Nov 26, 2022
Before we continue, this blog post will only work if you using Early-Bound on your plugin project (for Late-Bound, you can follow this blog post). The scenario that we will cover is to get rid of the hassle of the below method (I will show you using the code to make it easier):...
Jul 2, 2022
When I scanned Microsoft.Xrm.SDK namespace from Visual Studio, I found an exciting extension in the ContextExtensions class. In there, we can discover InputParameterOrDefault<T> that accepts a string parameter. Without further ado, let's go to my testing about it! Demo 😁 I...
Jun 25, 2022
Celebrating the GA of DataverseServiceClient, let's talk about how to implement concurrency (if there are two users updating the same data at the same time, the system must ensure only the first update success and make fail the other) using an out-of-the-box feature. From...
Apr 29, 2022
In Dataverse, we can add several additional parameters when we request something that you can check in this documentation. And from all the optional parameters provided, my favorite is the "Tag" parameter that allows us to pass SharedVariable to the Plugin. In the documentation...
Apr 16, 2022
When I learned to implement authorization in my WebAPI and tested it in Swagger, I noticed the "Available authorization" page was empty (after clicking the lock icon): Empty Authorization dialog For those who don't know Swagger, you can think of this as a framework that offers a...
Oct 16, 2021
When creating a Dataverse Plugin, we always encounter a scenario where we need to retrieve attribute values of the main entity. But we want to take either from Target's attribute or PreImage/PostImage/Database's attribute. For example, if we have an entity (table) that contains...
Aug 25, 2021
Today we will learn how to create a Custom API to get a file from File DataType in CRM. I only knew that CRM got this DataType when I browsed our beloved community forum last week. I can't find the thread already. But in short, the thread started questioning how we could get the...