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Dataverse: Address 101

Aug 23, 2025

The bigger your Contacts/Accounts (Customers) data, the more it also consumes your Dataverse Database Capacity. I had a client who had a database overage problem, and further checking, the CustomerAddress table was on the list. If you open the table, you will find lots of empty...

Dataverse: C# extension to simplify how to get Custom API Input

Aug 2, 2025

I'm fairly certain that all of us agree that we are performing mundane code to obtain input parameters when developing custom APIs. For populating the context.PluginExecutionContext.InputParameters, we need to extract each parameter and cast the value to the correct data type,...

Dataverse: Learn how to create .NET MCP

Jun 14, 2025

With the hype of Model Context Protocol - it's kinda a plugin for LLM (Large Language Model) to interact with the external tool(s), I always wonder how to create one. For my field, which is Power Platform - Dataverse, I saw the great Natraj's GitHub repo about MCP Dataverse, and...

Debunking: Dynamics CRM Destination - How Text Lookup Works

May 25, 2025

When we want to push data to Dataverse/Dynamics CRM using SSIS - KingswaySoft, usually there are relationships (lookup) that we need to settle. In KingswaySoft, there are multiple ways to handle the Lookup: Do not use TextLookup (Input values are provided in GUID Format) Use...

Dataverse: Benchmark ExecuteMultiple Request SDK vs WebApi call

Mar 22, 2025

In the PowerApps-Samples repo, I found interesting sample code to execute Dataverse messages using WebAPIs call. For those who ask why there is this option, it is because not so many organizations let you install NuGet Packages freely without having risk analysis (the reason can...

Azure Data Factory: Read CSV file, Transform and push data to Dataverse

Mar 16, 2025

Let's try to create a simple scenario that we can do in Azure Data Factory! Azure Data Factory is a serverless data integration service that sits in the Azure. The terminology of ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) or ELT (Extract, Load, and Transform) can be processed by it, and...

Dataverse: Updated ServiceClient Strategy For Better Performance

Mar 9, 2025

If you remember, I created this blog post on how to create a class that wrapped ServiceClient. I must do it because instancing a ServiceClient is expensive (around 2 seconds). Hence, I need to find a way to "store" it in memory and ensure it is always ready when I need to call...