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Let's try Dataverse Dependent Assemblies for Plug-ins

Aug 6, 2022

For a long time, Developers for Dataverse don't have an official way to use third-party libraries when creating plugin(s). If we want to reuse existing code, the only official way to do it is to use the Shared Project which is limited to the code that we own + the IntelliSense in...

Enable Log instantly by passing ILogger in DataverseServiceClient

Jul 16, 2022

When you are using DataverseServiceClient, we can see the constructor where we can pass an instance of ILogger. The purpose of this, of course, is to get more information regarding what is happening in our system (you also can monitor the performance). Depending on the scenario...

How to use InputParameterOrDefault method in The Dataverse Plugin

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...

Enforce ConcurrencyBehavior on DataverseServiceClient

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...

Create Field Security Profile Programmatically in Dataverse

Jun 18, 2022

Recently, my friend (Low Ming Hua) told me about an interesting scenario related to the Field Security Profile. He needs to enable lots of attributes and set the Field Permission to specific teams (he also shared with me his code and I modified it!). For those who don't know, we...

How to test service protection API limits in Dataverse

Jun 10, 2022

When I read this documentation about Service protection API limits, I was curious about the easiest way to get the error to validate the code in the documentation and enhance it. I read the documentation and found out about Dataverse search, which has a stricter policy (one...

How to use the getUserPrivilege function in Dataverse Client API

Jun 4, 2022

The getUserPrivilege is a function that will return canRead, canCreate, and canUpdate. This function correlated with the Field Level Security feature making it suitable to check if users have enough privilege to run our custom function on Javascript. For example, we have below...

How to use OnExternalUpdated for Dataverse Virtual Entity

May 21, 2022

When we have already set up a Virtual Table/Entity in the Dataverse, sometimes there is a scenario when a data is being updated in the source system, it also needs to trigger the Dataverse Event (that contains our custom business logic). Today, we will learn how to enable Virtual...

Dynamics CRM: Populate Data using InitializeFrom Function

May 7, 2022

Do you notice when we create a Lead and qualify it in Dynamics CRM, the out-of-the-box feature will convert the Lead to Contact (all the data that was input in Lead, automatically populated in the Contact)? And sometimes, we are also being requested to make the same feature...