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Have you ever heard about Virtual Entity? In short, the Virtual Entity is read-only data. We can pull the data from any other data-source to Dynamics CRM to let users view the data. So now we will be experimenting create Virtual Entity and setup the code until we can see it in...
In my blog post, I had explained how to use setSharedVariable and getSharedVariable functions for plugin development that you can read here. When I check on the documentation in the Client API reference, we also can found there are the same functions that we can use for front-end...
I have a lot of experience integrating Dynamics CRM with the other source systems that required a lot of code to be built in the plugin. We need to connect to Web API > parse the response > mapping the response > then verify the result. If you ask me to do it in the code, sure it...
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...
Have you ever joined multiple tables when retrieving your data in the plugin? If so, most likely you already know what AliasedValue is all about. This post will describe when and how you can use AliasedValue. But the objective of this post is to make a simple extension to consume...
In this post, we already make the basics of the exe program for updating Resx WebResource and being called with Power Automate Desktop. Now we will continue to extend our customization. Power Automate Desktop enables us to make automation for our local computer. For instance, we...
In this post, we already learned how to make a plugin library for getting resx web-resource. Now we will build a simple automation program (a little bit DevOps) to read an Excel file and create/update resx web-resource with a single click. Also, we will use Power Automate Desktop...
Have you ever tried Xrm.Utility.getResourceString? Xrm.Utility.getResourceString is a function that we can use in the front-end to return the localized string for a given key associated with the specified web resource. For instance, we can use it for storing localized error...
Now we go to the last part of the tutorial for Front-end Customization. We will implement Niam.Xrm.Client and Niam.Xrm.Client.Tests on the project we set up earlier. Niam.Xrm.Client is a framework wrapper for Xrm object that focuses on making customization easier, while...
As developers, we are supposed to adapt ourselves to a better working framework or mindset. Following a Test-Driven Development (TDD) mindset, for example, enables us to work more effectively in the long run, compared to not using it. Hence making unit tests has become a crucial...