Notes on code and the things I build.
dynamics-crm , Javascript , powerplatform , tips
How many of you already know about PCF (PowerApps Component Framework) control? A framework that lets us (developers) create customized UI to be used in PowerApps. Because we are talking about customized UI and I'm a pure programmer, making use of Bootstrap is always a way to go...
Architecture , Clean Code , dynamics-crm , Javascript , powerplatform , tips
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...
Architecture , C# , Clean Code , dynamics-crm , powerplatform
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...
Architecture , C# , dynamics-crm , powerplatform , tips
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 , Javascript , powerplatform , tips
Do you know that in Xrm.Utility object now has a nice function called lookupObjects? When we call this function, it will help us open a nice dialog that lets us choose (single or multiple) records and return to us an array of the selected data. We can pass lots of combinations of...
C# , dynamics-crm , powerplatform , tips
Last week, we already learned how to build a simple code to get data from Web-API to project the result in RetriveMultiple message that you can access here. Now we will continue to implement advanced scenarios for filtering, sorting, and paginating the data. Filtering + Sorting...
C# , dynamics-crm , powerplatform
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...
dynamics-crm , Javascript , powerplatform , tips
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...
dynamics-crm , powerplatform , tips
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...
C# , dynamics-crm , Javascript
One of the hardest things to implement in Dynamics CRM is data concurrency. When multiple people are updating the same data, by default CRM will still allow it. But there is always a scenario where we want to prevent this thing and there is no simple way to implement it in...