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Apr 2, 2021
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...
Mar 26, 2021
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...
Mar 19, 2021
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...
Feb 26, 2021
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...
Feb 20, 2021
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...
Jan 29, 2021
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...
Jan 16, 2021
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...
Dec 24, 2020
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...
Dec 18, 2020
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...
Nov 30, 2020
With all the things settled, now we can continue our journey to make our PCF-Component better. The last commit that we submitted, there are few things that we can enhance: When you choose an image file, then click the Submit button. We can reset the input file. Hide the...