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It's been a long time since I wanted to try the offline capability of Dataverse in the Canvas App (You can learn more in this official documentation). Again, the one that makes me curious is how the system behaves (in terms of managing concurrency and how we enforce strict...
Hi Folks! This time, we will learn about Elastic Table. Before we begin, I need to credit the great Mark Carrington for his blog post (about Elastic Table too) that you can read here. Elastic Table is the new way to store data in Azure Cosmos DB for heavier workloads with...
In Dataverse, we have lots of Data Types that we can use. But, there are two Data Types that seem similar (in terms of functionality -I skip the rollup columns as this type has a period of time/manual to be refreshed). We know the great Calculated Columns that have already been...
As you all know, in Dataverse, there is a hard 2-minute time limit for an operation to complete that you can read here. And most of the time, we stumble into a scenario where we must bypass this limitation. If your project is on the cloud, we can do it using Azure Service Bus...
When I learned to implement authorization in my WebAPI and tested it in Swagger, I noticed the "Available authorization" page was empty (after clicking the lock icon): Empty Authorization dialog For those who don't know Swagger, you can think of this as a framework that offers a...
There is always a scenario in your organization that requires you to bypass PluginExecution (can be workflows or plugins) when doing CRUD (Create, Read, Update, or Delete) operations. Today, we will learn how we can do it in several ways. For this demonstration, I create a...
Lately, I'm still actively thinking about designing a system that also considers error-proofing as part of the feature. For example, we want to ensure the transaction that we will execute is successful in 3 times execution. Meaning, we need to implement a retry policy that Polly...
When creating a Dataverse Plugin, we always encounter a scenario where we need to retrieve attribute values of the main entity. But we want to take either from Target's attribute or PreImage/PostImage/Database's attribute. For example, if we have an entity (table) that contains...
One of the topics I wanted to learn and cover is how to do DevOps in a Dataverse environment. DevOps for me is an operation/process that helps to ensure smooth delivery from developer to operation (end-user). The idea is to remove all the unnecessary/recursive processes and...
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...