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FetchXML Intellisense
This is a guest writer for the site!
He is writing about the intellisense feature in the FetchXML Builder tool.
Who should write about this – other than Mark Carrington who add the feature to the tool!
Continue reading “FetchXML Intellisense” New Tool – XRM Tokens Runner
XrmToolBox just got their 13’s tool from me!
Continue reading “New Tool – XRM Tokens Runner”NEW: Bulk Data Updater 🚀
It is crazy!
I have now released
a new version of my tool.
Bulk Data Updater (and Assign, SetState and Delete of course) got the improved:
Continue reading “NEW: Bulk Data Updater 🚀”XrmToolBox Integration Tester
The XrmToolBox Integration Tester tool primarily helps tool developers validate any integration scenarios where other tools call their own tools.
Continue reading “XrmToolBox Integration Tester”Custom Translations – the Easy Way
In many customer projects and products, I have built solutions for managing translations in Microsoft Dynamics 365 / CDS / CRM.
Sure, the metadata can be translated to show labels etc in the language of the user, but having a custom solution for translations ensures localized content for texts that are shown to the user from code or automation.
Continue reading “Custom Translations – the Easy Way” A Pro Code Escape in Power Automate
Microsoft Power Automate is a fantastic platform when it comes to low-code automation, with connectors to literally hundreds of data sources.
But what if you need to do something too complex for the existing flow actions?
Take the Pro Code Escape with the Common Data Service.
Continue reading “A Pro Code Escape in Power Automate” Git Submodules in Visual Studio
Ever since I started working with development, I have both created and consumed libraries, frameworks, utilities and snippets to simplify and streamline my code. The methods to include this code have varied a lot; from simply copy-pasting code to linked files to private NuGet servers with build automation, full CI/CD etc.
Continue reading “Git Submodules in Visual Studio”Balancing Cool Tech, Usability and TCO
I’m a techie.
I like new, shiny, cool stuff.
Newest however, usually costs.
And customers usually like cheap.
Users don’t care about either.
They just want a system that empowers more than it obstructs.
So how do you find the balance between the three? Is it even possible? Or is it just another Project Management Triangle?
Continue reading “Balancing Cool Tech, Usability and TCO” The Milliseconds Are Here!
Ever since I started using the Plugin Trace Log for investigation of my plugins around three years ago, I have wondered why we don’t have timestamps with better granularity than seconds.
As I expressed it in an article from 2017:
Continue reading “The Milliseconds Are Here!”Given the CPU power we have today, it is just incomprehensible why we should not get more detail in the timing of plugin execution.
From A Canary in CRM
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