Five ways to improve Quality and Productivity of Dynamics 365 development
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FetchXML Builder for Microsoft Dynamics 365/CRM got an extreme makeover
The first release of FetchXML Builder for XrmToolBox in 2018 contains a major face-lift.
New year – new design! After more than three years since first release, the time has come to use all the feedback from issues on GitHub, comments on Twitter, and collected statistics to improve the UI. This article describes some of the major changes introduced with the first release of 2018.
Continue reading “FetchXML Builder for Microsoft Dynamics 365/CRM got an extreme makeover”More Auto Numbering features
In my previous article I described the details of the new Auto Number attributes feature of Microsoft Dynamics 365, and how to manage them using Auto Number Manager for XrmToolBox.
Since this article, a few new possibilities have been verified to be supported.
Continue reading “More Auto Numbering features”Auto Number attributes in Microsoft Dynamics 365
With the release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement October service update (v9.0), two of the most requested customization features were finally implemented in the platform:
- Multi-select optionsets
- Custom auto numbered attributes
A canary in CRM
Have you ever faced a situation when you don’t know why your Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement system behaves the way it does, or why your own plugins behave the way they do?
If you have, this might be a good time to put a canary in your system.
– A what?
– A canary.
You know when we were manually laboring down the coal mines, it happened that drilling into the rock inadvertently let out poisonous gas. So we brought in cages with canary birds putting their life at stake, to save our coal miners’ lives. The canaries were signaling the content of the atmosphere long before the coal miners would detect something dangerous. They did this by suddenly being upside down, instead of happily chattering.
As a plugin developer of many years, I have added extra tracing to my plugins more times than I can count and sometimes even added steps for more messages than necessary, and I am sure most of you reading this post have too, in one way or another.
Continue reading “A canary in CRM”Developing plugins for analysis – part IV
At the eXtreme365 conference in Lisbon, Portugal I did a session on plugin development with focus on adapting your code to empower the tracing and investigation features available in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform.
In this final article from that session I will dig deeper into how use the Correlation Id to trace plugin execution chains.
Continue reading “Developing plugins for analysis – part IV” Developing plugins for analysis – part III
At the eXtreme365 conference in Lisbon, Portugal I did a session on plugin development with focus on adapting your code to empower the tracing and investigation features available in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform.
This is the third article from that session where the Plugin Trace Viewer is explained.
Continue reading “Developing plugins for analysis – part III” Developing plugins for analysis – part I
At the eXtreme365 conference in Lisbon, Portugal I did a session on plugin development with focus on adapting your code to empower the tracing and investigation features available in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform.
ICYMI: This article is the first in a series to describe the essence of that session.
Continue reading “Developing plugins for analysis – part I” Developing plugins for analysis – part II
At the eXtreme365 conference in Lisbon, Portugal I did a session on plugin development with focus on adapting your code to empower the tracing and investigation features available in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform.
This is the second article in a series to describe the essence of that session.
Continue reading “Developing plugins for analysis – part II” I get by with a little help from my [base class]
