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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”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
It is like defining my age by saying I was born sometime during the second half of the 20th century.
Five ways to improve Quality and Productivity of Dynamics 365 development
a.k.a – Once I did a session twice
Just like last year in Lisbon, I did a developer focused session during eXtreme365 in Dubrovnik. Last year I had full focus on how to develop plugins for analysis, primarily using the Plug-in Trace Log in the code and how to best analyze the results of it.
This year I took a bit wider approach with an ambition to help developers become more productive and get higher quality of their code. In this article I will go through the five different areas I covered in the session.
Continue reading “Five ways to improve Quality and Productivity of Dynamics 365 development” 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
