Develop your docs site with docfx

December 22, 2020 · azuredevops

Do you know about DocFx? No? You can read more. You can do a lot more with DocFx. I am covering a scenario when you want to build websites with your favorite languages like using Yamlor Markdown. You can then host your site on either GitHub Pages,...

Connect to Power BI API Programmatically

March 25, 2020 · general

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Trigger logic apps using Powershell or C#

December 29, 2019 · logicapps

I was recently doing a project at work where I needed to trigger logic apps inside Build Pipeline. So I chose powershell as my weapon here. Powershell tasks are readily available inside the DevOps Pipeline. If you are interested in reading more ab...

Connector Series - Power Automate Zendesk Custom Connector

December 29, 2019 · powerautomate

This article is targeted to users who have hands on experience with power automate. If you have questions about creating connectors, then I suggest you to read Microsoft’s official documentation to familiarize yourself.

Versioning your assemblies through build pipelines

June 21, 2019 · azuredevops

I love the idea of how we can simply match the build numbers and use them as a verison on the generated assembly. To do this, we can just write a short powershell script inside the pipeline. Please make sure to read my previous article on how to u...

Customize your build number

June 21, 2019 · azuredevops

This article will help you understand how to customize your build number for CD/CI pipeline. There are two ways either by using predefined variables or custom variables.

Getting started with Dynamics 365 CRM SDK in C#

January 14, 2019 · dynamicscrmsdk

Getting started with CRM SDK has been this simple. CRM now offers you variety of options to connect with. You can choose between XRM Tooling Connector, Standard Core assemblies, or simply use OAuth with Web API. This article will talk about CRM SD...

Using Postman with Dynamics 365 Online and OnPremise

January 14, 2019 · dynamicscrmsdk

Postman is the most popular tool today to troubleshoot and write sample code for testing. Postman offers variety of programming options as well. I love to use variables option which is easy to then show the data.

Getting Started with WebAPI

December 28, 2018 · dynamicscrmsdk

WebAPI is now part of Dynamics 365 since a long time. I will try to present some scenarios through the series including Jscript and C#. Today I will be covering an example to code using WebAPI (with Jscript) and troubleshoot at the same time. Read...

Dynamics 365 – WebAPI CRUD Operations (C#)

July 04, 2017 · dynamicscrmsdk

I’ve added this post to showcase the CRUD operations in C# through WebAPI endpoint. You must have working experience in below areas: – Program using C# Dynamics 356 Online. Visual Studio Conceptual knowledge of ODATA Operations. Using A...

D365 Portals - Using FetchXML with Liqiuid

April 29, 2017 · dynamicscrmsdk

Hello Everyone

Troubleshooting and developing oauth enabled applications with Dynamics 365

December 11, 2016 · dynamicscrmsdk

OAuth applications can be developed using Dynamics 365 Online and OnPremise versions. Let’s see these in more details:

Configure Azure and create dynamics 365 apps using OAuth, WebAPI (C#)

December 03, 2016 · dynamicscrmsdk

Hey Everyone

Dynamics 365 - WebAPI Crud Operations (JavaScript)

November 06, 2016 · dynamicscrmsdk

Hey Guys,

WebAPI Series 1 - Using Jscript to update record attributes

March 10, 2016 · dynamicscrmsdk

Hey Folks,

Integrating CRM with ASP.NET Application (Passive federation - SSO)

March 08, 2015 · dynamicscrmsdk

Hey Guys, I went back a little got this sample out from my source directory. Today I'm expanding a bit on existing sample for building an SSO based application to integrate with Dynamics CRM. I have collated few samples and concepts from below ar...

Create a new business process programmatically with multiple entities

February 13, 2015 · dynamicscrmsdk

Hey Guys, Today I'm going to talk about an exciting new feature of CRM 2013/2015 environment "Business Process Flows". You can read more about the features here While you can do this job from UI, but the idea is to automate the creation of next st...

Use OAuth to Authenticate with the CRM Web Services

January 06, 2015 · dynamicscrmsdk

Hey guys, Today I'm going to talk about an interesting sample on Windows store apps which will go connect with CRM using Oauth. You'll need a working knowledge on the following ADAL (Active Directory Authentication Library) - Available on Nuget ...

Tool for troubleshooting authentication using CRM SDK

July 25, 2014 · dynamicscrmsdk

Hello Folks, Finally I was able to spend some time out to work on shorter code for CRM connection using late bound approach. More than the helper concept the idea is about a universal application which can help you troubleshoot/isolate the issues ...

CRM Early Bound Entity Classes in Code Vs. .NET Traditional LINQ (Entity Framework)

April 26, 2013 · dynamicscrmsdk

Hello Folks, I have been always writing some basic sort of examples on CRM scripting / SDK. This time I have brought down this to .NET core feature called “Entity Framework” versus “CRM SDK”. This article is useful is peop...

Creating CRM Early bound entity in CRM 2011 Plugin

April 03, 2013 · dynamicscrmsdk

Hello Guys, I’m back with exciting new topic which could be helpful when you want to understand on how to use early bound classes in CRM Plugin. Let’s take a look at the hand-on pre-requisites Visual Studio 2010 or higher .NET Framewo...

CRM Plug-in Development - What should you be aware of?

September 18, 2012 · dynamicscrmsdk

Today I’m kicking off the posts on plugins. I dedicate today’s post to CRM developers who are planning for plugin development. I have collected and provided all the information that you would need to understand before you start archit...

Issues authenticating to CRM Online organizations with an error - An unsecured or incorrectly secured fault was received from the other party

September 10, 2012 · dynamicscrmsdk

Hello Developers, This article is most interesting and life saver for who are in trouble with authenticating to CRM Online organizations. Microsoft recently announced about moving organization to integrated O365 environment. Looks awesome!! Does...

Authenticate Office 365 Users with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online

July 28, 2012 · dynamicscrmsdk

Here’s what I have for you guys a simple technique to connect to your CRM office 365 based organizations. I have created a sample to add a new contact. This will help you use the Create function of CRM Service Create an empty solution in V...

SSIS 2008 Integration with CRM 2011 on-Premise

June 06, 2012 · dynamicscrmsdk

This article deals with integrating SSIS 2008 and CRM 2011. You might have faced a lot of issues doing this part. As we know that SSIS 2008 still doesn’t support .NET 4.0 Framework so adding .NET 4 compiled assemblies is not a possible task/...

Enable/Disable out of the box ribbon items

April 05, 2012 · dynamicscrmsdk

Hello Guys, I have come up with an interesting article on enabling/disabling the out of box ribbon items in CRM 2011. This article demonstrates the order entity where I would be disabling the “Create invoice button” based on a conditi...

Debugging CRM scripts using IE developer tool

March 08, 2012 · dynamicscrmsdk

Hello people, I dedicate this post to our newest developers using jscript in CRM. I have added steps on how you can debug your scripts with events like OnLoad, OnSave and OnChange. The process of using IE developer doesn’t change but I have...

Creating records in CRM while Outlook client is in offline mode.

March 08, 2012 · dynamicscrmsdk

Hello All, I’m back with exciting new sample code to develop your own SDK application with offline capability. The application uses Cassini server URL. This article provides you step by step information how and what to write. I have also me...

Existing product lookup lists all the products

February 14, 2012 · dynamicscrmsdk

This article talks about a parent look view which is never visible after the “Display search box in lookup diaglog” is checked while customizing Opportunity Product Entity in CRM 2011. There is an easy workaround to get back to old vi...

Jscripts snippets for CRM 2011

November 21, 2011 · dynamicscrmsdk

I have tried to outline couple of examples that you could use in CRM. These examples are based on Xrm patterns which tells you how you can utilize the resources available in better way. These are newly introduced in CRM 2011. The whole idea is to...

Formatting Telephone Numbers (CRM 2011)

September 21, 2011 · dynamicscrmsdk

This post talks about formatting phone number is US style. The code already available in CRM v4 SDK Guide, however I have re-written the same thing in CRM v2011 model. It only part of code which is different here in the usage of context class ava...

Implementing authentication using CRM v4 SDK

September 07, 2011 · dynamicscrmsdk

Create your custom web service and integrate with CRM 2011 Online

August 25, 2011 · dynamicscrmsdk

I hope this article can help you understand when you need to create a middleware between CRM system and a Legacy system/or custom application.The below example talks about the “contact” entity where the web service accepts the “l...