When talking to the client about the business requirements, it’s always tempting to think that we can do just about anything in the plugins if we really have to. And it’s true that plugins allow us to implement very powerful customizations, but, on the other hand, that power does not come for free – we… Read More »
There are other ways of doing this, but here is how you can use CodeNow plugin for XrmToolBox to update FetchXml for a system view (you will need, at the minimum, v1.0.0.18 of the CodeNow plugin) Load CodeNow plugin (if it’s not installed yet, go to the plugin store in XrmToolBox and install the plugin… Read More »
I’ve finally downloaded the tools for Dynamics365 V9. Not a big deal, you might say, since those tools used to be part of the SDK package all the time.. and I was waiting for this to be delivered in the same way it has always been delivered.. Only to find out it’s different now You… Read More »
I’ve been experimenting with the CodeNow plugin, and there is a new version (1.0.0.15) you can now download from the plugin store. There are some user interface improvements(progress indicator, better error reporting, better logging), but, also, there is a new piece of functionality which you can see on the screenshot below: This is a dashboard… Read More »
Edited on Nov 6: As Jonas Rapp mentioned in the comments below, the behavior described below is expected. It still makes it a bit different from what we may be used to because there is no on-premise V9 as of now, so, if anyone is still using on-prem dev enviornment, there is no way to sync… Read More »
Tracing service can make it much easier for plugin developers to understand what’s happening in the plugin, especially when there is no other way to debug the code. I was wondering, though, if there would be an obvious performance impact when using the tracing service, so I did some testing tonight: The results ended up… Read More »
This seems to be another one of those “I used to think..”. In this case, I used to think that, once a column is added to the quick find view “find columns”, that column will be indexed automatically. Well, turned out it’s a bit more complicated; although, in the end, it’s probably still correct. First… Read More »
It seems the basics of the Virtual Entities have been covered in the blog post below while this feature was still in the preview: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/lystavlen/2017/09/08/virtual-entities/ Now that we do have it in V9, it seems that one major issue that will be limiting our ability to use Virtual Entities in the real-life scenario is security because Virtual… Read More »
While we still cannot download complete V9 SDK for Dynamics 365, I just noticed that Nuget packages for V9 are available now. So those of us who need SDK assemblies to develop plugins/applications can now install those packages: There will likely be other new features there, but one of those which would not be available… Read More »
I used to think that lookup controls are using entity “lookup view”, but, it seems, I was wrong. It might be something that has changed along the way, or it might always work differently.. this way or another, it came out as a bit of a surprise earlier today when I was looking at V9.… Read More »