I like the unified interface. I did not like it when it was introduced originally, but I don’t mind it at all the way it is now. One thing I used to not like that much about the navigation in the recent versions of Dynamics is that whenever I clicked a lookup it would just… Read More »
While creating a PCF control I realized at some point that building and packaging it is taking time. More importantly, it’s taking time from the developer – I don’t mind if my laptop spent some time doing all the deployment, but why would I want to also baby sit this powerful machine? So, basically,… Read More »
I was curious to see what writing an actual custom PowerApps component using the PowerApps Component Framework (PCF) would look like, but, up until a few days ago, there was always something in the way. Now that I finally got some hands-on experience, it seems there are a few things which I wanted to… Read More »
In case you were wondering what that “stage for upgrade” option means and why is it there in the first place: It’s all about deleting components from the managed solutions. The ALM whitepaper actually does a good job describing this feature, though there is a lot of other content in that document, so “stage… Read More »
If you have not looked at the EasyRepro yet, you probably should: https://github.com/microsoft/EasyRepro I wrote a post about EasyRepro before with some explanations of how it works, so this may also be helpful: https://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics-crm/easy-repro-what-is-it/ Now, I am not sure if Microsoft is “all in” on making PowerApps development a primarily dev-only activity, but, at… Read More »
Earlier today, we got a strange request from the user who was wondering what would be the reason he kept getting an error message? Indeed, we knew he should not be getting that error. Although, after looking into it, we found that there was a form the user was working on, it was a regular… Read More »
A lot of TypeScript tutorials are available online, so I was looking for one recently and, it seems, this one is really good IF you are familiar with some other language already: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/typescript So, while working through it, I noticed a few things which might strike you as being somewhat unusual if you are… Read More »
The more I’m looking into the PowerApps Component Framework, the more obvious it becomes that the era of “do-it-all”-ers in Dynamics/PowerApps might be coming to an end. Although, it’s not just the PCF that’s making me say this. I turned to Dynamics some time ago since I did not want to stick to pure development… Read More »
I often read/hear that Microsoft Flow is not suitable for the advanced integration scenarios where Logic Apps should be used instead. That statement is probably coming from the comparison below: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-compare-logic-apps-ms-flow-webjobs This is all great; however, unlike the Logic Apps which are living their own life somewhere in Azure, Microsoft Flow is a first-class… Read More »
I had a nice validation plugin that used to be working perfectly whenever a record were updated manually. When deactivating a record with a certain status reason, a user would see an error message if some of the conditions were not met. For example, a transaction can’t be completed till the amount field has… Read More »