Dependent Assemblies with Power Platform Tools

In late July, Microsoft announced the preview of Dependent Assemblies, which would allow the ability to register individual assemblies, and upload a nuget package that contains both the plugin assembly and the dependent assembly. Previously, the only way this was available was the use of the ILMerge tool to manually merge dependent assemblies.

Dependent Assemblies with Plugin Registration Tool

In late July, Microsoft announced the preview of Dependent Assemblies, which would allow the ability to register individual assemblies, and upload a nuget package that contains both the plugin assembly and the dependent assembly. Previously, the only way this was available was the use of the ILMerge tool to manually merge dependent assemblies.

Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio

The Power Platform Tools for Visual Studio provide the ability to quickly create, debug and deploy plugings. There are some other capabilities that are still currently in preview, such as the deployment of custom workflow activities, web resources and other integration components.

Using Microsoft Multiselect Lookup in your Model Driven Apps – Part II

In the last blog post, I demonstrated how to use the Microsoft Multiselect Lookup control (similar to the Activity Party control), which was released as part of an update to Field Services to add new values to a backend many to many relationship. In this post, I am going to extend this further to show how to add and remove items from the multiselect control, and have them get updated in the relationship.

Using Microsoft Multiselect Lookup in your Model Driven Apps

Earlier last year (September timeframe), Microsoft released a Multiselect Lookup control (similar to the Activity Party control) as part of an update to Field Services. The control does not seem to be available across the entire spectrum yet, but if you have a Field Services License or an Enterprise license, you should be able to use this control across your Dataverse environment.

CRUD Support for Virtual Tables

It seems like this was only a few days ago, but based on the sample that was published by Microsoft it’s been almost 2 weeks since Microsoft released CRUD support on Virtual tables.

No-Code Solution for custom Change Log using Web Hooks and Cloud Flows

In one of our recent requirements, we had to log changes to certain fields in a few different entities. Since we needed the value of the field before and after the change, the logical option was to use plugins and adding a pre-image step to it in order to save that data.

Configure Azure Service Bus to integrate between CDS and On-Premise SQL database

In this blog post I will demonstrate how to use Azure Service Bus and a Listener application to integrate between the Common Data Service (Dynamics 365 or Power Apps Model Driven Application) and an On Premise SQL Service database.

Global Cloning functionality for Dynamics 365

Recently I had a requirement to provide cloning capabilities for one of the projects that I was working on. It wasn’t so simple as to just clone an individual record, but also provide the ability to clone the relationships.