You might add finally to that title depending on how much you follow the Power Apps Build Tools for Azure DevOps as it has seen some very minor releases since its initial release last September (2019). This long coming update, version 0.3.3, the beta tag in the name is gone, however it still carries PowerApps … Continue reading Power Apps Build Tools for Azure DevOps Gets Updated with Service Principal Connection and Default SDK Versions
Tracing CdsServiceClient in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
If you look into tracing for the old CrmServiceClient and the XRM Tooling you come across documentation which refers to setting some switches in a web.config file. If you have done only modern .NET Core development you might be like web.config what?! With the documentation a little old and if you are using the new … Continue reading Tracing CdsServiceClient in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
CdsServiceClient with ASP.NET Core
One of the major reasons to use the new alpha release of the CDS SDK is that you can use it with the latest version of ASP.NET Core 3.1. Super cool, yes, so how do you add it to your ASP.NET Core project through dependency injection, and how do you add it to ensure that … Continue reading CdsServiceClient with ASP.NET Core
Power Apps Portals Web Form Ideas, Desired Improvements
Having worked with portals for a very long time now there is always a way to get something done even in a world where you can't access the portal code. Be it with some JavaScript, hidden iFrame or the companion app approach. It's great because it can get you to a solution for the business … Continue reading Power Apps Portals Web Form Ideas, Desired Improvements
.NET Core CDS SDK Alpha Availability
At long last a version of the CDS SDK is available with .NET Core 3.0 and 3.1 as target frameworks! This release marks a lot of significant change as well with the SDK to align with how CDS and Dynamics are marketed and sold. Gone are the days of XRM and CRM, welcome to the … Continue reading .NET Core CDS SDK Alpha Availability
The End of xRM Portals Community Edition with WS-Trust / OrganizationServiceProxy Deprecation?
Deprecation of WS-Trust authentication and OrganizationServiceProxy spells the end of Adxstudio Portals with online instances if you were somehow still using it. xRM Portals Community Edition using username/password authentication with online instances of Dynamics 365 will also be dead in the water but xRM Portals does support Server-to-Server (S2S) auth. But I doubt anyone is … Continue reading The End of xRM Portals Community Edition with WS-Trust / OrganizationServiceProxy Deprecation?
CDS/CRM SDK – WS-Trust auth and OrganizationServiceProxy Deprecated, what does it mean?
Announced late last week on docs.microsoft.com was the deprecation of the WS-Trust authentication type as well as OrganizationServiceProxy. Both are connected to the same thing of the WS-Trust authentication being moved away from for a long time now in other Microsoft SDKs and the CDS/CRM SDK is catching up as they modernize the authentication for … Continue reading CDS/CRM SDK – WS-Trust auth and OrganizationServiceProxy Deprecated, what does it mean?
Configuration Migration Tool Filter Updates and the Power Apps Portal
If you haven't heard or seen the most recent update to the SDK tool Configuration Migration Tool (CMT) then it is a must check out as the latest version of the tool includes filtering capaibility as Alan Mervitz (@amervitz) noticed on Twitter and has documented on his blog. This feature in CMT has been long … Continue reading Configuration Migration Tool Filter Updates and the Power Apps Portal
Power Apps Environment Variables Preview Limitation/Bug with Managed Solutions
Power Apps environment variables a recently launched preview functionality that provide a way containing a dictionary set within a solution look to have a bit of a bug or undocumented limitation with managed solutions currently in the preview you should be aware of. If you add an environment variable to a solution, including or not … Continue reading Power Apps Environment Variables Preview Limitation/Bug with Managed Solutions
Inject PowerApps Environment Variables into Entity Record Data
PowerApps Environment Variables, a new solution component that provides a great way to transport a definition, default value and override value used in configuration. This provides a lot of opportunity as configuration based in data with a solution was always really complex to do. It solves a great problem but how else can it be … Continue reading Inject PowerApps Environment Variables into Entity Record Data
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