Visual Studio 2017 - Dynamics 365 SDK cant connect to server
1. I downloaded the Developer extensions and the developer toolkit. (vsix for dynamics)2. Updated the manifest with the version 15 instead of the 14.3. Got both installations completed 4. Instead of...
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I’ve been working a lot with Azure DevOps recently to automate Dynamics 365 CE deployments. One of the first things I noticed was that using the hosted build agents resulted in slower builds than I was...
View ArticleAzure DevOps D365 Build & Test Agent Using An Azure Container Instance –...
What was I hoping to accomplish by doing this?Working with Azure DevOps build and release pipelines can be a slow and tedious process, even more so using the hosted agents that are provided. I find it...
View ArticleAzure DevOps D365 Build & Test Agent Using An Azure Container Instance –...
In Part 1 I covered the reasoning for choosing a container and the performance gains that resulted in the build process. Creating the container imageI’m not the first person to think of using a...
View ArticleAzure DevOps D365 Build & Test Agent Using An Azure Container Instance –...
Part 1 covered the reasoning for choosing a container and the performance gains that resulted in the build process.Part 2 reviewed the components that were chosen to be installed to support the build...
View ArticleGet Latest Solution Patch Name With PowerShell
Someone might find this useful if trying to move solutions around using Azure DevOps & PowerShell. I wanted to automate export of the latest solution patch using the Microsoft.Xrm.Data.Powershell...
View ArticleUsing Chocolatey to Distribute Developer Tools - Part 1
First off, what is Chocolatey? Chocolatey is a package manager for applications. So NuGet for Windows quite literally as the package formats are the same. There’s one or more repositories (again it’s...
View ArticleUsing Chocolatey to Distribute Developer Tools - Part 2
This is going to focus on the Chocolatey package set up and the code used to build updated packages. Project structureA single git repository which contains folders for each package / application /...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 - Dynamics 365 SDK cant connect to server
1. I downloaded the Developer extensions and the developer toolkit. (vsix for dynamics)2. Updated the manifest with the version 15 instead of the 14.3. Got both installations completed 4. Instead of...
View ArticleUsing Chocolatey to Distribute Developer Tools - Part 3
This is going to focus on setting up Azure DevOps to host the NuGet package feed and keeping the packages up to date. In case you missed the other posts in this series, part 1 provided an overview of...
View ArticleConnect Dynamics CRM to Asp.Net Core 2.0
Can anyone refer me to documentation that shows how to connect an Asp.Net Core App to CRM online?Things I found based on my research: Web Api seems to be a logical way to get/query data from CRM.I...
View ArticleCall an external Web Service from Plugin - Dynamics crm ONLINE
Hi all.I'm facing a Permission error when i try to call an external WebService from my plugin.Notes:1. The web service was developed by another company and they said that they could not put a friendly...
View ArticleRun Your Automated D365 CE UI Tests From Azure DevOps
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View ArticleDynamics 365 Trial
Hi,Hopefully someone can help - I have registered for a Dynamics 365 trial version - I was hoping to explore creating workflows etc - but I am not an administrator so can't do this. When I try to...
View ArticleHow to extend the timeout on preview when hovering over fields in IE11?
Is there any way to extend the period a field's contents (ie not Label/Description) are displayed on mouseover please? We use CRM 2013 on premises via IE 11. Currently the preview fades after around 5...
View ArticleLog Azure DevOps Build Times to Application Insights
I’ve been working a lot with Azure DevOps recently to automate Dynamics 365 CE deployments. One of the first things I noticed was that using the hosted build agents resulted in slower builds than I was...
View ArticleAzure DevOps D365 Build & Test Agent Using An Azure Container Instance –...
What was I hoping to accomplish by doing this?Working with Azure DevOps build and release pipelines can be a slow and tedious process, even more so using the hosted agents that are provided. I find it...
View ArticleAzure DevOps D365 Build & Test Agent Using An Azure Container Instance –...
In Part 1 I covered the reasoning for choosing a container and the performance gains that resulted in the build process. Creating the container imageI’m not the first person to think of using a...
View ArticleAzure DevOps D365 Build & Test Agent Using An Azure Container Instance –...
Part 1 covered the reasoning for choosing a container and the performance gains that resulted in the build process.Part 2 reviewed the components that were chosen to be installed to support the build...
View ArticleGet Latest Solution Patch Name With PowerShell
Someone might find this useful if trying to move solutions around using Azure DevOps & PowerShell. I wanted to automate export of the latest solution patch using the Microsoft.Xrm.Data.Powershell...
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