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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a powerful tool. It has many unique features that empower organisations to bridge common business challenges and technology pitfalls that would usually hinder the adoption of a CRM solution. This book sets out to enable you to harness the power of Dynamics 365 and cater to your unique circumstances. We start this book with a no-code configuration chapter and explain the schema, fields, and forms modeling techniques. We then move on to server-side and client-side custom code extensions. Next, you will see how best to integrate Dynamics 365 in a DevOps pipeline to package and deploy your extensions to the various SDLC environments. This book also covers modern libraries and integration patterns that can be used with Dynamics 365 (Angular, 3 tiers, and many others). Finally, we end by highlighting some of the powerful extensions available. Throughout we explain a range of design patterns and techniques that can be used to enhance your code quality; the aim is that you will learn to write enterprise-scale quality code.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Modularity


Dynamics 365 was marketed as a set of modular components that can be purchased individually or as part of a plan.

At its new launch, the product offered sales, customer service, field service, project automation, marketing, and operations (previously known as Dynamics AX) modules as part of its enterprise edition. Module's business capabilities were discussed in Appendix A, Architectural Views. Additionally, a small to medium business (SMB) edition was introduced, which offers a similar bundle with less modules, limited capabilities, and a finance module instead of the operations one (previously known as Dynamics NAV).

In addition to the Dynamics module mentioned earlier, Microsoft also offers PowerApps and Flow as add-ons to the platform. PowerApps provides easy-to-build mobile extensions to the platform that integrate straight with Dynamics 365 or through the Common Data Services (CDS) using Flow (we covered integration recipes in Chapter 9, Dynamics 365 Extensions).

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