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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

Building a custom UI using AngularJS


Web resources were introduced in Dynamics CRM 2011. One of the reasons for introducing HTML and JavaScript web resources was to get rid of ASPX ISV pages that needed to be deployed on the Dynamics CRM server. An action was not possible in a cloud environment. ISV pages were replaced with custom HTML user interfaces (UI) that can be embedded in iFrames on a form.

As a developer, you have the choice to build your own UI libraries to retrieve content and display it on custom user interfaces, or you can leverage industry standard frameworks that help produce clean, maintainable user interface extensions using proven design patterns. In this recipe, we have selected AngularJS as a popular framework to build a custom web resource to embed in an iFrame. We will focus on Angular version 1, since version 2 is still to gain popularity.

This recipe's custom user interface will leverage the metadata queries discussed in the previous recipe to build a page that displays...