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Dynamics 365 Application Development

By : Deepesh Somani, Nishant Rana
Book Image

Dynamics 365 Application Development

By: Deepesh Somani, Nishant Rana

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM is the most trusted name in enterprise-level customer relationship management. The latest version of Dynamics CRM comes with the important addition of exciting features guaranteed to make your life easier. It comes straight off the shelf with a whole new frontier of updated business rules, process enhancements, SDK methods, and other enhancements. This book will introduce you to the components of the new designer tools, such as SiteMap, App Module, and Visual Designer for Business Processes. Going deeper, this book teaches you how to develop custom SaaS applications leveraging the features of PowerApps available in Dynamics 365. Further, you will learn how to automate business processes using Microsoft Flow, and then we explore Web API, the most important platform update in Dynamics 365 CRM. Here, you'll also learn how to implement Web API in custom applications. You will learn how to write an Azure-aware plugin to design and integrate cloud-aware solutions. The book concludes with configuring services using newly released features such as Editable grids, Data Export Service, LinkedIn Integration, Relationship Insights, and Live Assist
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Understanding Azure integration with Dynamics 365


Microsoft Azure Service Bus is the main component in Microsoft Azure Stack that enables us to connect Dynamics 365 with Microsoft Azure. Through Azure Service Bus we can pass the details of an operation performed inside Dynamics 365 to multiple applications that are listening to it and can read and process that information.

Introduction to Microsoft Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus can be defined as a cloud messaging service that runs in Microsoft's Azure Data Center. Azure Service Bus enables us to connect different applications, services or devices that are hosted in the cloud or on-Premises inside the firewalled networks. It can be used to connect different line-of-business (LOB) applications, tablets, phones or even any household appliances or sensors. This Azure Service Bus supports two different communication mechanisms: brokered messaging (queues, topics, and subscriptions) and relay service.

The Azure Service Bus brokered messaging...