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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

Extending CrmSvcUtil with filtering


As described in Creating early bound entity classes, CrmSvcUtil is a great utility to generate early bound entities that improve your development productivity.

CrmSvcUtil, as it is, generates all entities associated with a Dynamics 365 instance. The generated file is usually quite large and onerous to inspect. In this recipe, we will write a small extension to only generate early bound classes for custom entities that have a prefix of our choice, in this example, the packt_ prefix (our Dynamics 365 publisher prefix).

Getting ready

In order to create the extension, you will need an IDE such as Visual Studio with .NET 4.5.2, a reference to the Microsoft.CrmSdk.CoreAssemblies NuGet package, and a reference to the CrmSvcUtil.exe executable.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new Visual Studio solution called Packt.Xrm.CrmSvcUtilExensions with a project of type class library.
  2. Using the NuGet package manager, install the latest version of Microsoft.CrmSdk.CoreAssemblies that...