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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

Introduction


Most customization examples that you will find in books and official articles will mainly focus on the basics to get you started. They seldom delve deeper into how to structure your code for clean code and best practices. Any customization you build--whether using JavaScript, C#, or any other language or framework--should follow best practices. Plugins, for example, can very easily get too large and difficult to maintain if no thought is put into structuring them properly.

In this chapter we will start by refactoring our one class C# plugins into three layers: entry point, business logic, and data access layer (DAL). We will also introduce design patterns, such as dependency injection, singleton, and factory. Most of the enhancements will leverage fundamental object-oriented paradigms including: inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism, among others. A basic understanding of these patterns and paradigms is recommended, but not necessary.

The first recipe is key to the rest...