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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


DevOps has been a buzz word for quite a few years now. Many platforms have embraced the discipline and integrated it within their development life cycle. Over the years, Dynamics CRM/365 followed the trend and kept the platform modern and up to date. The introductions of solutions in CRM 2011, the introduction of the SolutionPackager and PackageDeployer, and the Microsoft.Xrm.Data.PowerShell extensions are all examples of baby steps to support the DevOps story. Some of these tools were spawned out of the necessity to support new features (for example, AppSource) with Microsoft repurposing some of its own tools for generic reuse by the public.

The recipes in this chapter will cover a few DevOps fundamentals, such as solution exports and imports, bundling configuration data with solutions, source control integration, and deployment orchestration. Stitched together, you will end up with a strong DevOps story to tell.

The following diagram depicts a development life cycle with the...