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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Application Design

By : Mahender Pal
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Application Design

By: Mahender Pal

Overview of this book

<p>Businesses can have their developers build complete apps or plug-ins and interfaces to suit their business needs. With the application of MS CRM, administrators can alter the content, layout, and business logic for each business use case. Businesses can choose to run Dynamics CRM on their own internal server or to link to web-hosted installations. This book is an enhanced guide that covers all the new features released with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015. Coming straight off the shelf with a whole new frontier of updated business rules, process enhancements, SDK methods, and other enhancements, this book is a complete guide for all your Dynamics CRM questions.</p> <p>Starting off, this book will introduce you to the deployment options such as online and on-premise, and the software and hardware requirements as CRM customization. It will also teach you how to develop a sample application.</p> <p>Going deeper, this book teaches you about the new enhancements in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 such as business process, new client-side scripting, mobile application, and actions enhancements. You will quickly get up and running with plugin development and project tracking concepts with the help of sample applications.</p> <p>The book concludes with how Microsoft Dynamics CRM extends its mobile capabilities and bring more feature-rich experience to the app users.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Application Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding processes


Automation is a critical requirement for any business application. Every business has predefined business activities that they want to automate. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 helps us to automate our business-specific requirements using different types of processes.

Workflows are based on a Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) framework; this provides the required framework for writing workflows. It basically includes the run time engine, which is responsible for the overall process execution.

Note

Refer to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/versustudio/ms734631%28v=versus.90%29.aspx for more details on Windows Workflow Foundation.

Workflow can be set up as synchronous or asynchronous. Asynchronous processes help us to run our automation in the background. Asynchronous processes work with the asynchronous queue manager, which is responsible for the execution of asynchronous processes based on event execution order. They can be executed after a short delay or can take...