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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

Chapter 6. Extending Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015

In this chapter, we are going to extend the CRM's capabilities by writing custom plug-ins, workflows, and actions. We will learn the complete details of plug-in development with code samples. We will also be discussing how to create custom workflow assemblies and using input and output arguments to pass data to custom workflows. Finally, we will be creating custom messages using actions and we will learn how to use actions in workflows and plug-ins.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction to plug-ins

  • Synchronous versus asynchronous plug-ins

  • Understanding plug-in event execution pipelines

  • Writing sample plug-ins

  • Understanding plug-in registration

  • Understanding iPlug-inExecutionContext

  • Applying validation using plug-ins

  • Passing parameters to plug-ins

  • Troubleshooting plug-ins

  • Working with custom workflows

  • Working with actions