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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 (12 chapters)

Building near real-time integration with Azure Service Bus


In the previous recipe, we mainly used configuration to connect Dynamics 365 to an Azure Service Bus. If you want to implement a custom plugin code before communicating with the Service Bus, or if you want to send something other than the plugin context, you can create your own Azure aware plugin.

In this recipe, we will augment an existing custom plugin's capabilities to also connect to an Azure Service Bus. We will reuse the plugin built in Creating your first plugin recipe of Chapter 4, Server-Side Extensions, as the basis of our work.

Getting ready

Using NuGet in Visual Studio, you will need to retrieve the usual Dynamics 365 assemblies. Alternatively, you can try to source the DLL manually from the SDK. Refer to the Creating your first plugin recipe in Chapter 4, Server-Side Extensions for details.

Your plugin requires a register service endpoint in your Dynamics 365 instance. We can reuse the endpoint created in the previous recipe...