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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

Profiling your plugin


In this recipe we will demonstrate how to capture a plugin execution context from an online execution and replay it locally using the plugin registration tool so that we can debug from Visual Studio.

Getting ready

Given that we will be debugging an existing customization, you will need an already registered plugin in your Dynamics 365 instance, along with its corresponding plugin step. In our example, we will be using the first plugin created in this book from the Creating your first plugin recipe in Chapter 4, Server-Side Extensions.

You will also need a compatible version of Visual Studio. Additionally, you will need your plugin code to attach your IDE to the plugin registration tool process and debug the execution.

Most of the work will be done from the plugin registration tool. You can find the tool under the Dynamics 365 SDK <SDK Folder>\Tools\PluginRegistration folder. In order to push your changes to Dynamics 365, you will need a System Customizer role or a...