Using FakeXrmEasy for High-Fidelity Unit Testing in Dynamics CRM Plugin Development
Jan 15 · 4 min read · Unit testing Dynamics CRM plugins can become tedious when you rely on fully manual mocks. Each dependency, the organization service, plugin context, tracing, must be simulated by hand, and even the smallest mistake leads to hours of debugging. This i...
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Mastering Early Bound Classes in Dynamics CRM Plugin Development
Jan 15 · 4 min read · When building plugins for Dynamics 365 CRM, developers often start with Late Bound entities. It’s a flexible approach, but flexibility isn’t always your friend. As your project grows, Late Bound code becomes a jungle of string literals, manual consta...
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Automatically Associating Contacts to Accounts Using Email Domain in Dynamics 365/Power Platform : A Step-By-Step Plugin Guide
Jan 8 · 4 min read · When integrating external systems with Dynamics 365, it’s common for new contact records to be created without an associated account. This gap can disrupt hierarchy, reporting, and business processes. A practical and elegant solution is to automatica...
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Dataverse and Azure Synapse Link
Jan 6 · 6 min read · Introduction: If you're involved in the Power Platform and frequently work with configuring Dataverse or Power Apps for Dynamics 365 sales, service, projects, etc., you might have come across a menu item labeled "Azure Synapse Link." This menu option...
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Retrieving Data in Dataverse: SQL (TDS) vs FetchXML
Jan 3 · 4 min read · In Dynamics CRM and Model-Driven App development, working with data is at the heart of everything. In earlier steps, we focused on processing data that already exists inside a plugin’s Target entity. However, real-world plugins often need to retrieve...
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Extending Plugin Logic to Handle Record Updates
Jan 3 · 3 min read · After completing the environment setup, plugin coding, and initial registration, the next important step is ensuring that your plugin logic works not only when a record is created but also when it is updated. At this stage, if you update an existing ...
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Refactoring Plugin Code Using a Boilerplate Helper
Jan 3 · 5 min read · After completing the stages of writing and registering your plugin logic, the final phase of development focuses on refactoring. Refactoring is the practice of improving code quality by making it shorter, cleaner, and easier to maintain, without chan...
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Building Reliable Dynamics CRM/Model Driven App Plugins with Unit Testing
Jan 2 · 5 min read · Unit testing represents the final and most refined stage of the development process. It provides a safe and isolated environment where developers can test their code locally under controlled conditions, without any risk to production systems. You can...
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Dynamics CRM/Model Driven App Plugin Architecture Explained: IPlugin, Boilerplate, and Core Services
Jan 2 · 4 min read · Introduction After covering the practical steps of setting up a project and writing basic plugin logic, it’s important to understand what actually happens under the hood when a Dynamics CRM (Dataverse) plugin runs. This article explains the internal ...
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