Validating your Azure templates manually can be a challenging task to complete at scale. Fortunately, with the functionality available within Azure Pipelines, this entire process can be fully automated. This post will show you just how easy it is to implement automatic validation an deployment of your Azure templates within a CI process.
Getting your Azure Board backlog working correctly may require some tinkering, particularly if you decide to take advantage of certain features after you have begun using the application. In this post, I'll show you how to get the Team Board/Backlog configured to show work items from all sub-areas within your project.
The introduction of Azure Data Factory V2 represents the most opportune moment for data integration specialists to start investing their time in the product. Version 1 (V1) of the tool, which I started taking a look at last year, missed a lot of critical functionality that - in most typical circumstances - I could do [...]
A vital part of any DevOps automation activity is to facilitate automatic builds of code projects on regular cycles. In larger teams, this becomes particularly desirable for a multitude of reasons: Provides a means of ensuring that builds do not contain any glaring code errors that prevent a successful compile from taking place. Enables builds [...]
Typically, when working with Dynamics 365 for Customer Service entities, you expect a certain type of behaviour. A good example of this in practice is entity record activation and the differences between Active and Inactive record types. In simple terms, you are generally restricted in the actions that can be performed against an Inactive record, most [...]
This is an accompanying blog post to my YouTube video Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Deep Dive: Creating a Basic Custom Workflow Assembly. The video is part of my tutorial series on how to accomplish developer focused tasks within Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement. You can watch the video in full below: https://youtu.be/0r02M71U140 Below you will find [...]
When working with web applications and Azure App Service, it may sometimes be necessary to delete or remove files from a website. Whether it is a deprecated feature or a bit of development "junk" that was accidentally left on your website, these files can often introduce processing overhead or even security vulnerabilities if left unattended. [...]
This is an accompanying blog post to my YouTube video Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Deep Dive: Creating a Basic Plug-in, the second in a series aiming to provide tutorials on how to accomplish developer focused tasks within Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement. You can watch the video in full below: https://youtu.be/y0SgyieGYU8 Below you will find links to [...]
This is an accompanying blog post to my YouTube video Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Deep Dive: Creating a Basic Jscript Form Function, the first in a series that aims to provide tutorials on how to accomplish developer focused tasks within Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement. You can watch the video in full below: https://youtu.be/smZyMwQjgpM Below you will [...]
Did you know that you can write Plug-ins for Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement/Dynamics CRM (D365CE/CRM) using Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET)? You wouldn't have thought so after a thorough look through the D365CE/CRM Software Development Kit (SDK). Whilst there is a plethora of code examples available for C# plug-ins, no examples are provided on how to [...]