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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

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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.
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Retrieving data from external resources using external libraries


In this recipe, we will extend Dynamics 365 online to access external resources; more specifically, we will be reading data from a RESTful feed. The results will be retrieved in a JSON format and require an external .NET library to easily manipulate the JSON stream. We will implement the external connection within the account update plugin created in the Creating your first plugin recipe in Chapter 4, Server-Side Extensions.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need access to a publicly available RESTful service of your choice. We will be using the freely available service at https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com.

In order to easily manipulate the JSON results, we will use an external library called Json.NET by Newtonsoft. The library provides serialization, deserialization, and parsing capabilities between JSON and .NET objects. This lightweight library will save us a significant amount of unnecessary development. For more...

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