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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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Packaging your solution with configuration data using PackageDeployer


The PackageDeployer executable was introduced with the Dynamics CRM 2013 SDK.

PackageDeployer allows us to import one or more solutions to Dynamics 365 and can bundle configuration data, as well as custom code execution, all in one augmented package.

The easiest way to create a new package is to use the integrated Visual Studio Dynamics 365 Package solution template (demonstrated in this recipe). At the core of the process is an XML file that contains all the deployment directives.

Note

The PackageDeployer solution has some significance in the Dynamics 365 ecosystem. In Chapter 9, Dynamics 365 Extensions, we will cover Dynamics 365 AppSource applications. Behind the scenes, all AppSource deployments actually use the PackageDeployer code base to get deployed into your Dynamics 365 instance.

We will cover how to install a solution along with some reference data using PackageDeployer in this recipe.

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