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Managed Identities are the natural evolution of service principals because they completely eliminate the need to manage and store secrets.
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Power Platform CICD Evolution
Why CI/CD and ALM? We need CI/CD and ALM in Power Platform to move from ad‑hoc manual exports/imports to predictable, governed delivery.
PowerFx Data Query Grouping
Grouping Example // Does not work ClearCollect( colEmployeesGrouped, ForAll( Distinct(colEmployees, Department), With( { ...
Join Tables in PowerFX
History Back in the old dates, for plugins depend on 3rd party assemblies, we need to do an ILmerge but it will mess up with debugging.
Join Tables in PowerFX
Nested Galleries Multiple Gallery will lead to multiple scrolls in the 2nd level which is nasty.
PCF cheat sheat
Install the PAC CLI Tool Install the PAC CLI tool for both the VS Code and Command Prompt for Windows
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How to get input and output to and from PCF
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Background FakeXrmEasy made unit tests D365 really easy.
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PCF Debug
Debug method Debugging with local testing harness npm start or npm start watch
OpenAI Series: Prompt - Harnessing Generative AI to Solve Complex Problems
OpenAI Series: Prompt - Harnessing Generative AI to Solve Complex Problems
Mastering Azure DevOps Pipelines
Mastering Azure DevOps Pipelines: Common Tasks for Developers”
Mastering Configuration Values Management in Azure Functions
Mastering Configuration Values Management in Azure Functions
Dependency Injection in Azure Functions: A Comprehensive Guide
Dependency Injection in Azure Functions: A Comprehensive Guide
Roles Inherited by Team Membership and Operation Context
The Evolution and Significance of Roles Inherited by Team Membership in Dynamics 365
Understanding Azure AD B2C Custom Policies
Understanding Azure AD B2C Custom Policies: A Comprehensive Guide
OpenAI Integration via Azure Function Apps
Overcoming Challenges with OpenAI Integration Whether you are building a Single Page Application (SPA) and seeking to leverage the powerful features of OpenA...
Pack Multiple PCF Controls in a Single Solution
Introduction If you followed Microsoft documentation Create your first component, you will create one solution file per PCF control. However, in some scenari...
PCF 101 - The Missing Manual
Introduction Microsoft documentation is a great source of learning but still need more transaltion for less experienced developers.
Azure Functions Deep Dive: Entry Points, the Startup Class, and Alternatives
Azure Function App Entry Point common tasks happen in the entry point of an Azure Function App?
Getting started with Azure AD B2C: A Tale of User Flows, Custom Policies, and WeChat Integration
Quick Start Nothing better than starting with sample. Here are some best AAD B2C samples custom policy resources I found so far:
NoSQL CosmosDB MongoDB Learning Notes
Why NoSQL? Traditional SQL databases are good at processing complex queries very efficiently. However, when it comes to the 3V (Volume, Velocity, Variety), w...
Ignite 2022 Power Platform Announcement Highlights
Power Pages GA Power Pages as a standalone Power Platform product is now GA. It is a new member to a family of Power Platform products, including Power Apps,...
Dynamics 365 CE File Column Scenario: Folder File Tree Structure
Scenario Background As a resource company, my clients are other businesses in the supply chain. I need to exchange documents with them. For example, I need t...
Azure Logging TelemetryClient vs ILogger
Summary TelemetryClient is more feature rich comparing to ILogger. However, it depends on Microsoft Azure Application Insights. So, your logging code will no...
Consume 21Vianet Dataverse Web API Using MSAL
Overall The layers between a consumer client application and Dataverse Web API are: A client application. An Azure AD App Registration. A Dataverse Ap...
Post Custom Message to Azure Service Bus
Service Endpoints and Azure-aware Plugins Service endpoints allow you to send Dynamics 365 plugin execution context to Azure Service Bus, Topic, or Event Hub.
Setup XrmToolBox Connection for Azure China Hosted Dataverse
Connect XrmToolBox to a 21Vianet hosted Dataverse instance The XrmToolBox Connection Wizard didn’t work when I connected to a Dataverse instance hosted on 21...
Flow HTTP Request Trigger Condition
Scenario I want to be able to trigger an Power Automate cloud flow from an external HTTP call. I also want to restrict on who can call the cloud flow. The fl...
Git Practical Beginner’s Guide
Branching Strategy/Model/Flow GitFlow is a popular git flow strategy. It is a solid start point and can work with CI/CD flows well.
FakeXrmEasy Introduction
Why We all know the importance of unit tests to the quality of software. D365 plugins are housed inside plugin pipelines and supported by plugin context. It ...
CI/CD 10,000-Feet Overview
GitFlow GitFlow is a popular way of manage code branches. It is a solid start point and can work with CI/CD flows well.
Dynamics 365 IFD ADFS and external IdPs
The Problem Enterprises with an existing centralised (non-Microsoft) Identify Provider (IdP) may frown upon the idea of introducing another new ADFS based Id...
Storage Emulator
Error Cannot create database ‘AzureStorageEmulatorDb510’ : The database ‘AzureStorageEmulatorDb510’ does not exist.
Dynamics 365 OAuth 2.0 Authentication with a Service Principal
In a nutshell, the goal is to get a security token from Azure AD via OAuth 2.0 protocal.
Session Aware Azure Service Bus Binding for Azure Functions
The Pain Point Data integration layer comes in many shapes and forms. Sometimes the data you are integrating is transactional in nature. In that scenario, th...
Dynamics 365 Data Synchronization with Azure Data Factory
People’s Republic of China government rolled out a cyber security law in July 2017. It forced my client to localize their data storage for their Chinese resi...
Dynamics 365 IE 11 supportability
At the end of building a solution, everything was working. Then someone mentioned IE11, I felt a visceral punch.
2019 Novel Corona Virus Cases Power BI Report
This report is based a dataset published by Johns Hopkins University. You may experience a delay when the report initiates from a cold start. Incomplated dat...
Push Dynamics 365 Editable Subgrids To Do UX Tricks
Background Imagine you are making a small solution enhancement for a commercial real estate management company. The company sale people need to come up with ...
No Sandbox Worker processes are currently available
Our tester reported the following error logged in a Dynamics 365 online instance multiple times and it is a blocker. The Dynamics 365 instance consists of a ...
Ansible DevOps Study Notes
Ansible is a popular choice of DevOps tools.
OCR ID Card Detection in a Dynamics 365 Native Mobile App
The Final Results Mobile devices are born with cameras, microphones and other sensors. With a ‘Dynamics 365 for phones’ app in your palm, will it be cool if ...
Actionable Message in Outlook
The first time I saw an Actionable Message in Outlook is from an email from Approvals of Power Automates (formerly MS Flow).
Dynamics Products Evolution
With the landing of Dynamics 365 Online (Mooncake) in China, the new and old product names are used interchangeably. The table below maps the old product nam...
Kelvin Bytes News Letter: Marketing Eco-systems in China
Cover Story: Marketing Eco-systems in China What are the same? The marketing concepts are the same in China or not, for example, marketing segmentation, conv...
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Announcement: A New Perspective
Sorry guys, I haven’t posted in the last four months or so. It is because I relocated myself from New Zealand to China. I am still having a base in New Zeala...
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