You might have noticed the run dialog seems to have gone only to be replaced with Cortana, and while Cortana usually does a good job sometimes it returns too much information when you just want to quickly start another application. Fortunately its not really gone just accessed with the keystroke Windows Key + R But […]
Ensuring your Xamarin application runs in a specific screen orientation couldn’t be simpler. In your MainActivity class simply add the following to the [Activity()] Activity attribute. ScreenOrientation.Portrait or ScreenOrientation.Landscape So that the Activity Attribute looks something like this Simple.
The decision to write early or late bound code is often a tricky one. I personally think if you are in an environment that you can control, for example you are an inhouse developer for the company that ‘owns’ CRM then early binding makes sense as you can add a step into your development/deployment pipeline […]
In the previous post I showed how to call an action from javascript using the new features in the V9 javascript api, but in this post I will expand to show how to call the action with some simple parameters. First we need to create an action with some input parameters. In this example the […]
This article follows on from Getting optionset lists to use in a webresource HTML form and Creating an action to call from Javascript in a HTML form and will show how to actually call the action from javascript. In the previous articles we created a simple plugin, and then connected that to an action in Dynamics […]
Following on from my previous Dynamics 365 post about getting optionset data from CRM to use in drop down lists in HTML forms we can use the previous piece of code that created a small workflow plugin. To do this you will need to create an Action in CRM. An action is really just a […]
Sometimes when building a custom HTML form to embed in a CRM form it is a requirement to get one or more sets of optionset values to use in a drop down list. Probably the simplest way to do it is to create a small workflow plugin that will read the values and return them […]
Sometimes a plugin turns out to be a little more complex and needs a third party assembly, or you might be really organised and have an assembly or project in your solution that contains a lot of ready written Dynamics code that you don’t want to spend time copying and pasting into your code each […]
I had a problem with a piece of software I wrote quite a long time ago, when it was first implemented and data volumes were low it worked fine, but as recently the volume of data it is expected to process has grown beyond all expectations, it was time to revisit the code to see […]
Most people seem to use external libraries when decoding JSON returned from web services or other external functions but in .Net .45 there is a native library that works extremely well for most JSON string returned by external services. The functions are included in the System.Web.Helpers library and this must be included for this to […]