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Translations in Power BI PRO

For some time, semantic model translations in Power BI were only available for Power BI Premium capacities. However, this has changed, and now translations also work with a Power BI Pro license. Microsoft provides very detailed documentation on localizing reports: Localizing Power BI Reports I highly recommend going through it.

Solution Layering in Power Apps – The Hidden pitfalls of deployments

Issue Have you ever deployed a solution to your test or production environment and found that your changes aren’t visible? There can be multiple problems causing this issue. Today, we are going to focus on one of the most common scenarios: an active unmanaged layer. If not properly addressed,

Snowflake Git Integration with Azure DevOps

Git repository for Business Intelligence solutions is a hot topic, especially for SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platforms like Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake or Databricks. While in Fabric setup for Git repository in Azure DevOps is relatively simple and it gives you connection in both ways (you can commit changes from Fabric UI), in

Recycle Bin in Dataverse

Finally, the long-awaited feature is now available in sandbox environments – a record recycle bin. There have been many cases, when users deleted some records by mistake and it wasn’t possible to recover them. Now, it will be possible to enable the recycle bin and store such records for a

Graph API Sharepoint Operations

Microsoft provides Grap API to interact and work with Office 365 and Microsoft Cloud services. It allows to upload files, create and manage folders and use other services programmaticaly. In this article, I will show you how to perform basic operations on it using C#.   To start, you need to

CreateMultiple and UpdateMultiple plugins performance

CreateMultiple and UpdateMultiple are currently recommended request types for executing bulk operations on multiple rows of Dataverse tables. They have some limitations described in the product documentation, but according to Microsoft guidelines, they provide the best performance for creating or updating a mass amount of Dataverse records. One of the

Data Migration – How to migrate exchange rate in multicurrency systems

There are still some customers that use some older, on-premise Dynamics version. Sooner or later, they might decide to migrate their system to the newer version. In such scenarios, apart from migrating schema and functionality, data needs to be migrated. In most cases, we use SSIS Packages with KingswaySoft SSIS

Setting up connections references with with Azure DevOps pipeline

Power Automate Flows has become one of the most popular tools for data flow automation and building simple integrations between Dataverse-based applications and other services in the last few years. Power Automate (named “Microsoft Flow” in the past) was designed as a tool for citizen developers to create simple automations

Dataverse plugins test automations with FakeXrmEasy Pipeline Simulator

The value of creating unit tests in the development process no longer needs to be explained to anyone. Implementing and running automated tests as a part of the development process has also been adopted in the world of Power Platform pro-code extensions. Another area of testing automation, which I believe

Dynamics 365 Tooling – Object of type ‘Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Entity’ cannot be converted to type ‘Type’

I think that most of you who are writing applications connecting to Dynamics 365 already wrote thousands of some similar code: It’s simply connecting to Dynamics 365 using connection string and querying contacts. Connection string looks like that: <connectionStrings> <add name=”D365″ connectionString=”Url=https://organization.

Multi-language JavaScript messages in Dynamics 365 9.0 using RESX files

One of the not-so-shiny-and-mentioned-on-twitter-and-blogs feature of Dynamics 365 9.0 is simplification of localization of Web Resources. If you have ever worked on a international Dynamics CRM project, which required multiple Language Packs and not all users were using the same language, you probably had some difficulties when trying to

PoC – speech to text notes in Dynamics 365

In case you did not notice that yet, Dynamics 365 9.0 ships features that will allow developers to achieve really powerful custom components, working across all D365-supported devices. Unified Interface – as its name suggests – works pretty much the same on all devices, which means that we are no longer

Creating empty XRM Environment in PowerApps

If you are following the latest news regarding Dynamics 365 ecosystem, you are probably aware of the fact that Microsoft decided to put everything upside down, change the naming of every technology and use the old names with some new things. Of course I’m exaggerating a little here, but

Dynamics 365 Server-side validation

Defining required and optional fields are always an important part of every Dynamics 365 project that I have ever worked on. Have you ever thought properly about the server-side validation on that matter? From my experience, Dynamics CRM Customizers/Developers usually just create fields with proper value in  “Field requirement”

Dynamics 365 9.0 Client-side navigation

In Dynamics 365 there has been a serious re-arrangement of all the namespaces and methods available for client-side scripting. If you are not aware of that already, please take some time to digest the following article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/get-started/whats-new/customer-engagement/important-changes-coming There are many changes,

How to create an activity attachment using WebApi in Dynamics 365

Very short post today – just wanted to share with you a piece of code which you can use to create an attachment for any activity in Dynamics 365. This is different from normal attachments, because you are not doing this by adding Annotation, rather ActivityMimeAttachment object. It’s important to

What’s coming for Developers in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement 9.0

Dynamics 365 9.0 is going to introduce many changes for us developers. I would like to share with you my thoughts and hopes regarding the newest version of Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement. Virtual entities This feature was announced quite some time ago and it’s great that it’s

Query Builder Error when exporting solution in Dynamics 365

Solutions in Dynamics 365 are very useful and there is no doubt about that. One of the latest features is possibility to add single fields, views or forms to the solution, not the whole entity with all its dependencies. That allows us to better control what is transferred and deployed

List of undocumented SDK messages in Dynamics 365

I believe that very often, searching for a clue if something can be done in Dynamics 365, you can stumble upon some Message that is not documented in Microsoft Dynamics 365 SDK, but works perfectly fine (like for example ExportToExcel message). I decided to prepare a list of all those

Dynamics 365 – Create SharePoint folders without GUID

If you have ever come across the problem that Dynamics CRM out-of-the-box documents integration creates SharePoint folders with GUID appended to the record name, you probably wonder if this can be disabled in a supported way. The answer is – yes it can, but you cannot do it using CRM Web

Making use of transactions in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

I believe that if you have ever written a CRM plugin, you are aware of the event execution pipeline (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg327941.aspx) and that the operation is run in transaction which means that if there will be any exception, the whole transaction will be rolled

Creating early-bounds manually

Wait, what? Who on earth would do such terrible thing? For those of you who are not aware of that (are there any?), there is a great tool included inside SDK binaries, which is called “crmsvcutil.exe” and allows to generate proxy classes that can be used for calling Dynamics

Solution Component types in Dynamics 365

CRM 2016 brought one great improvement – possibility to choose what subcomponents we want to include in the solution. We can choose single fields, views or relationships for an entity. Previously when an entity has been added to a solution, all its subcomponents were automatically added to this solution. This great

Disable columns in Dataverse editable grid

Editable grids are a long awaited feature of Dynamics 365. Without any fancy coding, they allow to provide users a nice and easy to use interface, for updating multiple records in an Excel-like experience. We can easily create a subgrid on the form, configure it to use an Editable grid

Using early bounds in plugin for multiple entities

Recently I was caught up in the discussion about early bound entities and late bound entities. One of the argument of the “late bound supporters” was the fact, that using late-bound allows reusing the same plugin for multiple entities (so for example create a plugin that runs for all activities