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Improving Optimization? The traditional steps of Optimization: 1. Eliminate 2. Automate or 3. Delegate What if we added a missing element? Simplify. Before automating a convoluted workflow or delegating a tangled task, strip away the unnecessary. Make processes leaner...
Unit tests for Dataverse plugins? I must admit, I almost never write unit tests for Dataverse plugins. Plugins are often quite simple, testing them in isolation is not particularly useful. Often you only test a couple of if-statements. Unit tests don't bring a lot of...
New Dynamics 365 browser extension I'm trying out the new -Power Roles- extension and it looks very promising. You browse to a Dynamics 365 (or Power Apps) app and then you press -record-. It will then monitor all the action you do in the app and propose which...
SpecFlow: Great concept, flawed execution. SpecFlow, a BDD framework designed to make writing scenarios a breeze for requirement analysts. The problem: It falls short of its promise. β The reality? Analysts rarely, if ever, write the specs themselves. Instead,...
What if...? Production has a Staging slot. Staging or QA environment needs to be the same or as close to production as it can be. Preferably, you want to restore a recent backup πΎ from Production as Staging and then deploy your changes π. Kudos π if you've fully...
UUID v7 coming in .NET 9 For those that didn't know, you can create Guids in different ways (algorithms). System.Guid supports UUID v4 out-of-the-box, the most used version. UUID v7 is now added, which creates Guids based on the current time. This means Guids can be...
Unlock the power of .NET's latest collection types! Here's a guide for when to best use the new Readonly, Immutable, and Frozen collections. You won't believe how it can optimize your code! π 1οΈβ£ Readonly Readonly is a readonly view of the original collection it was...
π‘Tip: Convert FetchXml to a Query expression Have you had a situation where you have a FetchXml query, but you needed to inspect, tweak, or extend it a little? You can load it into a XElement or XDocument and fiddle with it. But you can ask Dataverse to convert your...
Microsoft is going to block unmanaged solutions in Production π« I hear this argument a lot when debating unmanaged vs managed π That MS will do this in the next couple of years. I've heard this for years and it still has not happened π But what would be the benefit...
ReadOnlySet is coming in .NET 9 Say goodbye to issues with IReadOnlySet interface. No more casting back to mutable sets or creating custom read-only sets! The latest Preview 6 version brings this new type. I often prefer ISet above IList in Domain Driven Design. Why?...
For a while now we can use the new Dataverse ServiceClient that replaced the old CrmServiceClient. It has three big improvements: Works for .NET 5.0 and up (.NET Core) Uses the newer MSAL.NET instead of ADAL.NET (which is out of support) for authentication Support for...
Visual Studio only runs on Windows. I hear this argument a lot when comparing C# with other programming languages. I don't understand this argument. First it assumes you need Visual Studio to write C#. You don't. You can also use VS Code or JetBrains Rider. But then...
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