This post may have no practical meaning, really. Well, except, maybe, that the next time somebody tells you “Organization Service has been deprecated” you can say confidently that the rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated. I used to think that the Organization Service is going away, it’s getting replaced by Web API,… Read More »
Sometimes, all we need from a subgrid is to show us the list of checkboxes. For instance, imagine an inspection entity. A vehicle inspection maybe… Every inspection would have a list of standard inspection items associated with it. If only there were an easy way to check off all those items quickly. Of course… Read More »
I like the unified interface. I did not like it when it was introduced originally, but I don’t mind it at all the way it is now. One thing I used to not like that much about the navigation in the recent versions of Dynamics is that whenever I clicked a lookup it would just… Read More »
While creating a PCF control I realized at some point that building and packaging it is taking time. More importantly, it’s taking time from the developer – I don’t mind if my laptop spent some time doing all the deployment, but why would I want to also baby sit this powerful machine? So, basically,… Read More »
I was curious to see what writing an actual custom PowerApps component using the PowerApps Component Framework (PCF) would look like, but, up until a few days ago, there was always something in the way. Now that I finally got some hands-on experience, it seems there are a few things which I wanted to… Read More »
In case you were wondering what that “stage for upgrade” option means and why is it there in the first place: It’s all about deleting components from the managed solutions. The ALM whitepaper actually does a good job describing this feature, though there is a lot of other content in that document, so “stage… Read More »
If you have not looked at the EasyRepro yet, you probably should: https://github.com/microsoft/EasyRepro I wrote a post about EasyRepro before with some explanations of how it works, so this may also be helpful: https://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics-crm/easy-repro-what-is-it/ Now, I am not sure if Microsoft is “all in” on making PowerApps development a primarily dev-only activity, but, at… Read More »
Earlier today, we got a strange request from the user who was wondering what would be the reason he kept getting an error message? Indeed, we knew he should not be getting that error. Although, after looking into it, we found that there was a form the user was working on, it was a regular… Read More »
A lot of TypeScript tutorials are available online, so I was looking for one recently and, it seems, this one is really good IF you are familiar with some other language already: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/typescript So, while working through it, I noticed a few things which might strike you as being somewhat unusual if you are… Read More »
The more I’m looking into the PowerApps Component Framework, the more obvious it becomes that the era of “do-it-all”-ers in Dynamics/PowerApps might be coming to an end. Although, it’s not just the PCF that’s making me say this. I turned to Dynamics some time ago since I did not want to stick to pure development… Read More »