Separating Plugin Logic: A Guide to Testing Dataverse Plugins with IOC
I’m not a pure TDD developer. I frequently take my best guess at a Dataverse plugin, then apply TDD until everything works. This c...
1 years ago
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How to Filter Dates in Canvas Apps Using Greater Than/Less Than Operators
Defining the ProblemRecently I was attempting to filter an on-premise SQL table by a DateTime field using a “greater than” operator, and displ...
1 years ago
Enabling or Disabling All Plugin Steps In Dataverse
The CauseRecently a bug (working by design?) with the PowerPlatform.BuildTools version 0.0.81 caused all my plugin steps to become disabled.&n...
1 years ago
Using AutoFixture To Create Early Bound Entities
AutoFixture is an open source library that is used in testing to create objects without having to explicit set all the values. I recentl...
2 years ago
Long Functions Are Always A Code Smell
This article is in response to fellow MVP Alex Shelga’s recent article Long functions in dataverse plugins – is it still ” code smell”?. ...
2 years ago
How To Create Daily Bulk Delete Jobs in Dataverse/CDS/Power Apps/CRM As A Different User
UPDATE! The first statement is a lie! The UI for Dataverse/CDS/Power Apps/CRM bulk delete jobs does allow for creating a reoccurring da...
3 years ago
Setting Sub-Grid FilterXml In The Unified Interface And Other Naughty Things
This post started as a twitter poll where I asked if I should blog about an unsupported solution I developed for a rather unusual business req...
3 years ago
Handle All Your Plugin Exceptions In One Place, And Then Hide It!
One of the simplest to understand, best practice of writing code (outside of maybe limiting # of lines in a method) is don’t create duplicate ...
4 years ago
How To Determine If Your Canvas App Is In Studio Or Play Mode
Sometimes, you want to run different logic if you’re editing a canvas app, vs “playing” a canvas app. There is no out of the box functio...
4 years ago
How To Force Canvas Apps To Update An Edited Component
Frustrations With Updating a ComponentCanvas Apps Components are an experimental feature that allow app creators to define a component that ca...
4 years ago