Tricks

When creating a ci/cd pipeline for your project, at some point you have to define a connection to your environment. In case of Dataverse, the connection string will contain clientid and client secret values. It's always a good idea to store secret values in a secure place, instead of putting them in clear text into your pipeline definition file (yaml) and potentially pushing them into your code repository.

Azure DevOps provides you a number of possible solutions to address just that:

Session timeout setting with D365 : An article that describes this new setting that could help you to improve security.

Wondering how to use last up to date Dynamics 365 SDK Tool with PowerShell ? PLease read this trick

Dataverse : Multi-Table lookups or Polymorphic lookups is a GREAT feature that all of us are waiting since years ! Let's take a look on how to configure it and how it works.

When working with CRM Package Deployer, it always does an "Upgrade" process while importing a new solution. Please check out this post to find out more about the different solution update processes:

https://dynamics-chronicles.com/article/alm-and-dynamics-365-solutions-explanation

PCF : Input Formater Regex 

Introduction

Launched in 2020, PowerApps component framework rapidly changed the entire way to use the Power Platform. In this article, we will take a look into the Input Formatter with Regular Expression PCF!

Developped by Shriram Pophali, this PCF enables to have a variety of controls upon a text field. The controls can be :

Let's see this nice Tips to use PCF for Dynamics 365 On premise v9.1. Indeed, PCF is officially only supported for Online version of D365, but with this quick unsupported tip you could use it either on on premise version.

When developing a Portal with Power Apps Portal, you'll reach a point, where you want to have your developments in a source control or where you want to deploy your portal to a production environment. It's possible with Power Apps Portal source code with Visual Studio Code and Power Platform CLI.

Themes in Model-Driven Apps is a nice option out of box to customize the visual render and experience of your application. Check this out !

It's always good to use D365 API calls when dealing with Ribbon's rules. But what about long running calls, you have do it asynchronously to not stuck the ribbon load. Let's see this trick about : Dataverse Use Async Promise in ribbon enable rule