MVP Summit 2024

Microsoft MVP Summit is an annual conference in Redmond (USA), where Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) meet to share experience, learn about new features coming to Microsoft products and to give feedback to Microsoft on what works well and where attention is needed. I just came back from this year’s one and want to share …

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OfflineAuthenticationAdminEmail overwritten

My F&O environment asked me to log in every time to when I started debugging. I changed OfflineAuthenticationAdminEmail in DynamicsDevConfig.xml (at %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio Dynamics 365), but I noticed that the value got overwritten every time when I started Visual Studio and opened an F&O project. I tried changing the value in j:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory\bin\DynamicsDevConfig.xml, but it didn’t …

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Entity collection as OData action parameter

Data entities in F&O can be exposed through OData protocol. You can also add OData actions by creating methods in X++ and decorating them with SysODataCollectionAttribute. You can see an example in MssLeaveRequestDateEntity.getDirects(): [ SysODataActionAttribute(’getDirects’, false), SysODataCollectionAttribute(’return’, Types::Record, ‘MssLeaveRequestDateEntity’) ] public static List getDirects( str reportingPersonnelNumber, date fromDate, date toDate, LeaveRequestApprovalStatus leaveRequestStatus) { List list …

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Public preview of the new F&O dev experience

Something that was talked about for a long time is getting closer to reality. F&O development will no longer require those huge VMs with SQL Server and everything. Instead, you’ll just install some VS extensions, connect to Dataverse, download F&O code and metadata and start developing. The runtime (web server, database) will be in cloud, …

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Monitoring and telemetry in F&O

Applications Insights in an Azure service for monitoring of applications. Many Azure Services support it out of the box – you just connect, say, an Azure Function to Application Insights and it’ll automatically start collecting information about performance, failed requests and so on. Using Application Insights API from D365FO is possible and several people in …

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