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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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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F&O development with multiple version control workspaces

The usual setup (documented by Microsoft) of version control for F&O is using Team Foundation Version Control and configuring the workspace mapping like this: $/MyProject/Trunk/Main/Metadata k:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory $/MyProject/Trunk/Main/Projects c:\Users\Admin123456789\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Projects This means that PackagesLocalDirectory contains both standard packages (such as ApplicationSuite) and custom packages, i.e. your development and ISV solutions you’ve installed. This works fine …

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Acceptance Test Library

Acceptance Test Library (ATL) in F&O isn’t a new feature, but many people aren’t aware of it, therefore let me try to raise awareness a bit. ATL is used in automated tests written by developers and its purpose is to easily create test data and verify results. Here is an example of such a test: …

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