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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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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DynamicsMinds conference speakers

I’ve just checked the list of sessions proposed for DynamicsMinds conference (22–24 May 2023, Slovenia), where I’ll also have a few, and recognized many familiar names. It’ll be great not only to listen their sessions, but also to finally meet them again in person. The list is long, but to mention at least some names, …

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