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Power Platform Tidbits #6 - Plugins in single-project vs multi-project

Plugins has been and are an integral extension point in Dynamics and now Dataverse. They allow you to put logic close to the data. Logic that can be invoked at different stages of execution of an action (aka message). When the number of plugins grows, you might be willing to

Build dialogs using model-driven pages to run flows all with low-code

Low-code is all the rush these days. It makes for more maintainable solutions that are built faster, specially when it comes to extending existing platforms like Power Platforms / Dynamics. It makes our work more decoupled from that of Microsoft's and we can each focus on building better solutions

Power Platform Tidbit #5 - What events are available in model-driven apps

Power Platform Tidbit #5 - What events are available in model-driven apps

Model-driven Power Apps can notify your code when certain events happen in the following parts of your apps.

Power Platform Tidbit #4 - Workflows in Business process flows

Power Platform Tidbit #4 - Workflows in Business process flows

Power Automate Business process flows workflows explained in two minutes

Power Platforms Tidbits #3 - Power Automate flow types

Power Platforms Tidbits #3 - Power Automate flow types

The five types of Power Automate flows explained in two minutes with bonus tips.

Power Platform Tidbits #2 - What is possible with business rules in Model-Driven Apps vs Canvas Apps

Power Platform Tidbits #2 - What is possible with business rules in Model-Driven Apps vs Canvas Apps

Business rules can be used by Canvas Apps or Model-driven Apps to do the following: * Set column values. * Clear column values. * Validate data and show error messages. But keep in mind that they can do the following only in model-driven apps: * Show or hide columns. * Enable or disable columns. * Create

Power Platform Tidbits #1 - Business Rules vs Client-side scripts in model-driven apps

Power Platform Tidbits #1 - Business Rules vs Client-side scripts in model-driven apps

When to consider client-side scripts over business rules in model-driven Power Apps.

How to install Visual Studio 2021 Preview Behind Corporate Proxy

How to install Visual Studio 2021 Preview Behind Corporate Proxy

So you are tempted to get your hands on the shiny Visual Studio 2021 Preview, right? But the evil corporate proxy is once again blocking you from expanding your curiosity? Well, fear no more. Stay with me while I'll walk you through this in literally just a minute!

How to fix proxy authentication issues in your development environment

I have written about proxy authentication before and although this annoying problem has been around, many tools still don't support it well. Specially when it comes to NTLM flavor of it that has been developed by Microsoft long time ago and even many Microsoft tools did not support

A shorter way to initialize Lists in C#

Threre is a trick that I wanted to show you today. A trick you can do initialize your lists a bit easier. Of course there's some plumbing to be done. Let's assume you have a class definition like the following. public class Foo { public int A

Development behind corporate proxy + authentication

Developing in companies that have proxy servers for developers can be frustrating in this age when every tool needs access to online resources and even parts of software development life cycle are cloud based. Proxy servers that require NTLM authentication just add to that frustration. NTLM is developed by Microsoft

How to warm-up SharePoint or other web applications and WCF (SOAP) services with PowerShell

There are many reasons you might want to warm-up a web application occasionally. It can be after a fresh deployment or on a regular basis after recycling application pools. Some times you might also need to warm-up SOAP services without going through front-end. It might seems to be any easy

How to read optional attributes in XML with default values

How to read optional attributes in XML with default values

When we are reading data from XML data sources, it is very common that when a value is not given for an attribute or an element, we have to use a default value instead. Having to check for the existence of the node each and every time we are reading

Disabling Security warning for Attach to process in Visual Studio 2010, 2013 and 2015

Disabling Security warning for Attach to process in Visual Studio 2010, 2013 and 2015

You probably have already suffered from the pain of having to click one more time when attaching visual studio's debugger to a process. As developers we all have the obsession to be more productive and everything that comes in the way is a bummer. I should have shared

How to install/update Atom, Sublime, VSCode and Brackets packages behind corporate proxy (NTLM)

You can easily setup CNTLM to allow any application that does not support NTLM authentication to connect to the internet.