James Hall's Dynamics 365 Blog
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Ever wondered what Solution Component type 93 is when attempting to import a solution, and it fails. Well, here is where you can find out.
Yes, I know this is also on the Microsoft Docs website, but I have also included it here as a handy reference.
Continue reading “Solution Components for Microsoft Dynamics 365”I have redesigned my Object Type Codes page so that its now a static page on the blog, and its also a searchable, sort-able list which I think works much better.
Continue reading “Object Type Codes Cheat Sheet for Microsoft Dynamics 365 (NEW)”I recently had a requirement to perform some Data Migration, but I needed a test system while I built up my SSIS process as I didn’t want to use the real online environments. Luckily, I have my own on-premise Dynamics 365 Version 9 Server which I have always used for testing and messing around with solutions and compatibility.
The main issue I have always had with using on-premise servers however is that these days, we are all developing with online environments, and solutions and what not from online cannot be imported into an on-premise environment. In the past, I have often just resorted to hand modifying solutions to get them in to the system. This would often involve editing the solution.xml file within the solution zip file, to alter the version tags at the top, and to remove the crmonline tag. Quite often, this would also require a few modifications to the customizations.xml file to remove any tags that do not exist in version 9 of Dynamics.
Its a hack, but for testing purposes, this was always something that worked.
These days though, you more often than not will face all manor of other issues, such as dependencies on other solutions, and its become a lot harder to achieve this.
Continue reading “Testing Data Migration with Dynamics 365 On-Premise”I needed a new plan.
I have updated my extension to support publishing of files from Visual Studio to Microsoft Dynamics Portals.
The tool now supports publishing files to Web Templates and Web Files, allowing you to use Visual Studio to edit and track changes of your portal related files, and quickly update Dynamics with the appropriate Portal files.
Web Files and Web Templates are simply listed within the Web Resource linker dialog for you to select. You can then publish the appropriate files within your Visual Studio solution to Dynamics.
If you have installed the extension from the Marketplace, then it should prompt you to update, but if not, you can get it from the below link.
Just a quick update to say that all of my Visual Studio extensions are now on the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace, and are available to download and install direct from Visual Studio.
Simply go into the Tools menu and choose Extensions and Updates, select Online and search for me, James Hall. My extensions are the top two in the list.
In theory, if you install them this way, you should get notified of when I update them.
I have decided to release my Visual Studio Template for Microsoft Dynamics. This allows you to quickly create a Solution within Visual Studio that holds separate projects for keeping your assemblies, web resources and data organised.
Microsoft Dynamics Visual Studio Template
Its incredibly useful, in my opinion, and works wonderfully well alongside my CRM Utilities extension as well.
