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Filtering Subgrids in Dynamics 365 Power Apps with setFilterXml

Subgrids in Dynamics 365 allow us to do several things with JavaScript. In this post, we will look at filtering a subgrid using setFilterXml. Note this appears to be an unsupported method, please check the Microsoft documentation to see if this becomes supported. Let’s look at the Contacts subgrid on the Account entity: Note the Contacts subgrid is called Contacts: The subgrid is a control, and we can get it … Continue reading Filtering Subgrids in Dynamics 365 Power Apps with setFilterXml

Compare 2 Assemblies Using Telerik JustAssembly

In this post, we will create an assembly, update it, and compare the compiled code using JustAssembly from Telerik. At the time of writing this is free software. First, let’s create 2 assemblies. Let’s open Visual Studio 2019. Some simple code with a method to add 2 numbers: The assembly looks like below: Let’s take a copy of this assembly, and now update the original assembly. We will add some … Continue reading Compare 2 Assemblies Using Telerik JustAssembly

How to Secure an Azure App Service with Azure AD Authentication

In this post, we will look at how to secure an Azure App Service with authentication by using Azure Active Directory. Go to https://portal.azure.com and select an App Service. We will use one we created earlier. Select Authentication / Authorization: Set App Service Authentication to On: Select Azure Active Directory. Note the other options – Facebook, Google, Twitter etc: We see: Let’s use Express setup. We will call our app CarlCRMAPIADApp: … Continue reading How to Secure an Azure App Service with Azure AD Authentication

Office 365 and Dynamics 365 Data Center Locations

To view where Office 365 and Dynamics 365 Data Centers are located, go to http://o365datacentermap.azurewebsites.net/: Select your region, for example, North America: Note there is an updated link to https://products.office.com/en-US/where-is-your-data-located?ms.officeurl=datamaps&geo=All: Select your location or Geo: For the US:  

Adding App Insights to an Azure App Service

In this post, we will look at how to add Azure App Insights into an App Service. Log into the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com/ and select your App Service, then go to the Application Insights menu option. Click Turn on Application Insights: We see “Your app will be connected to an auto-created Application Insights resource: CarlCRMAPI Instrumentation key will be added to App Settings. This will overwrite any instrumentation key value in … Continue reading Adding App Insights to an Azure App Service

Using the Developer Portal (Legacy) in Azure API Management

In this post, we will look at the Developer Portal (Legacy) for Azure API Management. Browse to your APIM in Azure and click on the link: On selecting this, we get to a developer portal: We see our APIs. Select one: We see our operations. Select one and click Try It: We can select a Subscription Key and click Send to send a request: We get a 200 Response back. … Continue reading Using the Developer Portal (Legacy) in Azure API Management

Using Products in Azure API Management

In this post, we will look at using Products in API Management. Products let you “group APIs, define terms of use, and runtime policies”. To use products, go to APIM and select Products: We see 2 products – Starter and Unlimited: If we open Starter, we see this product has a rate limit of 5 calls per 60 seconds: The Unlimited policy does not contain this: Let’s create a new … Continue reading Using Products in Azure API Management

Using Postman to Hit an API Management Endpoint with Subscription

In our previous posts, we created an App Service and an API Management in Azure. Let’s now use Postman to send a request to the Azure API Management endpoint. Go to the APIM and select the API. Under Settings, copy the Base URL: Now, in our case, we have /api/Customers to get all customers: So our URL is https://crmdevapim.azure-api.net/api/customers. Let’s open Postman and create this request. Click Send: We get a … Continue reading Using Postman to Hit an API Management Endpoint with Subscription

Backend service URL is not defined in Azure App Service

In this post, we will look at the error “Backend service URL is not defined” when making a request to an ASP.NET Web API through API Management. I have a .NET Core Web Api with Swashbuckle / Swagger. The Web Api is published to an Azure App Service, and an Azure API Management has this API loaded. We can run a test message using the APIM: We get a 500 … Continue reading Backend service URL is not defined in Azure App Service

Adding Swagger OpenAPI to an ASP.NET Web API

In this post, we will add Swagger OpenAPI to an ASP.NET Web API project. Swagger OpenAPI is a way to document the capabilities of your API. We can do this in .NET by adding the Swashbuckle NuGet package. Let’s continue with our Web Api project we created earlier. We will open the project in Visual Studio and add the Swashbuckle.AspNetCore package: Click OK: Now open Startup.cs and go to ConfigureServices: We … Continue reading Adding Swagger OpenAPI to an ASP.NET Web API