In this episode, we discuss the challenges faced by customers who try to build a greenfield Dynamics 365 business application with in-house developers without guidance or direction from an experienced consulting partner or individual. While there is development involved when building complex systems there is a learning curve that must be taken into consideration. Project teams that attempt to learn the Dynamics platform and meet project deadlines tend to get their experience at the customer's expense.

Today on the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Jonas walk through what is involved in creating a plugin for the XrmToolBox.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Technologies you need to know

The VisualStudio XTB Template

PluginBase/PluginControlBase

Async helper methods

Setting up Debug Configuration

XTB interfaces

Daryl's Inability to memorize an e-mail address

Next week on CRM Audio:

• Daryl LaBar and Jonas Rapp tell you how to get started developing for the XrmToolBox
• Stephan Smith talks about the instant developer fallacy
• Neil Benson interviews Mark Christie on Scrum Dynamics (what's haggis?)
• CRM Audio episode 105

Thanks for listening!

In this episode (sponsored by Maplytics by Inogic), hosts Britta Rekstad and Matthew C. Anderson discuss the Power platform from the perspective of people with a background in Dynamics CRM / Dynamics 365.

Discussed on the show

• Makers / Citizen Developers / Admins
• Matt's Maker experience at Microsoft
• Matt's PowerApp-Launching Bookmarklet project on GitHub
• Common Data Service (for Apps and Analytics)
• The Common Data Model
• Definition of PowerApps over time
• Power BI
• Power BI & More 46: Dynamics 365 interactive charts and dashboards
• Microsoft Flow episode and continued development
• Mashup potential of Power platform components
• Listener feedback - don't sell OOB auditing short!

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This episode is brought to you by mscrm-addons.com.

When you are writing, blogging, podcasting, or some other creative endeavor, one of the most difficult things can be coming up with ideas for content and translating those ideas to a presentation or article. In today's episode, Matthew Anderson and Joel Lindstrom discuss techniques that they use to create content.

Topics discussed:

• Finding ideas from your life experiences
• Overcoming common fears
• Self-imposed deadlines
• Minimum level of proficiency
• Stages of competence
• Being comfortable with what you don't know
• Outlining a topic
• Being authentic

Links:

• Scrivner https://www.literatureandlatte.com

In this episode (brought to you by D365UG), Joel Lindstrom and Ulrik Carlsson discus what you need to know about Interactive charts and dashboards in Dynamics 365 Unified Interface.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• What can you do with interactive dashboards that you can't do with classic UI dashboards?
• Drill down filters
• Dashboard date filters
• Single vs. multiple streams
• Entity level dashboards
• Number of widgets on a dashboard
• Specifying color of option set values in charts
• Advanced chart editing limitations

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PowerApps podcast is back for 2019 with a discussion about the new WYSIWYG model driven app designer, View Designer and embedding canvas apps natively within model driven apps! Plus, Shawn and Kyle talk about resources to kick-start your New Years Resolution to learn more about PowerApps and Flow! Happy New Year!

Seth’s having success implementing Dynamics 365 in city, county and state organisations in health and human services.

Seth is delivering a Dynamics 365 virtual training academy for new administrators for D365UG members on February 6, 2019. Find out more here.

Neil and Seth discuss how to sell agile projects in public sector organisations, how to handle fixed-price, fixed-scope, fixed-timeline contracts and projects.t.

Today Nick and Collin are joined by Nikita Polyakov, Senior Architect with the Microsoft FastTrack group. Nikita talks about his experience working with D365 portals and steps required to be successful with D365 portals.

This episode is brought to you by D365UG.

Today Nick and Collin are joined by Nikita Polyakov, Senior Architect with the Microsoft FastTrack group. Nikita talks about his experience working with D365 portals and steps required to be successful with D365 portals.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Skills required to work with portals
• Customer challenges with portals
• Building domain experience with portals
• Setting realistic expectations with portals
• Scope of Microsoft support for portals
• Using other technologies with D365 portals
• When are other portals technologies a better fit than D365 portals?
• Microsoft investment in portals enhancements
• Designing with the user in mind
• Agile portals deployment