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Practical fixes, deep dives, and lessons learned across Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure, and modern web development.
React.Js - Resource unavailable error
Happy days when everything is working in your development environment until you deploy your React project to Azure Web App.
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Prompt-less Sign Out With msal-react
Working on my recent project using React.JS and msal-react library for user authentication with Microsoft Entra External ID (formerly Azure B2C), I have noticed that when user s…
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Disabling enforced Microsoft Authenticator app, back to SMS code
It has been a while since Microsoft started enforcing the use of Microsoft Authenticator app as preferred authentication method than other common ones such as SMS code.
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First look at Power Platform pipeline deployment
Traditionally in the simplest way, we would use the web UI to export a solution, save the solution zip file locally, then import the file to the target solution.
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Node.js installation error with 'fnm use'
I was installing Node.js in Windows 11 for the first time. Following the instructions on nodejs.org website, screenshot below.
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Power Automate and Docusign optional fields
Recently, I worked on a project which requires document be sent to customers via Docusign for digital signatures completion. Most fields are mandatory but some are optional.
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Microsoft bug causing Flow not triggering
We built a little over a hundred automated Microsoft Flows connected to Dynamics 365 Online. Many were triggered by simple Create, Update events from Dynamics 365 records.
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Using FetchXmlBuilder to generate OData query
Quite often, we need to specify the attributes to select or the filter conditions on related entities in DataVerse connector in Microsoft Flow.
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Adding custom PCF control to Dynamics 365 CE form
PCF Gallery (https://pcf.gallery/) has a great list of PCF controls available to use - both free and payable controls.
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Dynamics 365 CRM Issue/Bug with Note and Activity when parent record Owner is re-assigned
Recently, I discovered a quite annoying issue in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement related to Note and Activities (eg. Email, Phone Call, etc).
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Generate PDF document using Word Online and Sharepoint connectors in Microsoft Flow
Word Online is a premium connector in Microsoft Flow. It comes with two actions:
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Connection Reference not visible in Microsoft PowerAutomate (Flow)
When you started building your Microsoft PowerAutomate (Flow) using your own user credential, you may be wondering why the Connection Reference is not showing up.
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Using PluginRegistrationTool and XrmToolBox plugins behind proxy
When working for a large organisation, your development machine would most likely be behind a proxy server for obvious security reason.
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Accessing custom form parameters after getQueryStringParameters is deprecated
Xrm.Page.context.getQueryStringParameters is now deprecated. The custom parameter values are now accessible via formContext.getAttribute('parammycustomparam').getValue().
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ASP.NET Core Web API (.NET 5.0) logging to Azure Blob Storage
I was developing a new ASP.NET Core Web API with .NET 5.0 target framework using Visual Studio 2019, and I needed to write some logs into text file for my application. So, this…
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Download File from Azure File Share (C#)
Azure.Storage.Files.Shares NuGet package makes it easy to download file(s) from Azure Storage File Share.
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Generate JSON Web Token from a PKCS#12 X509Certificate
Following from my previous post Generate JSON Web Key from a PKCS12 X509Certificate, here is how to sign a JSON Web Token (JWT) using the private key of a PKCS12 certificate file.
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Generate JSON Web Key from a PKCS#12 X509Certificate
In my recent project, we needed to generate JSON Web Key (JWK) containing the public key of an X509Certificate using RSA256 signing algorithm of 2048 key size.
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