Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Dynamics 365 Fast Track for Developers

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In London-City

£ 1,299 + VAT

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  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London-city

This course offers detailed and interactive information on how to develop extensions for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, with focus on extension methods documented in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK. It provides instruction on the use of a number of Common Platform Operations, on how to query and execute these operations, as well as on developing a concise understanding of business process including WorkFlows, Actions, CustomWorkFlow Activities, and Business Process Flows. The course also describes how to use and debug Plug-ins, integration of CRM with Azure ServiceBus, application event programming, client extensions and web resources. Target Audience This course is a CRM development course intended primarily for partners and customers who have a technical background and familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The audience must also be experienced in basic form customizations and workflows. Learning Objectives At the end of this course you will be able to:   Describe how Microsoft Dynamics CRM is extended and the core extensibility features.  Use common methods to access system and custom entities, including business logic, xRM Framework and exceptions.  Execute queries in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM database, including QueryAttribute, QueryByExpression, LINQ, FetchXM,filtered views and OData.  Explain how the Organization Service web service interacts with Microsoft Dynamics CRM metadata.  Develop custom workflow activities for use within Microsoft Dynamics CRM that run code when configured workflow or dialog rules are created.  Debug custom workflow activity code and use declarative workflows for On-premise deployments.  Use Plug-ins to extend the functionality of events for any entity in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.  Understand the integration between Windows Azure with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.  Use the built-in features of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM application and understand how the Dynamics CRM application ...

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London-City ((select))
EC3V 9LJ

Start date

On request

About this course

  Experience in basic form customizations and workflows  Comfortable with the following technologies: .NET-connected applications to Visual Studio, JScript, HTML  Basic understanding of XML, Transact_SQL, Microsoft Dynamics CRM customizations and web services, Silverlight,  Windows Workflow Foundation, AJAX and Windows AZURE Platform

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Subjects

  • Web
  • Logic
  • Workflow
  • Microsoft Dynamics
  • CRM
  • Options
  • Best Practice
  • Access
  • Business Process

Course programme

Module 1 - An Extensible Framework

Objective

  • Demonstrate the range of options to customise and extend the CRM platform

Lessons

  • Introduce the use of Jscript and HTML web resources to enhance CRM Forms
  • Introduce sitemap and command bar to enhance navigation
  • Describe Processes (Workflows, Dialogs, Actions, Business Process Flows)
  • Introduce Custom Workflow Activities
  • Describe Plugins and their pros and cons over processes
  • Introduce the ability to access the data platform via WCF Web Service calls

Skills

  • Learn the major areas of extensibility for CRM

Module 2 - Accessing CRM Data - part 1

Objective

  • Demonstrate the range of options to perform CRUD operations with CRM, and recognise best practice

Lessons

  • CRM WCF Web Services
  • Accessing Organizations with the Discovery Service
  • Organization Service
  • CRUD operations with the Organization Service
  • CrmSvcUtil.exe to create early bound classes and enumerations
  • Compare the use of Early and late-bound classes
  • CRM data types
  • Compare CRUD operation techniques (QueryExpression, QueryByAttribute, LINQ, FetchXML, FilteredViews, OData)

Skills

  • Interrogate the Discovery Service to find Organization Service Endpoints
  • Perform CRUD operations with an instance of SDK OrganizationService proxy
  • Use the CrmSvcUtil.exe to generate early bound entity classes
  • Learn best practice in which data access technique to use

Module 3 - Accessing CRM Data - part 2

Objective

  • Describe the OrganizationService Execute method and the use of OrganizationRequest and OrganizationResponse messages
  • Demonstrate the capability to create entities and attributes in CRM through use of Metadata

Lessons

  • Execute method of the Organization Service
  • Common Request and Response classes
  • MetadataRequest to return optionset values
  • Using Metadata Requests to Create Entities and Attributes

Skills

  • Know when to use the Execute method over the Create, Retrieve, Delete, Update methods of the OrganizationService
  • Read OptionSet values
  • Create a CRM entity and assign attributes in code

Module 4 - Processes

Objective

  • Demonstrate the range of options to define and automate Business Processes, and place Business Logic in appropriate layer for maintenance and reuse

Lessons

  • Identify the types of Processes (WorkFlow, Action, Dialog, Business Process Flow)
  • Compare the scope, flexibility and maintenance of the different types
  • Understand core Process designer features.
  • Examine the steps involved in developing and deploying custom workflow activities.
  • Create custom workflow activities.
  • Debug custom workflow activities.
  • Understand declarative workflows and their limitations.
  • Create an Action and invoke it through code
  • Create a Business Process Flow and modify the process in code

Skills

  • Create Custom Workflow Activities, invoke them through a declarative workflow and debug them
  • Create Actions, expose them as OrganizationRequest derived types via the CrmSvcutil.exe and invoke through code
  • Create a Business Process Flow, invoke it through the User Interface and then set the process to different stage through code

Module 5 - Plugins

Objective

  • Demonstrate the creation of Plugins and recognise best practice in their use and debugging

Lessons

  • Identify how plug-ins can be used to extend Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
  • Review the CRM Request Pipeline and the different event stages.
  • Develop plug-ins.
  • Use impersonation in plug-ins.
  • Register and deploy plug-ins.
  • Debug plug-ins.
  • Create plugins with Developer Toolkit template, investigate preImage and secure settings

Skills

  • Create a .Net assembly deriving from SDK.Plugin
  • Register a signed Plugin to CRM with the Plugin Registration Tool
  • Debug plugins online with the Plugin Profiler
  • Create plugins with a preImage alias and Secure settings

Module 6 - Integrate CRM with Azure Services

Objective

  • Demonstrate synchronising data from CRM to External Applications via the use of Azure ServiceBus and queues

Lessons

  • Defining an Azure NameSpace to create a ServiceBus and Queue
  • Defining a service endpoint from CRM to propagate changes from specified entities to the Azure ServiceBus
  • Define a listener to receive messages from the Azure ServiceBus.

Skills

  • Register an Azure Namespace with powershell
  • Define an ACS secured queue
  • Create a service endpoint with the Plugin Registration tool to point changes of an entity to be received at the queue
  • Create .Net client application to read the queue

Module 7 - Web resources and Client side Development - part 1

Objective

  • Demonstrate the purpose of Jscript web resources in extending and customising the CRM Forms. Interact with Form events to perform validation, formatting, messaging and modifying the display. Determine when to use Jscript over Business Rules

Lessons

  • Describe different Web Resource types
  • Examine the Form and Control events
  • Invoking Jscript libraries from Form events
  • Best practices for writing Jscript libraries
  • Using the Xrm.Page API
  • Debug client side scripts

Skills

  • Best practices for writing Jscript functions ( namespace structures to avoid ambiguity, xml documentation for intellisense,
  • mocking the Xrm.Page API)
  • Use the Xrm.Page API to access entity attribute values, and form elements
  • Perform validation, formatting, show and hide controls, and perform notifications with Jscript
  • Debug Jscript in IE and Chrome

Module 8 - Web resources and Client side Development - part 2

Objective

  • Demonstrate the ability via Jscript to perform complex CRUD operations with OData and Execute system operations with
  • SOAP and the XMLHttpRequest. Describe best practice for naming Web Resources and referencing from within CRM.

Lessons

  • Naming and referencing web resources
  • Introduce the XMLHttpRequest to access server side resources
  • Define REST operations and call OData service from JScript
  • Examine and understand the use of ATOM and JSON.
  • Understand and demonstrate how JQuery can be utilized to simplify Jscript operations
  • Understand how SOAP operations can be sent via XMLHttpRequest to call the OrganizationService Execute method

Skills

  • Create a logical naming convention for web resources
  • Create JScripts to access CRM data through the OData Service
  • Create JScripts to access CRM data through the OrganizationService

Module 9 - Controlling Navigation

Objective

  • Demonstrate the ability to modify the CRM UI by changing the sitemap, and effect the user's interaction within forms and access to external resources by modifying the command bar.

Lessons

  • Edit the sitemap manually - through exporting a solution
  • Edit the sitemap with a specialised tool
  • Edit the command bar with a ribbon editor
  • Display and Enable Rules for Commands
  • Passing Parameters to CRM Forms and Web Resources

Skills

  • Edit the sitemap to show or hide areas and links
  • Create new buttons on Form command bars
  • Create command Actions to navigate or run Jscript resources
  • Pass parameters to Web Resources and Forms to populate fields or supply business data

Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Dynamics 365 Fast Track for Developers

£ 1,299 + VAT