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You're reading from Dynamics 365 Application Development Master professional-level CRM application development for Microsoft Dynamics 365

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788399784

Length 418 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Dynamics 365

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Deepesh Somani

Nishant Rana

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Customize Application Navigation FREE CHAPTER

2. Design Apps Using App Module Designer

3. Define Processes Using Visual Process Designer

4. Define Business Rules Using Business Rule Designer

5. Creating Custom Business Apps

6. Automate Business Processes Using Microsoft Flow

7. Develop Apps using Web API

8. Leverage Azure Extensions in Dynamics 365

9. Using Editable Grids in Apps

10. Configure Microsoft Cognitive services

11. Train the Users through Learning Path

12. Other New Features in Dynamics 365

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Develop Apps using Web API

Web API is a new feature, introduced for the first time for Dynamics CRM 2016. You can use Dynamics 365 Web API with different programming languages, multiple platforms, and devices. Web API in Dynamics 365 uses Open Data Protocol (OData), also known as OData version 4. As Dynamics 365 Web API is built on open standards, it is not necessary to use any assemblies.

With Dynamics 365, Organization Data Service was deprecated and was replaced with Web API. The main purpose of the API is to provide parity with organization services and try to reduce as many constraints as possible.

The following are the characteristics of Web API:

It implements OData version 4.0 for building and consuming RESTful APIs over rich data sources such as DOC, HTML, and PDF
It supports a wide variety of programming languages such as .Net, C++, Java, Python, devices, and platforms...

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Authors (2)

Deepesh Somani

Deepesh Somani is a Microsoft Dynamics CRM architect/practice lead at Dynamisity and a corporate trainer. He has been a Microsoft MVP awardee since 2015 and was recognized as one of the top 50 CRM bloggers in 2019 by Feedspot. He has developed 14 free tools with 7,000 downloads and a Learning Dynamics CRM app with 1,500 downloads and 4.4 rating on the Play Store. He is experienced in working in different domains with teams from many countries and multinational companies and has authored two other Packt books.

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Rana

Himani Rana is a senior data scientist and has been working as database developer and MicroStrategy specialist for multinational companies since 2007. She is currently pursuing her PhD in data mining and big data. She completed her master's in data mining and vehicular ad hoc networks. She has to her credit the following publication: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6557928. Himani possesses in-depth knowledge of Business Intelligence and big data technologies. She specializes in insurance and financial data analysis because of her Chartered Insurance Professional (CIP) designation. In addition, she was a committee member and reviewer of Information Systems, Technology and Management (http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642291654) and 2011 Third International Conference on Advanced Computing (ICoAC) (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6156880).

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