One post a week, on Sunday. Dataverse, .NET, and whether the tools we rely on still deserve to be there. The email version is called Earns Its Keep.
My dev flow ran on Daxif and NUKE Build for years. Daxif handled auth, solution sync, and the day-to-day loop. NUKE Build handled packaging and deploy. It worked, until both tools stopped keeping pace. Daxif’s F# codebase made community contributions hard and updates from the Delegate A/S team sl...
What pac solution pack ships to production planted a fork. Pack from the folder pac solution sync just captured, not from whatever a solution mapping file pulls in fresh at pack time. Then the DLL you ship is the one you actually tested. I left it there on purpose. The post wasn’t built to litiga...
Microsoft named its AI development workflow Hypervelocity Engineering. Every named theirs Compound Engineering. Different vendors, different branding, and underneath both of them, the same move: compress the unit of engineering work and hand the ceremony to agents. Look at the two loops side by s...
You have a plugin to change and a web resource to update. You are working against a dev Dataverse environment, the one nobody else touches while it is yours for the afternoon. The loop is small and you run it many times a day: build the code, get it into the environment, check it works, [...]
You unpack your solution. You commit it to git. You pack and deploy from a pipeline. You tell people you do source-centric ALM. Where did the unpacked solution come from? It came from an environment. Someone opened the maker portal, edited a model-driven app or a Flow or a Canvas App, hit save, t...
On April 27, 2026, SAP quietly published an update to its API policy. Section 2.2.2 now prohibits use of SAP APIs for “interaction or integration with (semi-)autonomous or generative AI systems that plan, select, or execute sequences of API calls” and for “scraping, harvesting, or systematic and/...
The Taplio invoice landed in my inbox, and I did what I do with any recurring cost I haven’t thought about in a while: I actually looked at it. €50 per month. €600 a year. For a tool I was using to schedule LinkedIn posts and check analytics. Not the AI content features. Not the [...]
The dominant story in software development right now: AI writes the code, developers review the output, everyone learns to write better prompts. The developer becomes a prompt engineer, or optional, depending on who is telling the story. Either exciting or threatening. Either way, the same story....
Power Automate connectors were training wheels. That is not an insult. Training wheels are useful. They let you go somewhere you could not go without them. The question is whether you still need them. The short answer is: increasingly, no. What connectors actually solved The problem connectors so...
Catching exceptions is not the same as handling them. Most developers do not know the difference, and it costs them. I was reviewing a pull request last week. Standard stuff: integration code, talking to an external API, processing some data. The code was wrapped in try...catch. Not a specific ex...
Why developers are becoming product thinkers faster than expected I used to think coding would always be my core work. Not just part of it, but the core. Even when AI tools started improving, I assumed the impact would be incremental, helpful, faster, but not fundamental. I was wrong. Today, I pr...
Everyone loves IntelliSense. It’s comforting. It's helpful. It's... kinda overhyped? Especially when it comes to adding strong types for form fields in Dyn...
Working with more than one Power Platform or Dynamics 365 environment can quickly become a headache—especially when you're building a SaaS solution that ne...
For a while now we can use the new Dataverse ServiceClient that replaced the old CrmServiceClient . It has three big improvements: Works for .NET 5.0 and u...
For ages, we've been ferociously encouraging the integration of developer practices, such as source control and ALM, into the Dynamics 365/Dataverse realm....
You like to use strong types in .NET when working with Dataverse / Dynamics 365? Are you into Early-Bound Classes? Generating entity classes? You can use C...
Sending email to my subscribers is done by an automation flow. In the last couple of days paragraphs in my emails started to disappear. It changed into one...
You want to call Form OnLoad multiple times? Don't! I was reading about a blogpost to trigger the Form OnLoad multiple times . This should happen after the...
Power Pages is getting better and better. But then I looked at the pricing page. Who is the target market for this product?
On holiday you want as little friction as possible. Yesterday I wrote about the unwritten traffic rules in Bali and that they remove a lot of friction when driving. But my advice is not to drive yourself in Bali or any other place in Asia: Always hire a car with a driver! Why? Because it [...]
Last week I was on holiday in Bali, Indonesia. The traffic there looks chaotic and dangerous. There seems to be a lot of friction. But when you learn to drive like a local it becomes much easier. The unwritten traffic rules in Bali: ✅ Whatever you can see in front of you is your responsibilityAny...
Power Pages! They tell me it's easy and is very secure, it's built in! I am not fully convinced when I hear this. Why? Simple said: "Easy and Security don'...
In Microsoft Dynamics 365, Model Driven Apps in the Power Platform, you can create multiple main forms for the same table or TOFKAE (The Object Formally Kn...
Environment Variables Dynamics 365 / Power Apps solution can have Environment Variables . Often a Settings table (=entity) would be created to store config...
The Problem I was trying to export a Solution from Dynamics 365 CE / Dynamics CRM to deploy into the next environment, but instead I got a Query Builder E...
Also 173 shorter notes going back to 2022, on Dataverse, .NET and whatever else came up that week.