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Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook

You're reading from   Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook Create and extend real-world solutions using Dynamics 365 Operations

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467133
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting a New Project FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Structures 3. Creating the User Interface 4. Application Extensibility, Form Code-Behind, and Frameworks 5. Business Intelligence 6. Security 7. Leveraging Extensibility 8. Data Management, OData, and Office 9. Consuming and Exposing Services 10. Extensibility Through Metadata and Data Date-Effectiveness 11. Unit Testing 12. Automated Build Management 13. Servicing Your Environment 14. Workflow Development 15. State Machines

Consuming an external service within Dynamics 365 for Operations

The technique hasn't changed substantially since Dynamics AX 2012. The key difference is that we will need to manually craft the binding. We will still need to create a C# project to consume the web service, and then use it as a reference within our Dynamics 365 for Operations project.

The example service is a weather service provided by WebserviceX.net (www.webservicex.net). There is no recommendation here; it was simply the first one in when I searched for weather web services. The aim is to create a recipe that you can use for your web services: the chosen service in this case isn't relevant.

When selecting a service to use, we must check the license terms and conditions, as not all are free to use; just because the license terms aren't enforced, it does not mean that it is free to use.
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