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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 2. Data Structures FREE CHAPTER 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

Using Interfaces for extensibility through metadata

Interfaces enforce that all classes that implement them also implement the methods defined in the interface. This has all the traditional benefits associated with them, but in Dynamics 365 for Operations, we can go further.

We should create an interface called MyRunnableI with a method called Run() and a class that implements it called MyRunningPerson (which must have a method called Run()). We can assign an instance of MyRunningPerson to a variable of type MyRunnableI and call its Run() method. This allows greater flexibility and extensibility of our code.

However, in Dynamics 365 for Operations, we can create a plugin framework where the class to instantiate is configured in data. We can, therefore, control which class gets instantiated based on conditions only known at runtime.

In order to focus more on the way that we can use interfaces to create a plugin pattern...

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