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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

Creating event handler methods

We have already created an event handler in the previous recipe.

So far, we have created an event handler for data events using the DataEventHandler decoration and a delegate event handler using the SubscribesTo decoration. We can also add handlers directly to any public method.

There are two types: a pre-event and a post-event handler. One example of where we may need to do this is the SalesTable.insert() method. This doesn't call super(), so we can't use a data event handler.

The actual insert occurs within the SalesTableType class in the insert()method. If you want access to the sales table record, you need to add the handler to the table as the record being inserted is a private variable to the class.

Event handlers like this are used to integrate specific solutions, so the handler will be in a class in the specific package.

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