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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

You're reading from  Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464170
Pages 462 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. No Code Extensions 2. Client-Side Extensions 3. SDK Enterprise Capabilities 4. Server-Side Extensions 5. External Integration 6. Enhancing Your Code 7. Security 8. DevOps 9. Dynamics 365 Extensions 10. Architectural Views 11. Dynamics 365

Building a custom UI using AngularJS


Web resources were introduced in Dynamics CRM 2011. One of the reasons for introducing HTML and JavaScript web resources was to get rid of ASPX ISV pages that needed to be deployed on the Dynamics CRM server. An action was not possible in a cloud environment. ISV pages were replaced with custom HTML user interfaces (UI) that can be embedded in iFrames on a form.

As a developer, you have the choice to build your own UI libraries to retrieve content and display it on custom user interfaces, or you can leverage industry standard frameworks that help produce clean, maintainable user interface extensions using proven design patterns. In this recipe, we have selected AngularJS as a popular framework to build a custom web resource to embed in an iFrame. We will focus on Angular version 1, since version 2 is still to gain popularity.

This recipe's custom user interface will leverage the metadata queries discussed in the previous recipe to build a page that displays...

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