Author: Aiden Kaskela

Achieving ‘God Mode’ without Level Up

Achieving ‘God Mode’ without Level Up

Level Up for Dynamics 365/Power Apps has made lives easier for countless Dynamics admins, developers, and end users. Some IT departments don’t like users having that power and block the extensions. Here’s how you can still get the same results.

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Dataverse Performance: Custom API vs Action with CWA

Dataverse Performance: Custom API vs Action with CWA

Dynamics 365 developers have been using Custom Process Actions to call C# code for years. Now with Custom APIs we can skip the Action scaffolding and wire up our code more directly. Should you upgrade your Actions to APIs? We’re going to take a look at the performance and see how that factors in.

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Plugin Performance: Images vs Retrieve

Plugin Performance: Images vs Retrieve

Conventional wisdom says that using an Image is always faster than a Retrieve operation. Is it true? Well, it’s complicated. Today we’re going to run some benchmark tests and find out when when using a Retrieve in a plugin is actually faster than an Image.

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New Blog (and old links)

Hi Everyone, this is my new Dynamics 365 and Power Platform blog. The content I’m aiming for will be primarily geared to developers and other technical users and admins. Anything I find useful will go here but that’s where I spend most of my time, and probably where I’ll find most of my tips.

I have a lot of content over a lot of older blogs and I’ll let them lie, but if you want to check out my old stuff you’ll find most of it at https://workflowelements.com/crm-tips-blog/

Hope you enjoy! – Aiden