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- Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement – Sales, Marketing, etc (Dynamics CRM)
- Power BI, Microsoft’s Suite of Business Intelligence Tools
- Azure, Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform
- Power Apps, Building Cross-Platform Apps for your Enterprise
- Unified Service Desk (USD), Enterprise Call Center Software for Dynamics 365
- Customer Service workspace, Connect with Customers through Omnichannel
- PCF Controls, Extend Power Apps with the Power Apps Component Framework
- Power Pages, Build Websites for your Business
- Copilot, Microsoft’s AI Companion
- Using the Microsoft Learn MCP Server September 9, 2025 Copilot Studio, MCP
- Creating an Agent with Actions in Azure AI Foundry September 6, 2025 Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML), Azure
- How to use Multistep Forms in Power Pages May 17, 2024 Portals / Power Pages
- Adding a Modern List to a Power Pages Form May 15, 2024 Portals / Power Pages
- Displaying Power BI Reports in Power Pages April 22, 2024 Portals / Power Pages, Power BI
- Integrating Power BI Reporting with Dynamics 365 (2024) April 22, 2024 Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CRM), Power BI
- Creating Service Principals Really Easily Using Pac Cli March 22, 2024 Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CRM), Power Apps / Custom Pages / Dataverse / Power Fx
- Exploring Features in Copilot for Customer Service Dynamics 365 February 27, 2024 Copilot, Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CRM)
- How to Use PCF Controls in Power Pages February 21, 2024 PCF, Portals / Power Pages
- Using PCF Controls in Canvas Apps and Custom Pages February 21, 2024 PCF
- Installing PCF.Gallery Components When No solution.zip Exists February 21, 2024 Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CRM), Power Apps / Custom Pages / Dataverse / Power Fx
- Building a Dataset PCF Control with Styling (Without React) February 21, 2024 PCF
- Creating a Virtual PCF React Control with Fluent UI v8 February 21, 2024 PCF
- Building a PCF Control that calls Context WebApi February 21, 2024 PCF
- Using Context Navigation and User Settings in PCF Controls February 21, 2024 PCF
- Creating a Textbox PCF Control February 21, 2024 PCF
- Building and Deploying your First PCF Control (without React) February 21, 2024 PCF
- PCF Create, Build, Deploy Cheat Sheet February 21, 2024 PCF
- Setting Default Publisher Prefix using Preferred Solutions in Power Apps February 8, 2024 Power Apps / Custom Pages / Dataverse / Power Fx
- Embedding a Dataverse Power Automate Flow Inside Power BI February 5, 2024 Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CRM), Power Automate / Flow, Power BI
- How to add a base64 signature image to a SSRS Report - Lazarus Ventures January 9, 2026 at 9:41 am on How to Open an SSRS RDL Report in Visual Studio 2017 and 2019[…] thing first, you would need to set up an SSRS project in Visual Studio which (Carl de Souza, 2019)...
- Varma November 7, 2025 at 10:06 am on Using the Developer Portal (Legacy) in Azure API ManagementVery helpful walkthrough, Carl! This post makes the legacy Azure API Management Developer Portal much easier to understand. I liked...
- Roman November 4, 2025 at 12:52 pm on Using the New Modal Dialog to Open Forms in Dynamics 365 using Xrm.Navigation.navigateToIs there a (supported) way to detect if the form is opened as dialog? inputMode is always null and pageType...
- Stijn October 19, 2025 at 9:50 am on Dynamics CRM Ribbon CustomizationsGreat description, this will help my students 🙂
- Mrunalini Velamakanni July 11, 2025 at 3:10 am on Dynamics CRM Ribbon CustomizationsHi Carl, I created a solution for ribbon workbench, it has ribbonDiffXml, command defination everything as you daid, bit ehen...