Plug-ins, Webhooks in Azure Functions and Microsoft Dynamics 365 v9.0+
Microsoft has launched many new features with updates of Microsoft Dynamics 365, but one key feature of Dynamics 365 has remained: plug-ins. If you aren’t familiar with this powerful tool used for extending the application, a plug-in is a custom business logic triggered by registered events in the Dynamics 365 pipeline. For example, a custom plug-in would fire to execute an augmented logic whenever a new account is created in Dynamics 365.
Developers depend on plug-ins to execute processes within Dynamics 365, but plug-ins aren’t without limits. When configurable webhooks launched with the latest Dynamics 365 release, it became possible to configure a webhook—similar to a plug-in—to execute in an Azure function.
Webhooks vs. plug-ins
If you’ve always used plug-ins up until now, you are probably wondering why you should opt to use webhooks. Here are two scenarios:
- You run into sandbox plug-in limitations with Dynamics 365 online like:
- Timeouts
- Partial trust environments
- HTTP/HTTPS protocols
- DNS-only network access
- Forced ILMerge
- Limited resource usage capabilities
- Additional complications result from keeping integration logic out of the code base or existing .NET assemblies (to facilitate integration with an external system) don’t work in a partial trust environment—even with ILMerge.
How do you write a plug-in using a webhook?
Writing and deploying a plug-in using a webhook in Azure Functions is a simple process. Let’s review an example…
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where we will walk you through writing a plug-in in Azure Functions.
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