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Swagger is really a cool tool to document and test out REST API's. This blog tells about steps to enable Swagger on a Dot Net Core Application along with Authentication as well. In this demo, I am using Azure Active Directory OAuth 2 Authentication to protect my Web API from unauthenticated access. We will be enabling OAuth 2 Authentication on our Swagger UI as well so that we can authenticate using Swagger and then invoke our APIs successfully. OAuth 2 Authentication works by using Bearer Token to validate the caller and provide access to resource. This requires us to register an Application in the Active Directory tenant, which will be used for authentication of the API, and we will use the same app to authenticate Swagger as well. Lets get started - Assuming you have a Dot Net Core Web API that's authenticated via Azure Active Directory OAuth 2 Authentication. Azure Active Directory Application Registration - We need to set up our Active Directory Application so th...

Introduction: This blog describes how you can retrieve data from Dynamics 365 CRM/CE Online in an Azure Function, using CRM OData Web API. The CRM Web API has a couple of advantages over the traditional SOAP based approach to interact with CRM. These are rest based services, its easy to use and transport over http protocol , and there is no need to use additional web resources (XrmServiceToolkit ) of SDK (SDK.REST). Here is a detailed documentation on CRM OData Wbeb API. I will be using an Azure Function Application in Visual Studio 2017 to retrieve records from Dynamics 365 CRM/CE, by making use of OData API Endpoint provided by CRM. Prerequisites: Dynamics 365 CRM Online Trial https://trials.dynamics.com/ https://signup.microsoft.com/Signup?OfferId=bd569279-37f5-4f5c-99d0-425873bb9a4b&dl=DYN365_ENTERPRISE_PLAN1&Culture=en-us&Country=us&ali=1 Azure Subscription related to CRM Online instance https://portal.azure.com/ Visual Studio 2017 with Cl...

Logic Apps Logic Apps helps you build, schedule, and automate processes as workflows so you can integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organizations. To build integration solutions with logic apps, we can choose from a growing gallery of ~200 built-in connectors, such as Dynamics 365, SQL Database, Azure services (Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Table Service, etc.), Office 365, Salesforce, Google, and more. These connectors provide triggers, actions, or both for creating logic apps that securely access and process data in real time. Benefits of using Azure Logic Apps: Out-of-the-box connectors reduce integration challenges Faster development using Logic App Templates Re-usability of the Logic Apps Pay only for what you use Use Case Today, we'll be looking at listing Dynamics 365 records, using Logic Apps, and then performing some processing on the data (sending email to retrieved accounts, storing contact email id in an Array Variable) and finall...