Open url in a specific browser profile

[MscrmTools]

I don't know how you work with multiple customers but I personaly use browser profiles : one profile per customer. So far so good!

Problem with XrmToolBox is that when opening an url it uses the default browser with the default profile, which does not have necessarily the appropriate credentials to open the url.

What I propose is to allow user to select a browser and a profile that can be associated with an XrmToolBox connection.

When a connection is validated, you will be proposed to set a browser

Then you can select the browser and the profile to use

I do have a question for developers that will use this new feature. How should I expose the method to open an Url?

1/ in the ConnectionDetail object ? => ConnectionDetail.OpenUrl(string url)

2/ in an helper class in XrmToolBox.Extensibility namespace ? => XrmToolBox.Extensibility.BrowserHelper.OpenUrl(ConnectionDetail detail)

[MarkMpn]

I'd definitely use this in SQL 4 CDS. Don't really have a strong opinion on which method you use to expose it though.

[MscrmTools]

Well, it's implemented the easiest way to avoid any dependency between connection controls and XrmToolBox => I implemented connectionDetail.OpenUrlWithBrowserProfile(new Uri(url));

[MscrmTools]

Well, just thought about it, extension does not work for null values... does it?

[rappen]

I think it works just fine...
It "looks like" a normal method, but it is a static method and you can call it anyway if the object (ConnectionDetail in this case) is null of a proper value.
@daryllabar, please explain! :)

[rappen]

Check this:

        internal static string Value(this TreeNode node, string key)
        {
            if (node != null && node.Tag != null && node.Tag is Dictionary<string, string> tag && tag.ContainsKey(key))
            {
                return tag[key];
            }
            return string.Empty;
        }

can be called like this:

var alias = node.Value("alias");

The "node" can be null of a TreeNode, and the method will handle it.
If you add that method to the class, it would explode if you call it when node is null.

[MscrmTools]

ok, got it... But you need to have a ConnectionDetail object (wheter it is null or not) available where you want to open an url.
Whereas a static method that takes a ConnectionDetail as an optional parameter can work anywhere

[rappen]

We always have the ConnectionDetail object, it is from the PluginControlBase.
I just think it's easier in our code to be possibly to call ConnectionDetail.OpenUrlWithBrowserProfile(...); to open an URL. To centralize the checking, both browser/profile and connected or not.

But you're the boss! 😊

[daryllabar]

What if I use different browsers as well? Would that be supported?

[MscrmTools]

I handle chrome, edge and Firefox