In this episode Jonas and Daryl each present their top 10 Tools for CRM/XRM/CDS Developers. Jonas teaches Daryl about Win+V Jonas declares Sweden the "Home of the Imposter Syndrome" Daryl talks about America's love with blowing stuff up Daryl's Tools Notepad++ Visual Studio/VS Code Ea rly Bound Generator Attribute Manager W ebResource Manager Visual Studio Solution Accelerator S cript Finder / Form Libraries Manager L inqPad Canvas App Packager Ditto Jonas's Tools Plugin Trace Viewer for XrmTool...
Jul 26, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 29
In this episode, we talk to 17 year MVP David Yack about the tools in his web page, CDS.tools Daryl still manages to mess the introduction up, even after doing it 28 times. David walks through all of the tools in CDS.tools SDK Tools Download Business Rules Viewer Security Role Explorer Server Trigger Explorer Access Tokens WebAPI Builder Auto Number Creator Record Counts Azure Region Check Jonas pretends not to know about CRM online Daryl points out the new-ish RetrieveTotalRecordsCount request ...
Jul 12, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 28
In this episode, we talk to the expert of all things SQL to CDS, Mark Carrington, about the new SQL CDS endpoint and his SQL for CDS XrmToolBox tool. Jonas admits to not being able to write Fetch Xml as easily as SQL Mark walks through his tool and the differences/advantages between the new SQL CDS endpoint All agree that Jonas is "special" Mark's Links Blog - https://markcarrington.dev/ SQL 4 CDS https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/MarkMpn.SQL4CDS/ https://markcarrington.dev/sql-4-cds/ https://g...
Jun 28, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 27
In this episode we interview Ivan Ficko, the Dynamics Ninja, , about his new tool, the Yeoman Pcf Generator. Jonas and Daryl admit their PCF ignorance Ivan walks through the differences between his tool and other similar tools Ivan's Info Twitter: https://twitter.com/DynamicsNinja GitHub: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja Blog: https://dynamicsninja.blog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanficko/ Email: ivan.ficko@outlook.com Ivan's Tools PCF Generator: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/gene...
Jun 14, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 26
In this episode, Jonas puts the call out for help with using frameworks on projects, so we call in Scott Durow ( @ScottDurow ) the creator of the Ribbon Workbench and Sparkle Xrm framework, to discuss. This is part 2 of a 2 part episode. Should projects build their own? How much would it handle? Should open source frameworks be used? Dangerous of the "Super Framework" Faxing requests How not to end a Podcast https://twitter.com/@ScottDurow https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/ https://www.yout...
May 31, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 25
In this episode, Jonas puts the call out for help with using frameworks on projects, so we call in Scott Durow ( @ScottDurow ) the creator of the Ribbon Workbench and Sparkle Xrm framework, to discuss. This is part 1 of a 2 part episode. Daryl introduces Jonas to Weezer Should projects use straight SDK? Should projects build their own? How much would it handle? Should open source frameworks be used? Dangerous of the "Super Framework" https://twitter.com/@ScottDurow https://www.linkedin.com/in/sc...
May 17, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 24
In this episode we interview Clement Olivier (@Clement0livier stuffandtacos , https://www.linkedin.com/in/clemolivier ), the creator of the Quick Edit Form, about his new tool. Clement explains why he made the Quick Edit Form control, and the learning experience with PCF and Office Fabric UI. Download the control here: https://github.com/carfup/PCFControls/releases Clement's Blog https://stuffandtacos.azurewebsites.net/2020/04/15/pcf-quick-edit-form/ Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like ...
May 03, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 23
In this episode, Markus Erlandsson invites Daryl and Jonas to discuss early bound development vs late bound development, as both Daryl and Jonas have their own XrmToolBox tools to assist in these areas. Markus Erlandsson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markuserlandsson/ https://twitter.com/MarkusErlandsso https://crmrocks.com/ -- Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com. Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: htt...
Apr 14, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 22
In this episode, Jonas and Daryl talk through common tools for getting your technical problems solved, with a specific eye towards canvas apps. We also invite Matt Devaney, a MS forums Appstronaut, to talk through the tools he uses to solve his questions. Forums – a Product that ages in reverse, the more you use it, the better it gets What old programming language books are used for How to get your questions answered Tips and Tricks for solving issues in Canvas Apps Links Collections Cookbook: h...
Apr 05, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 21
In this episode, Jonas and Daryl walk through Jonas' newest tool for the XrmToolBox , the UML Diagram Generator . We also invite Reece Campbell, a beta user of the tool, to talk through his experience with using it. PlantUML and it's features Shorten the XrmToolBox to XBox? What advantages/disadvantages it has over the Entity Relation Diagram Creator Daryl makes plea for free testing Would the real D La B please stand up? Links UML Document Generator: https://jonasr.app/UML PlantUML: https://pla...
Feb 09, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 20
In this episode, Jonas and Daryl pretend to have been promoted to PMs at Microsoft, in charge of the Power platform. Each takes turns describing what they would do if they were in charge. Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at cast@xrmtoolbox.com . Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/ @ddlabar Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ @rappen Music: https://www.purple-planet.com...
Jan 26, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 19
In this episode, we spend time with Brandon Kelly from CloudSmith Consulting, who has a new open source extension for VS Code, to share with us. CDS for Code has the following features: - Manages Solution Assets - Editor For web Resources - Plugin Development Loop - Templating - Security - Code Generation Download the project here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CloudSmithConsulting.cds-for-code Or check out the source here: https://github.com/cloudsmithconsulting/cds-for-co...
Jan 25, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 18
In this episode, we invite Sara Lagerquist, MVP and vocal proponent of low code/no code solutions, to give us some of the top tools that she uses. In this episode Sara shares the following tools: Bulk Workflow Execution by Andy Popkin https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/AndyPopkin.BulkWorkflowExecution/ Attribute Manager by Daryl LaBar https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/DLaB.Xrm.AttributeManager/ Easy Translator by Tanguy Touzard https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/MsCrmTools.Translator/ FetchXML ...
Nov 27, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In this episode, we interview the Matt Barbour, the Principal Platform Architect – Common Data Services for Applications Platform at Microsoft at the Dynamics Community 2019 NA Summit. In this episode Matt talks through: The PowerApps Command line Utility Microsoft's Focus on Command line first Updates on the status of the Visual Studio Dev Tool Kit New features that have been added to the Data Configuration Migration Tool Changes to the CRM/CDS SDK that may break your logins The status of the ....
Nov 03, 2019•45 min•Season 1Ep. 16
In this episode, we interview the James Novak. James is the maintainer of a slew of winform controls designed for the Xrm Tool Box, as well as the Document Template Manager Plugin. Dealing with Impostor Syndrome when sharing your work with the world Newlywed life Lazy Developers How good code can be easily repurposed. The "I can make it more extendable rabbit hole". James's favorite tools James's future tool desires https://futurezconsulting.com/blog https://twitter.com/@crmdevjim https://github...
Sep 09, 2019•38 min•Season 1Ep. 15
In this episode of firsts, we have our first return guest, the Xrm Wizard himself Magnus Sørensen ( @XrmWizard ), and the first time having two guests as Jordi Montaña also joins us as we take a deep dive into automated testing of Xrm/CDS/D365 CE! Why use a mocking framework specifically tailored for Xrm The biggest reason to do automated testing with plugins/workflows How client side service requests testing fits in Deep dives into FakeXrmEasy, XrmMockup, and XrmUnitTest What are the difference...
Aug 17, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In this episode, we interview the Xrm Wizard himself, Magnus Sørensen ( @XrmWizard ) the keeper and maintainer of Delegate A/S's Open Source tools. How to register your plugins and plugin steps via fluent based code. How to include workflow and view state in your CRM solution Deployments Using Fiddler to do your client side dev work. Why using Typescript allows you to "Write it, and it just works" How to query Crm client side using a strongly typed querying methodology How to get all your develo...
Jul 21, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 13
In this episode, we interview Danish Naglekar ( @DanzMaverick ) the creator of the PCF-CustomControlBuilder. The features we want to be added How to get your tool "out there" Jonas does a Pull Request "On Air" Daryl mixes up the Guest with a breakfast food. https://twitter.com/ @DanzMaverick https://www.linkedin.com/in/danishnaglekar https://github.com/Danz-maveRICK/PCF-CustomControlBuilder Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Dar...
Jul 21, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In this episode, we interview Scott Durow ( @ScottDurow ) the creator of the Ribbon Workbench and Sparkle Xrm framework. The Birth of the Ribbon Workbench and it's architecture Smart Buttons The most common reason why something doesn't show in the Ribbon Why the Ribbon Workbench will die Why Scott got 200 support requests in a weekend All of Scott's knowledge is in the Sparkle Xrm Framework. Use it! What Microsoft could do to make Dev's lives easier Jonas is waiting for FetchXml to out maneuver ...
Jun 29, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 11
In this episode (brought to you by D365UG ), we interview Wael Hamze ( @WaelHamze ) the creator of multiple CDS/XRM CI frameworks and tools. Azure Devops Xaml vs PoweShell vs Yaml Managed vs unmanaged What's required for 100% automation of your ALM https://twitter.com/@WaelHamze https://www.linkedin.com/in/waelhamze/ https://waelhamze.wordpress.com/ https://github.com/WaelHamze/xrm-ci-framework https://github.com/WaelHamze/dyn365-ce-vsts-tasks https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=...
Jun 22, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In this episode (brought to you by D365UG ), we interview Clement Olivier (@Clement0livier stuffandtacos ) and Gus Gonzalez (@GusGonzalez2 elev8solutions.com ), the creators of the Business Process Flow Manager XrmToolBox. How bacon/pancakes and complaining gives birth to XTB plugins Gus pleads for someone to listen and create a tool for him. How long does it take to make an XTB plugin? The coolest animated gif of any XTB Plugin! XrmToolBox School ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0Pd0TO...
Jun 04, 2019•33 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this episode (brought to you by D365UG ), we interview Natraj Yegnaraman (@RajYRaman DreamingInCRM.com ), the creator of Level Up and multiple tools in the XrmToolBox. Topics discussed – Level Up - The best tool admins love to hate – Side loading Level Up in Firefox/Edge – Solution History (XTB Plugin) – Solution Installer (XTB Plugin) – Export To Excel (XTB Plugin) – Entity Image Uploader (XTB Plugin) – Recent Items Manager (XTB Plugin) – Lazy Developers – Natraj shuns Dynamics Got questions...
Apr 16, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this episode (brought to you by D365UG ), we interview Andy Popkin (@andypopkin), the creator of multiple tools in the XrmToolBox. Topics discussed – Bulk Delete Tool (XTB plugin) – Bulk Workflow Execution (XTB Plugin) – Record Counter (XTB Plugin) – Future XTB Plugin to convert user views to system views – The debt of onprem in online – Andy's tools + Gus Gonzalez's cojones = Death to multiple online instances – Developers love feedback Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? ...
Apr 04, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This episode was born from a GitHub issue posted by our guest Marc Schweigert from Microsoft, on potentially renaming the XrmToolBox to something that is more CDS PowerPlatform friendly. Topics discussed - Marc's career progression from developer to sales - Marc's favorite tools - How Microsoft's focus on open APIs allows for tools - Marc's perfect world and what we would do to it (Deep Thought quote by Jack Handy) Link to the GitHub issue that started it all: MscrmTools/XrmToolBox: Issue #833 L...
Mar 08, 2019•37 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this episode (brought to you by Mapltyics by Inogic , Daryl steps out of the host seat and into the role of guest to talk about his newest XrmToolBox Plugin, the Visual Studio Solution Accelerator. Topics discussed - Daryl is a quitter. - What is this plugin? - Setting up Visual Studio solutions for XRM Development - Daryl's Shunning of TLAs - Why the default Region in Visual Studio sucks Download the XrmToolBox from https://www.xrmtoolbox.com and install the Visual Studio Solutions Accelerat...
Feb 20, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Today On XrmToolCast, brought you by Mapltyics by Inogic , Daryl and Jonas talk to fellow MVP Jason Lattimer, diving into his background and his wildly successful RESTBuilder tool. Topics Discussed The CRMRESTBuilder ( https://github.com/jlattimer/CRMRESTBuilder ) CRMCodeEditor and Daryl's Confusion with a similar XrmToolBox tool ( https://github.com/jlattimer/CRMCodeEditor ) The pleathera of Workflow Utilities Jason has made for both Devs and Non-Devs ( https://github.com/jlattimer/CRM-DateTime...
Feb 07, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 4
This episode is brought to you by D365UG. Today on the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Jonas walk through what is involved in creating a plugin for the XrmToolBox. Topics discussed in this episode: Technologies you need to know The VisualStudio XTB Template PluginBase/PluginControlBase Async helper methods Setting up Debug Configuration XTB interfaces Daryl's Inability to memorize an e-mail address Developer Documentation URL: https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/documentation/for-developers/...
Jan 14, 2019•36 min•Season 1Ep. 3
This episode is brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic . Listener Seth T. Bacon asks what is Microsoft's position on third-party developed tools. To answer the question, Daryl and Jonas invited Matt Barbour, Principal Platform Architect – Common Data Services for Applications Platform (CAP) at Microsoft to answer the question: Controls and constraints at the api level Will Microsoft make community tools obsolete in the future? Will Microsoft offer open sourceable tools? How community-developed to...
Dec 18, 2018•23 min•Season 1Ep. 2
This is the first episode of our podcast dedicated to the XrmToolBox , the ultimate set of tools for Dynamics 365, with Business Applications MVP's Daryl Labar, Jonas Rapp, and Tanguy Touzard, the creator of the XrmToolBox. This episode is brought to you by D365UG/CRMUG . History of the XrmToolBox Daryl and Jonas' experience creating tools for the XrmToolBox Benefit to Microsoft partners of their employees contributing to the XrmToolBox How the XrmToolBox helps lazy developers How people use (or...
Nov 27, 2018•32 min•Season 1Ep. 1
