Daryl and Scott interview Matt Beard, fellow MVP and a data nerd, and chat about his newest tool, the Dataverse Format Changer. Other topics: Beards and Mr. Beard Matt reacts to the worst schema names What use case is the JSON format? Dataverse for Teams leads the way Data Validation Tool Connector Gallery Exclusive announcement of London user group meeting Data8 Ltd , the data quality company Matt’s Dad Joke Matt's Info and other links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbeard7 @mattybeard https:/...
Sep 26, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Daryl and Scott hang out with Jonas Rapp, the other co-host of the XrmToolCast, and have a fireside chat without talking about any technical topic or tools and stuff. Some of the highlights: Jonas has started doing some coding Trying to remember that dang shortcut, having to resort to the menus Remembering his tool names? Jonas will be speaking at the South Coast Summit Encouraging everyone to share their story Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future...
Sep 12, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Daryl and Scott interview Danish Naglekar, fellow MVP and a previous guest, and chat about his newest tool, the Dataverse DevTools for VsCode. Other topics: Building VsCode Extensions The PCF Builder Bearer Tokens Danish's Info and other links: https://twitter.com/ @DanzMaverick https://www.linkedin.com/in/danishnaglekar https://github.com/Danz-maveRICK/PCF-CustomControlBuilder https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=danish-naglekar.dataverse-devtools Got questions? Have your own too...
Aug 29, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Daryl and Scott interview Daniel Cai, founder of KingswaySoft and a former MVP. We talk through the history of the KingswaySoft SSIS adapter as well as some of the improvements made along the way. Other topics: Scott hates mosquitos almost as much as Daryl hates rope swings Free shirts are the best shirts Daniel's trigger statements SOAP vs WebApi Tables vs Entities Daniel's Info and other links: Company: KingswaySoft LinkedIn: DanielCai Twitter: @DanielCai Got questions? Have your own tool you’...
Aug 15, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 56
With Scott being on vacation Mike Ochs was nice enough to fill in the co-host seat as we dive into the Albanian Early Bound Tool for the XrmToolBox with Betim Beja. Betim is a developer based in Albanian, who talks about his tools as well as his home country. Betim's Info and other links: Blog: https://xrm.al/ LinkedIn: BetimBeja Twitter: @betimbeja GitHub: Albanian-xrm Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@...
Aug 01, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 55
We've challenged David Rivard in episode 41 to create a tool for Managing Custom APIs . Not only did he accept that challenge and created the Dataverse Custom API Manager , he has also extended it to create another one, the Dataverse Catalog Manager , both of which we dive into on this show. David's Info and other links: Blog: https://itmustbecode.com/ LinkedIn: davidrivard Twitter: @david_rivard Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Conta...
Jul 18, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 54
In this episode we talk with Megan V. Walker about her experience with Portals. Megan is an outstanding example of a self described citizen developer, delivering MS Portals with excellence. Other topics: Megan confesses her love of CSS, Daryl admits his disdain Scott pictures a Where's Waldo, Daryl Edition Megan admits to struggling with both Imposter Syndrome, and self pride. Daryl and Megan talk about their brothers Megan's portal Christmas wish Links: Franco Musso - Franco Musso – Dynamics 36...
Jul 04, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 53
In this episode, we talk to Ben Vollmer, former Global Director for Field Service, about his involvement in the bringing down CRM Online for the entire world. It's a true blast from the past as most of it was before Daryl even logged into CRM online, and so long that Scott has forgotten most of it. Other topics: When CRM required XBOX Where has all of Daryl's code gone? Ben's interesting interpretation of bug free software Little Bobby Tables ( https://xkcd.com/327/ ) Ben's Links Twitter - @BenV...
Jun 20, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 52
In this episode, we talk to long time MVP Andrew Butenko who is the creator of multiple extremely useful PCF controls (The most recent being a Clippy PCF control, how awesome is that, Clippy!) We announce that we will be running a contest for the best listener submitted questions, so submit yours today! Andrew's Links Twitter: @a33ik YouTube: http://youtube.com/AndrewButenko Blog: http://butenko.pro/blog/ GitHub: http://github.com/AndrewButenko Clippy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3vzKKBEcvM...
Jun 06, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 51
In this episode, we talk to the current maintainer of the Plugin Registration Tool for the XrmToolBox. We talk through the history of the tool and what the future may hold for it as well as: Microsoft's announcement of being able to register additional DLLs DLL Hell The Auto Deployer Tool "War" Stories Imran's Links Twitter: @imranakram365 Email: Imran@Biznamics.com LinkedIn: Imranakram1 Github: ImranAkram Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future epis...
May 23, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 50
In this episode, we talk to brand new baby MVP Mark Carrington, creator of the SQL 4 CDS XTB tool, about his new improvements. Scott is Canadian, Eh? SQL 4 CDS Safe Guards and Query Optimization Mark's Links Blog - https://markcarrington.dev/ SQL 4 CDS https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/MarkMpn.SQL4CDS/ https://markcarrington.dev/sql-4-cds/ https://github.com/MarkMpn/Sql4Cds Twitter - @MarkMpn LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-carrington-1499a010/ Work https://www.data-8.co.uk/ https:/...
May 09, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 49
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk with long time fellow MVP, Guido Preite. Guido is the caretaker of the PCF Gallery as well as a the creator of the Dependent Option Set Manager. Other topics discussed: Scott is wearing pants StackOverflow rivalries never die Guido's former newsletter You need to do something until you like it Guido's name change refusal Guido's info and other links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/crmanswers LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guidopreite/ Blog: https://www....
Apr 25, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 48
In this episode, Daryl announces Scott as the new co-host, and he, as well as guest Benedikt Bergmann, teach Daryl how to transition to managed solutions. There is also a short clip from Jonas! The following are discussed: Managed Solutions Aren't Unmanaged Keep it Simple One Solution to Rule them All Some interesting ALM options Benedikt's info and other links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BergmannBene LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benedikt-bergmann/ Blog: https://benediktbergmann.eu Em...
Apr 11, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 47
In this episode, Daryl interviews James Novak. James is the maintainer of a slew of WinForm controls designed for the XrmToolBox, as well as the Document Template Manager Plugin. This is a dev heavy episode where the following topics are discussed: Shared Projects Source Only Nuget Files Sharing code in XrmToolBox Projects ILMerge/ILRepack Pitfalls we ran into XrmToolBox.com ratings improvement CodeNow James's Info and other links: Blog: https://futurezconsulting.com/blog LinkedIn: JamesNovak Tw...
Mar 28, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Linn Zaw Win shares his journey of attempting to document every single tool in the Power Platform universe, focusing first on the tools in the XrmToolBox. Daryl also gives an update on Jonas. Linn shares: Link to tools documented: https://linnzawwin.blogspot.com/p/tools.html Tools that surprised him The steps he follows to document the tools. Environment Comparer - https://linnzawwin.blogspot.com/p/nenvironmentcomparer.html CDS Data Migrator tool https://linnzawwin.blogspot.com/p/cds-data-migrat...
Mar 14, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 45
It has been a difficult week this week on the XrmToolCast with Jonas suffering a stroke. Daryl has invited some of Jonas' fellow co-workers and MVPs to talk about what happened, how Jonas is doing now, and how we, the community, can support him. Consider Donating to Jonas via http://fetchxmlbuilder.com/donate 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...
Feb 26, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Jonas and Daryl have a friendly talk between themselves, walking through all the new tools they've recently released. There may also be some Dad jokes in the episode, so make sure listen all the way to the end. Tools covered: Custom Action Tester Custom API Tester XrmToolBox Integration Tester Portal Entity Permission Manager Outlook Timesheet Calculator 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 ....
Feb 14, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Mike Stall joins us to talk about the work that Microsoft has just publicly released for Canvas Apps in the form of the Power Apps Source File Pack and Unpack Utility. Topics Covered: What are the end design goals. YAML, Why? Checkout the blog post here or visit the GitHub page here Mike's Info: LinkedIn: MikeStall Blog: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/jmstall/ Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at...
Jan 31, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Dataverse has had custom actions for some time now, and now, a similar new tool is available to Dataverse developer, Custom APIs. We've brought David Rivard on to not only help define what they are, but to talk about his new Dataverse Custom API collection . Other topics covered: What's the difference between Custom APIs and Custom Actions? What are the current hang-ups with Custom APIs, and what does Jonas want it to be? Why APIs are helpful for ISVs Jonas and David start collaborating on futur...
Jan 17, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 41
High quality blogs are always a helpful, and in this episode we speak to the managing editor of Dynamics Chronicles, Lloyd Sebag. It started as a conversation into the XTB tools documented on the site, but dived into much much more! Check out Dynamics Chronicles website, and the team that brings it to life: Stéphan Drouard Danny Rodrigues Alves Amaury Veron Mattias Liloia Lorenz Prandini Fabian Kalchofner Matt's Info and other links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloyd-sebag/ Twitter: @D...
Jan 03, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Brand new baby MVP Matt Collins-Jones talks about his top 4 tools for creating Power Automate Flows, and the tools that we wish existed. Be sure to check out Matt's YouTube channel! Lot's of great content! Tools Discussed: FetchXML Builder - https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/Cinteros.Xrm.FetchXmlBuilder/ Level Up - Level Up Chrome/Edge Store Metadata Browser - https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/MsCrmTools.MetadataBrowser/ Flow to Visio - https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/LinkeD365.FlowToVisio/...
Dec 13, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Fellow MVP Neil Benson needed some help on a project and decided to use a lifeline and called Daryl and Jonas to ask what tools to use to document a system for a technical assessment. We decided to record the phone call for all to enjoy. Be sure to check out Neil's "Pimp My LinkedIn Profile" YouTube series! Tools Discussed: SnapShot! For Dynamics 365 - https://www.xrmcoaches.com/snapshot/ Plugin Registration Tool - https://github.com/Innofactor/PluginRegistration Attribute Usage Inspector - http...
Nov 29, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Fellow MVP Amey Holden decides to turn the tables and interview us! Be sure to check out Amey's "Pimp My LinkedIn Profile" YouTube series! Topics Discussed: What was our first tool? 5318008 on our calculators What's are favorite tools we didn't create? 3d Dancing babies in PowerPoint: https://www.ameyholden.com/articles/i-didnt-know-powerpoint-could-do-that Amey's Info and other links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amey-holden/ Twitter: @AmeyHolden Pimp My LinkedIn Profile: Watch Here , ...
Nov 15, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Repeat guest Marc Schweigert from Microsoft talks about the (almost released) Power Platform ALM Starter Kit, a tool to help manage and solve all your Power Platform ALM woes! Topics Discussed: Center of Excellence (COE) Starter Kit Storing Theme data in CDS Issues with naming an advanced tool without making the non-advanced tool sound dumb. ALM App-ception, the Chicken and the Egg problem for tools Marc's Info and other links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devkeydet/ Twitter: @devkeydet...
Nov 01, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 36
In this episode we continue our talk with the hosts of The UP Podcast, Lisa Crosbie and Megan V. Walker. Topics in this episode: Megan succumbs to Jonas's date formatting peer pressure. Jonas shoot's down Lisa's Australian tool ideas Jonas enjoys listening about dresses while running Lisa learns about the Iconnator and View Layout Replicator. Daryl can't keep guests and listeners straight The UP Podcast: https://theuppodcast.com/ Lisa Crosbie's Info: Blog: https://lisacrosbie.com/ LinkedIn: http...
Oct 18, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 35
In this episode we talk with the hosts of The UP Podcast, Lisa Crosbie and Megan V. Walker talking about how their introduction to tools for the power platform as well. Other topics: Lisa Crosbie explains how she annoyed her company IT department Jonas accuses Lisa of Being the Power Platform Jesus Megan talks about her Eureka moment with tools in the XTB Jonas learns about the Auto-Number Manager Daryl describes the Cardinal Rule for developers for naming things The UP Podcast: https://theuppod...
Oct 04, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 34
In this episode we interview Carl Cookson, a creator of 3 XrmToolBox Tools. We dive into each tool and why you should be using them. ERD Visio Builder - https://github.com/LinkeD365/ERDVisioBuilder Org Settings - https://github.com/LinkeD365/OrgSettings Mockaroo Data Munger - https://github.com/LinkeD365/MockarooDataMunger Carl Cookson's Info: Blog: linkeD365.blog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlcookson/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LinkeD365 Got questions? Have your own tool you’d lik...
Sep 20, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 33
In this episode we interview MVP Hardit Bhatia to talk about his brand new tool, "Power Apps Formula Reference". We dive into the app, why it was created, how it's structured, and how it's intended to be used. We also go off topic in few areas: Never let Joel Lindstrom introduce himself first Jonas wants more responsive functionality Daryl and the rest of Americans have it easy Logical names fore the win! Hardit's Info: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harditbhatia/ Twitter: https://twitter...
Sep 06, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 32
We've invited Julia Simpson, an F&O consultant new to the CRM/CDS world to gain insights on what it's like to be new to the CRM/CDS community, and the tools found within. In this episode: Julia describes her first tool experience in the XrmToolBox. Julia describes her experience with the CRM/CDS community. Daryl still can't introduce a guess properly. Jonas is accused of bleeding on his icons. https://www.linkedin.com/in/Juliaj87/ https://twitter.com/Juliaj87 Got questions? Have your own too...
Aug 23, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 31
In this episode we interview MVPs Gus Gonzalez and Nicholas Hayduk, to talk about their new tool, Power Text ! We also discus: How 5 year MVPs have been MVPs for nearly a decade! Gus's skill at getting others to do his dev dirty work. Nick's lack of sales skills. Jonas shared an Fetch Xml Builder update! Nick's Info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholashayduk/ https://twitter.com/engineered_code https://www.youtube.com/c/EngineeredCode https://www.engineeredcode.com/blog Gus's Info: https://www....
Aug 09, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 30
