In this episode, Daryl and Jonas talk to Mark Carrington, Chris Piasecki and Matt Beard about the XrmToolBox Basics. Some of the highlights: Why do we need to get back to the basics Connection List Managing Connections in XrmToolBox: https://youtu.be/mC5FR_LaY4w Different ways of connecting environments Set environment highlight colour Define browser and profile Why Tanguy couldn't join the show Change icon size in the tools list Order tools list by most used Contribute tools by providing a revi...
Nov 20, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 89
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to a repeat guest and fellow MVP, Andrew Butenko, about the new v2 of his ABDialogs. Some of the highlights: How to design for both Low-Coders and Pro-Coders Documentation vs video tutorial Scott wants to go to the museum Difficulties in implementing Lookup PowerFx in Dialogs? Andrew's Imposter Syndrome Supporting Ukraine Andrew's Info and other links: Twitter: @a33ik YouTube: http://youtube.com/AndrewButenko Blog: http://butenko.pro/blog/ GitHub: http://git...
Nov 06, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 88
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to Phil Cole, a long-time listener of XrmToolCast, about using the PowerFx open-source library in various ways. Some of the highlights: Daryl's #SummitNA experience Phil decides to use all the preview things! Jurassic Park - Can we, but should we? Scott subscribe to the RSS feed of PowerFX GitHub Homework assignment for Phil Scott's idea about using RPA to migrate reference data with the same GUID Daryl's worst calculated field ever Daryl learns to use the E...
Oct 23, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 87
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to Microsoft employee Manuela Pichler about the Power CAT CoE Starter Kit ( https://aka.ms/coestarterkit ). Some of the highlights: Scott returns from the Power Platform conference Dogs with separation anxiety CoE - Spreading the excellence Who should be using it? Manuela's Info and other links: Manuela Pichler - LinkedIn @ManuelaPichler_ Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at...
Oct 09, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 86
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to fellow MVP Dani Kahil about multiple cheat sheets that he prepared over the last 2 years. Some of the highlights: Scott talks about punts Daryl confesses to cheating in high school Cheatsheets Better late than never introduction by Daryl MS CRM 2013 Client API Cheat Sheet by Rami Mounla Daryl and Scoot give Dani homework What's a Trapezoid again? Dani's course The most geographically isolated Biz Apps MVP Dani's future ideas Handling our human mistakes De...
Sep 25, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Daryl and Scott interview Sid Gundavarapu and Jesse Parsons from Microsoft, and chat about the ESLint rules for Power Apps model-driven apps and Dynamics 365 CE. Some of the highlights: What is ESLint? What are ESLint rules for Power Apps and Dynamics 365? ESLint is like a grammar check for code Power Apps ESLint npm package vs Solution Checker Targeted audience for ESLint rules Security-focused ESLint rules ESLint auto-fix Daryl's Christmas wish Recommended approach for those who are not using ...
Sep 11, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 84
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to fellow MVP Raphaël Pothin, a user and consumer of Jupyter Notebook, about the Power Platform Notebook Templates. Some of the highlights: TMNT What is Jupyter Notebook Code and Markdown Cells in Jupyter Notebook Is VB still a thing Where/how Notebooks can be used Use case scenario to use Notebooks for Power Platform Raphaël's MVP journey Raphaël's upcoming activities Don't Accept the Defaults - Abel Wang https://www.bonfire.com/dont-accept-the-defaults-abe...
Aug 28, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 82
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to fellow MVP Neil Benson who is a host of his own podcast, Amazing Apps, about tools and suggestions for estimating projects. Some of the highlights: Estimating Business Applications Estimating in time sucks Neil's Favorite tool for estimating? His phone calculator app Neil wants Daryl to run 10km uphill, in the rain, over a bridge with holes... Managing Work Items/Sprints using Azure DevOps ( SpecMap, StoriesOnBoard ) Jira with precious user interface Esti...
Aug 14, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 83
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to fellow MVP Michael Ochs about the latest updates of the ALM Accelerator. Some of the highlights: Latest updates about ALM Accelerator What is Healthy ALM Using Solutions Everything is code Be able to deploy to a downstream environment at the push of a button What is the future of ALM Accelerator? Unopinionated ALM Accelerator Extensivity of ALM Accelerator Full support for plugins/PCF controls? The PAC CLI bug Mike's Info and other links: https://www.link...
Jul 31, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 81
In this episode, Daryl and Scott interview Kristine Kolodziejski, Gamer/Drummer/Piano girl, about the latest neumorphic UI design kits for Power Apps canvas apps. Some of the highlights: Reading release notes for 2022 Wave 2 Standing on the shoulders of giants Music is a part of Kristine's life Nails on the keyboard Skeuomorphism / Neumorphism UI trend Kristine tells her story Neumorphic UI Kit Tools for UI design and HTML Kristine's Info and other links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristine-kol...
Jul 19, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 80
In this episode, Daryl talks to fellow MVP Temmy Wahyu Raharjo about the Dependency Injection, and Developer Rabbit Holes/Perfectionism. Some of the highlights: What is Dependency Injection? How is it different from Inversion of Control ILMerge Divide Testing a plugin which calls an external service without testing the external service How to start learning .NET Core for the beginners Daryl #EarlyBoundForever Rabbit hole over-engineering More developer horror stories Temmy's MVP Journey Mental h...
Jul 03, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Daryl and Scott shared horror stories about things that did not go quite as planned and the pranks they have pulled on their colleagues. Some of the highlights: If you were an interviewer, would you hire someone who answers "I have never done anything wrong in my career" Battle scars of Daryl and Scott Two Concurrent Publish All actions could make the server hang in the early days of CRM online Daryl attached a debugger to the process on the on-prem server and everyone complained that the Dev in...
Jun 19, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Daryl and Scott interview Maciej Kornacki and chat about the new Managed Solution Bulk Remover tool as well as the Unmanaged Active Layer Bulk Remover tool. Some of the highlights: Hoodie vs Jumper Unmanaged Active Layer Bulk Remover Managed Solution Bulk Remover Uninstalling MS Marketing is horror stories Maciej let Power Virtual Agents answer some of the questions (Apologies for the robotic sound) Feature requests by the hosts as usual Future open-sourced Umbraco Portal tool Maciej's Info and ...
Jun 05, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Daryl and Scott interview Jonas Rapp, the other co-host of the XrmToolCast, and chat about his Early-bound experience and feature requests for the EarlyBound Entity Generator. Some of the highlights: Daryl makes himself a fool Daryl teaches Jonas about Benedict Arnold ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold ) Jonas dives into his Early-bound experience Deliver 100% of your obligations in 25% of your time Jonas tells Daryl what he needs to do with the EarlyBound Entity Generator If you do...
May 23, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Daryl and Scott interview Diana Birkelbach, PCF Lady, about the latest improvements for the Colorful Optionset PCF control. Some of the highlights: If it ain’t your computer, don’t touch the screen Using React and Fluent UI for PCF Control Diana's helpful hints for picking up react What is React-based virtual code component Advantages of Virtual Controls Size of files Visible Performance improvements Allows for Some Fluent UI controls to communicate across PCF controls What happens when MS updat...
May 08, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Daryl and Scott interview Mark Carrington, a 3rd-time repeat guest of the show, about the new features added in the latest version of SQL 4 CDS. Some of the highlights: Daryl is allergic to duck eggs Scott looks like a quail egg person Variables and For Loop Support in SQL 4 CDS Execution plan view SQL 4 CDS now provides an ADO connection Possible uses for it Naming things is one of the hardest things in Computer Science Where the TDS endpoint is still useful Current limitations with TDS endpoin...
Apr 24, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Daryl and Scott interview Casey Burke and Prabhat Pandey from Microsoft, and chat about the new command designer with Power Fx. Some of the highlights: Various Classic Games History of Commanding How it got pitched/approved Biggest problem Not interrupting customers Integrating with the Solution Model migration Managing the ALM process Integrating with PowerFx Microservices How it works When Ribbon Workbench is still required Do standard Devs write PowerFx? When it is going to be GA Daryl incorr...
Apr 10, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Daryl and Scott interview Carl Cookson, supposedly (Ex) Developer & fellow MVP, and chat about the new XrmToolBox Tool - BPF To Visio Builder. Some of the highlights: Daryl Read-off-the-people's-Twitter-profile LaBar Do former Devs need to keep up their Dev chops? Does someone need to be a good developer to be a good manager? Field games that the hosts and the guest are familiar with Other XrmToolBox tools that Carl built under the name of LinkeD365 Using documentation tools to capture a sna...
Mar 27, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Daryl and Scott interview Clément Olivier, fellow BizApps MVP, and chat about the new XrmToolBox Tool - PCF to BPF. Some of the highlights: Gardening Podcast PCF to BPF How Custom Controls are added to BPF Table FormXml Adding Choices field to Data Step of BPF Crashing the XrmToolBox Worldwide What Clément didn't test Virtual DOM for Fluent What are the bounds on a PCF control in the BPF Clément's Info and other links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clemolivier @Clement0livier Blog: https://stuffan...
Mar 13, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Daryl talks about his newest tool in his toolbelt, ZoomIt. A Windows utility from Sys Internals for drawing on your screen. Some of the highlights: Sorry, not many highlights... Just Daryl doing his thing! :) Links: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/zoomit Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at cast@xrmtoolbox.com . Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes. Do you...
Feb 27, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Daryl and Scott interview Mike Stall, Power Fx Architect at Microsoft, and chat about the Canvas Apps GitHub Integration. Some of the highlights: Was there any master plan behind canvas apps expressions to take over the whole platform? Daryl's "Managing the Low Code Portion of Complex Power Apps" session The humble beginning Extremely Experimental Git Collaboration How maniacal edits are being handled Git blame and naming is hard Will GitHub Integration come to model-driven apps? Noisy diffs and...
Feb 13, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Daryl and Scott interview Guido Preite, the repeat guest of the XrmTool Cast, and chat about the new PCF Gallery search and his latest tool, Dataverse Rest Builder. Some of the highlights: Word of the day "Esthete" How Dataverse Rest Builder fetches metadata Guido tells nerdy stories Process of publishing a new tool in XrmToolBox Maintaining energy on long projects Recursive programming is no joke New PCF.Gallery Search Guido did not author all controls on the PCF.Gallery (apart from one) Guido'...
Jan 30, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Daryl and Scott interview Jonas Rapp, the other co-host of the XrmToolCast, and chat about his latest tool, the XRM Tokens Runner. Some of the highlights: Scott and his own tissue brand Jonas's Health History of XRM Tokens Runner ToEntityReference with KeyAttributes How to ask a question to Jonas Understanding your Audience Jonas's Info and other links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen @rappen The tool doc: XRM Tokens Runner The code doc: XRM Tokens Session video from South Coast Summit Blog o...
Jan 17, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 67
This is a special thank you episode from Daryl where he thanks 10 individuals that have made a significant impact on the XrmToolCast. Thank you to all that you do and have done! Best wishes to 2022 for all of you! Tanguy Touzard - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanguytouzard/ Jonas Rapp - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/ Scott Durow - https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/ Linn Zaw Win - https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin/ Danish Naglekar - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danishnaglekar/ Guido ...
Jan 02, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 66
In this episode, Daryl and Scott speak with Heidi Neuhauser about Top 10 Tools to Help You Be A Super System Admin . 10-part blog series: Managing Business Settings Security Model Tools Global Search Table (Entity) Search Dynamics 365 App for Outlook UI Controls Model-driven Apps Field Mapping Business Rules XrmToolBox Tools Other topics: Christmas Decorations If something goes wrong, it's 90% probability that it's gonna be security Releasing different versions of tools for on-prem The strong ev...
Dec 20, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 65
In this episode, Daryl and Scott speak with Tricia Sinclair about Power Platform School ( https://powerplatformschool.com ) and Voice Channel for Dynamics 365 Customer Service. Other topics: Black people are under-represented in tech (4% of IT professionals in UK) Volunteering/Training/Mentoring Microsoft Quiz Team Working with Modern Workplace team to setup Voice Recognition Easy set up for trial and testing Phone system direct routing through Azure Communication Services (ACS) Infused AI Senti...
Dec 05, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 64
In this "Try Not to Laugh" episode, Daryl and Scott have a challenge with Amey Holden and Matt Collins-Jones by telling their best dad jokes to make the rest crack up. Amey's Info and other links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amey-holden @AmeyHolden https://www.ameyholden.com Matt's Info and other links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattcollins-jones @D365Geek https://www.d365geek.co.uk Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and...
Nov 21, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 63
In this non-technical/jargon-free episode, Daryl and Scott speak with Alison Mulligan about career tips and tricks such as how to get started in Dynamics & Power Platform, how to ask for a raise in a right way and how to change roles within a career. Other topics: Destined moment of three people with metal in their arm Alison's American Express/Excel/Access heritage and digital transformation stories Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life How to get started with a career in Mic...
Nov 07, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 62
In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk about their sessions and experiences at Summit NA 2021. This is the special episode that was recorded face-to-face at the Community News Desk room in the Community Summit North America venue. Other topics: Controversial opinion about laptop stickers Navigating COVID-19 Fusion teams Is It Worth The Time? comic by xkcd Daryl got distracted by a fly and his phone Official collective terminology for customer engagement apps Tips about snoozing email Differences ...
Oct 24, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Daryl and Scott interview Bram Colpaert, a good lazy developer based in Belgium, and chat about one of his tools, the Data Transporter. Other topics: Queen's English and George Doubinski's accent Fellow listeners from The UP Podcast Star Trek, Lieutenant Commander Data and transporter beam Better Connection Management in XrmToolBox over Microsoft Tools Scott spends his free time diving into Dataverse GUID generation Daryl's magic trick to entertain aliens in Toy Story Editor of XrmToolCast, Linn...
Oct 10, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 60
