In Episode 119 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott delve into the Power Apps Test Engine with Grant Archibald, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, highlighting the strategic importance of automated testing in enhancing application reliability and efficiency.

Some of the highlights:

• Grant’s Unit Testing Elevator Pitch
• The Boulder Testing Analogy
• Power Apps Test Studio vs Power Apps Test Engine
• PowerFx playground directly in the browser
• Web Assembly
• When will it be available?

Grant's Info:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantarchibald/
• X: https://x.com/garchibald

Links:

• Mastering Automated Testing in Power Platform: From Unit Tests to CI/CD Integration - YouTube
• Test Studio - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn
• Power Apps Test Engine :: PowerApps Test Engine
• Learning Playground :: PowerApps Test Engine
• Playwright vs Power Apps Test Engine :: PowerApps Test Engine
• Test Engine and Power Fx :: PowerApps Test Engine
• Ring Deployment Model :: PowerApps Test Engine
• Getting Started Business Roles :: PowerApps Test Engine
• Getting Started Architects :: PowerApps Test Engine
• Getting Started Technical Users :: PowerApps Test Engine
• Introducing the plan designer in Power Apps (preview) - Microsoft Power Platform Blog
• WebAssembly
• WebAssembly | MDN
• Grant-Archibald-MS/dotnetwasm

Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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Your hosts:

Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar  Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin  | @LinnZawWin

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Happy New Year from the XrmToolCast team! In this episode 118, Daryl and Scott sit down with Rick Wilson, former MVP and now a Microsoft employee, to discuss his innovative PCF calendar control. This versatile control works seamlessly with both Model-Driven and Canvas apps, offering greater customisation than the standard options available out-of-the-box.

Some of the highlights:

• Reverse Homework
• Pro Code Always be updating
• Differences in PCF for Model vs Canvas Apps
• Scott is a Mayan Calander User
• Loading data in Canvas vs Model
• AI Tool Aider
• GitHub Editor

Rick's Info:

• Blog: https://www.richardawilson.com 
• LinkedIn: rickawilson
• YouTube: @richarda.wilson3696
• Github: rwilson504

PCF Calendar Control:

• GitHub Repo - https://github.com/rwilson504/PCFControls
• PCF Gallery - https://pcf.gallery/calendar-control
• Intro Video - https://youtu.be/dBtqsAKt78c

Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

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Your hosts:

Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar  Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin  | @LinnZawWin

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

In Episode 117 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott talk to Microsoft MVP David Rivard about his newest tool, Plugin Identity Manager which is an XrmToolBox tool to create, update and assign managed identity records to Dataverse plugin assemblies. If you're unsure what managed plugin identities are, why you need them, or how they're used, this episode is a must-listen! And if you've already created one yourself, tune in to learn how the tool can simplify your workflow and make your life easier.

Some of the highlights:

• Scott lives in a place that is not an island
• Managed Identities
• David UIs all the Postman Calls
• Why credentials are bad
• Identity managed journey
  • Sign plugin with a certificate
  • This creates a thumbprint
  • This is what is used for federated credentials to authenticate to the Azure Resource
  • Create Managed Identities in Azure
  • Give the Identity Azure Roles to resources
  • Create a Managed Identity record in Dataverse and assign to a plugin
• Scott explains all the problems that exist
• Environment variables for Azure Key Vault secrets

David's Info:

• Blog: https://itmustbecode.com/ 
• LinkedIn: davidrivard
• Twitter: @david_rivard
• Bluesky: @drivard.bsky.social

Links:

• Blog Post: How to Secure a Dataverse Plug-in with Managed Identity using Plugin Identity Manager for XrmToolBox
• GitHub Repo: https://github.com/drivardxrm/Driv.XTB.PluginIdentityManager

Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

Your hosts:

Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar  Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin  | @LinnZawWin

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

In Episode 116 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott dive into Power Apps Tools with guests Leonardo and Rudimar. They explore the community-driven "clipboard" packed with YAML snippets, SVG-to-FX converters, Power Fx functions, icons, and more—all aimed at boosting canvas app development.

Some of the highlights:

• Capybaras
• Backstory of Power Apps Tools
• When your tools become your weekend projects
• Power of open source software
• Earliest show hzomework ever assigned
• Scott wants to be made into a Capybara
• Daryl discovers Electric vehicles

Leonardo's Info:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardorrusso
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Leo_Russo

Rudimar's Info:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rudimar
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@powerrudy

Links:

• Power Apps Tools: https://powerappstools.fly.dev
• Capybara: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara

Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

Your hosts:

Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar  Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin  | @LinnZawWin

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

In this episode, Daryl and Scott chat with Chris Piasecki, recaping the MS 2024 Power Platform Community Conference in Vegas.

Some of the highlights:

• Chris Freezes
• Southwest likes scaring Daryl into thinking he is late for his flight.
• Dad joke episode call back
• https://github.com/scottdurow/magical-mystery-tour

Chris's Info:

• Twitter - @ChrisPiasecki89
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-piasecki

Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow

Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin  | @LinnZawWin

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

In Episode 114 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott talk Microsoft MVP Ivan Ficko about his newest tool, Power Roles!

Some of the highlights:

• MCU
• Power Roles
  • Dynamics BC Origin
  • Sniffs Network Traffic, determining the rights required
  • Will it work in Canvas Apps?
• Scott
  • Sniffing anything in my book is great!"
  • "It doesn't suck, it sniffs.
• New Role editor and burning 8-bit trees
• Ivan recreates his blog from scratch

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: [email protected] 

Links:

• PCF Generator: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/generator-pcf
• Flow Execution History: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/FlowExecutionHistory
• Power BI Embedder: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/PowerBiEmbedder
• Fast Record Counter: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/FastRecordCounter
• In-App Notification Builder: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/InAppNotificationBuilder
• Advanced App Manager: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/AdvancedAppManager
• Marketing Custom Channel Manager: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/MarketingCustomChannelManager
• Power Roles https://bit.ly/power-roles  

Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

Your hosts:

Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar  Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin  | @LinnZawWin

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

In Episode 112 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott talk Microsoft MVP Michael Ochs about his newest toll the Power Platform CLIx and the latest updates to his Universal Search tool!

Some of the highlights:

• Earliest Episode for homework
• Power Platform CLIx
  • Wrapper around the PAC CLI
  • Unit Tests help get your mind in the flow
• Universal Search
  • Added ability to search entire Solution Zip, and Unzips Canvas Apps
  • Decompiles plugin libraries and searches the decompiled code
• What drives developers to just dive into code.
• Starting an ALM Practice

Mike's Info:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikefactorial/
• X Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeFactorial
• Blog: https://mikefactorial.com/blog/

Links:

• Power Platform CLIx: A New XrmToolBox Tool for Power Platform Command Line Functions – Mike!'s Blog (mikefactorial.com)
• Universal Search for Solution Source Files – Mike!'s Blog (mikefactorial.com

Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow

Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin  | @LinnZawWin

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

In Episode 111 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott talk to Anthony Sheehi, a Product Manager at Microsoft about the changes coming down the "pipe" for Power Platform Pipelines, Pipelines For All.

Some of the highlights:

• What Type of pipeline is Pipelines for all?
  • Custom Host
  • Platform Host
• Details as to the rights and ownership of importing
• Rollbacking solution
• Governing Multiple Pipelines
• The architecture of Pipelines
• Scott gives homework

Anthoy's Info:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonysheehi/

Links:

• Power Platform Pipelines for all: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/pipelines-for-all-public-preview-easily-set-up-pipelines-in-power-platform/

Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow

Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin  | @LinnZawWin

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

In Episode 110 of the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Scott talk to Ulrikke Akerbæk, a fellow BizApps MVP and Cohost of the Power Platform BOOST Podcast about her experiences working with Power Pages.

Some of the highlights:

• Encountering with one of the listeners at the Canadian Power Platform Summit
• Ulrikke's learning journey of Power Pages
• A tip from Daryl about setting all privileges of a table in the classic security role editor
• Learning tips and tricks through experience
• Power Pages is the most pro-code part of the platform
• Properly prompting Power Pages Co-pilot
• Power Pages Co-pilot failures
• Managing CSS - SASS
• Using VS Code for the Web
• Identify oneself as a low-code or pro developer
• European Power Platform Conference

Ulrikke's Info:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulrikke 
• X-Twitter: https://twitter.com/UlrikkeAkerbk
• Blog: https://ulrikke.akerbak.com 

Links:

• European Power Platform Conference: https://www.sharepointeurope.com/european-power-platform-conference 

Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode, or like a shout-out? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow

Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin  | @LinnZawWin

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

In this episode, Daryl and Scott talk to Andrew Vogel about his Microsoft Xrm Devops Data Tool 

Some of the highlights:

• A fully caffeinated Scott
• Microsoft.Xrm.DevOps.Data
• Configuration Data Migration Tool
• Package Deployer
• Extreme Programming
• Test Driven Development
• 100% code coverage
• Playwright
• RegX101

Andrew's Info and other links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewvogel7
• GitHub: https://github.com/abvogel 
• Microsoft.Xrm.Devops.Data repo: https://github.com/abvogel/Microsoft.Xrm.DevOps.Data 

Got questions? Have your own tool you’d like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Scott at [email protected]. Follow us on LinkedIn and @XrmToolCast for updates on future episodes.

Do you want to see us too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to view the last episodes. Don't forget to rate and leave a review for this show at Podchaser.

Your hosts: Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar | @ddlabar Scott Durow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow | @ScottDurow

Editor: Linn Zaw Win: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnzawwin  | @LinnZawWin

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com