XrmToolCast

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
• Early Bound Generator
• Attribute Manager
• WebResource Manager
• Visual Studio Solution Accelerator
• Script Finder/Form Libraries Manager
• LinqPad
• Canvas App Packager
• Ditto

Jonas's Tools

• Plugin Trace Viewer for XrmToolBox
• Plugin Registration for XrmToolBox
• CodeMaid for Visual Studio
• FetchXML Builder for XrmToolBox
• StackOverflow
• Metadata Browser for XrmToolBox
• Power Platform Build Tools for Azure DevOps
• Latebound Constants Generator for XrmToolBox
• Plugin Auto Deployer for XrmToolBox
• Canvas Code Reuse for XrmToolBox

Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at [email protected].

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

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

David's Links

• Blog - https://blog.davidyack.com/
• Twitter - @DavidYack
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrdave/
• 365.training
• Cds.Tools
• Colorado Technology Consultants

Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at [email protected].

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

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://github.com/MarkMpn/Sql4Cds
• Twitter - @MarkMpn
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-carrington-1499a010/
• Work https://www.data-8.co.uk/ https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?search=data8&page=1

Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at [email protected].

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

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: [email protected]

Ivan's Tools

• PCF Generator: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/generator-pcf
• Power BI Embedder: https://github.com/DynamicsNinja/PowerBiEmbedder

Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at [email protected].

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

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.youtube.com/scottdurow

http://www.sparklexrm.com/s/default.html

Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at [email protected].

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

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/scottdurow/

https://www.youtube.com/scottdurow

http://www.sparklexrm.com/s/default.html

Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at [email protected].

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

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 to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at [email protected].

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

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/

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Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at [email protected].

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

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

Collections Cookbook: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Community-App-Samples/Collections-Cookbook-50-Visual-Examples-amp-Code/td-p/437594

Power Platform Forums: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/

Matt Devaney: https://twitter.com/mattbdevaney

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Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at [email protected].

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

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?

UML Document Generator: https://jonasr.app/UML PlantUML: https://plantuml.com/ VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jebbs.plantuml

Reece Campbell: https://ramblingreece.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/ramblingreece https://www.linkedin.com/in/reececampbell/

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Got questions? Have your own tool you'd like to share? Have a suggestion for a future episode? Contact Daryl and Jonas at [email protected].

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