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 [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 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-code

and reach out to Brandon at

[email protected]

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 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 Builder by Jonas Rapp

  • http://fxb.xrmtoolbox.com/

• Related Records Analyzer by Jonas Rapp

  • https://jonasr.app/2018/06/rra-intro/

• User Security Manager by Nishant Rana and Prashant Maurya

  • https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/PKM.XRMToolBox.UserSecurityManager/

• View Layout Replicator by Tanguy Touzard 

  • https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/MsCrmTools.ViewLayoutReplicator/

• Shuffle Builder and Shuffle Runner by Jonas Rapp and Innofactor

  • https://jonasr.app/2017/04/devops-i/

https://twitter.com/lagerquistsara

https://saralagerquist.com/

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 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 .Net Core SDK

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-barbour-02702b1/

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 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.com/jamesnovak/xrmtb.XrmToolBox.Controls

https://github.com/jamesnovak/XrmDocumentTemplateManager

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 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 differences
  • How are they similar
  • Which one should you choose

https://twitter.com/@xrmwizard

https://github.com/delegateas/XrmMockup/wiki

https://twitter.com/jordimontana

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordimontana/

https://dynamicsvalue.com

https://github.com/jordimontana82/fake-xrm-easy

https://github.com/daryllabar/XrmUnitTest

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 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 developers "on the bus"?

https://twitter.com/@xrmwizard

http://delegateas.github.io/

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 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 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 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 SQL
• Scott defines his open source Ethos

https://twitter.com/@ScottDurow

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdurow/

https://www.youtube.com/scottdurow

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

https://www.develop1.net/public/rwb/ribbonworkbench.aspx

https://develop1.net/public/post/2017/01/15/Smart-Buttons-in-the-Ribbon-Workbench

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 (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=WaelHamze.xrm-ci-framework-build-tasks https://github.com/devkeydet/dyn365-ce-devops

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