XrmToolCast

In this episode (brought to you by D365UG), we interview Clement Olivier (@Clement0livier stuffandtacos) and Gus Gonzalez (@GusGonzalez2 elev8solutions.com), the creators of the Business Process Flow Manager XrmToolBox.

• How bacon/pancakes and complaining gives birth to XTB plugins
• Gus pleads for someone to listen and create a tool for him.
• How long does it take to make an XTB plugin?
• The coolest animated gif of any XTB Plugin!
• XrmToolBox School (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0Pd0TO9GnXhGdFwVRb1wfYRGuS4CVmcA)
• XrmToolBox Plugin Report (https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/report/)

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].

Download the XrmToolbox at https://www.xrmtoolbox.com and install the Business Process Flow Manager plugins from the plugin store!

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 Natraj Yegnaraman (@RajYRaman DreamingInCRM.com), the creator of Level Up and multiple tools in the XrmToolBox.

Topics discussed – Level Up - The best tool admins love to hate – Side loading Level Up in Firefox/Edge – Solution History (XTB Plugin) – Solution Installer (XTB Plugin) – Export To Excel (XTB Plugin) – Entity Image Uploader (XTB Plugin) – Recent Items Manager (XTB Plugin) – Lazy Developers – Natraj shuns Dynamics

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].

Download the Level Up from the Chrome Extensions Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/level-up-for-dynamics-crm/bjnkkhimoaclnddigpphpgkfgeggokam , Also download the XrmToolBox from https://www.xrmtoolbox.com and install Natraj's plugins from the plugin store!

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 Andy Popkin (@andypopkin), the creator of multiple tools in the XrmToolBox.

Topics discussed – Bulk Delete Tool (XTB plugin) – Bulk Workflow Execution (XTB Plugin) – Record Counter (XTB Plugin) – Future XTB Plugin to convert user views to system views – The debt of onprem in online – Andy's tools + Gus Gonzalez's cojones = Death to multiple online instances – Developers love feedback

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].

Download the XrmToolBox from https://www.xrmtoolbox.com and install Andy's plugins from the plugin store!

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

This episode was born from a GitHub issue posted by our guest Marc Schweigert from Microsoft, on potentially renaming the XrmToolBox to something that is more CDS PowerPlatform friendly.

Topics discussed - Marc's career progression from developer to sales - Marc's favorite tools - How Microsoft's focus on open APIs allows for tools - Marc's perfect world and what we would do to it (Deep Thought quote by Jack Handy)

Link to the GitHub issue that started it all: MscrmTools/XrmToolBox: Issue #833

Links:

• Marc Schweigert LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devkeydet/
• Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/
• Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/

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

In this episode (brought to you by Mapltyics by Inogic, Daryl steps out of the host seat and into the role of guest to talk about his newest XrmToolBox Plugin, the Visual Studio Solution Accelerator.

Topics discussed - Daryl is a quitter. - What is this plugin? - Setting up Visual Studio solutions for XRM Development - Daryl's Shunning of TLAs - Why the default Region in Visual Studio sucks

Download the XrmToolBox from https://www.xrmtoolbox.com and install the Visual Studio Solutions Accelerator from the plugin store!

Your hosts:

• Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/
• Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/

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

Today On XrmToolCast, brought you by Mapltyics by Inogic, Daryl and Jonas talk to fellow MVP Jason Lattimer, diving into his background and his wildly successful RESTBuilder tool.

Topics Discussed

• The CRMRESTBuilder (https://github.com/jlattimer/CRMRESTBuilder)
• CRMCodeEditor and Daryl's Confusion with a similar XrmToolBox tool (https://github.com/jlattimer/CRMCodeEditor)
• The pleathera of Workflow Utilities Jason has made for both Devs and Non-Devs (https://github.com/jlattimer/CRM-DateTime-Workflow-Utilities, https://github.com/jlattimer/CRM-String-Workflow-Utilities, https://github.com/jlattimer/CRM-Numeric-Workflow-Utilities, https://github.com/jlattimer/CRM-Note-Workflow-Utilities, https://github.com/jlattimer/CRM-Email-Workflow-Utilities)
• Logging assistance for AppInsights in D365 using both JS (https://github.com/jlattimer/D365AppInsights.Js) and C# (https://github.com/jlattimer/D365AppInsights) and Jason's inability to remember it, even though he just spoke on it 3 days ago
• Deprecation of the D365DeveloperExtensions? (https://github.com/jlattimer/D365DeveloperExtensions)

Got feedback or suggestions for a future episode? Email [email protected].

This episode is a production of Dynamic Podcasts LLC. Subscribe to the CRM Audio network of podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Player.FM, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher, or YouTube. You can also listen via our app on iOS or Android.

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

This episode is brought to you by D365UG.

Today on the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Jonas walk through what is involved in creating a plugin for the XrmToolBox.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Technologies you need to know
• The VisualStudio XTB Template
• PluginBase/PluginControlBase
• Async helper methods
• Setting up Debug Configuration
• XTB interfaces
• Daryl's Inability to memorize an e-mail address

Developer Documentation URL: https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/documentation/for-developers/

This episode is brought to you by Maplytics by Inogic.

Listener Seth T. Bacon asks what is Microsoft's position on third-party developed tools. To answer the question, Daryl and Jonas invited Matt Barbour, Principal Platform Architect – Common Data Services for Applications Platform (CAP) at Microsoft to answer the question:

• Controls and constraints at the api level
• Will Microsoft make community tools obsolete in the future?
• Will Microsoft offer open sourceable tools?
• How community-developed tools affect Microsoft roadmap.
• Does Microsoft monitor third-party tools?
• The most popular tools within Microsoft
• Early-bound vs. late-bound debate

Got feedback or suggestions for a future episode? Email [email protected].

This episode is a production of Dynamic Podcasts LLC. Subscribe to the CRM Audio network of podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Player.FM, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher, or YouTube. You can also listen via our app on iOSor Android.

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

This is the first episode of our podcast dedicated to the XrmToolBox, the ultimate set of tools for Dynamics 365, with Business Applications MVP's Daryl Labar, Jonas Rapp, and Tanguy Touzard, the creator of the XrmToolBox. This episode is brought to you by D365UG/CRMUG.

• History of the XrmToolBox
• Daryl and Jonas' experience creating tools for the XrmToolBox
• Benefit to Microsoft partners of their employees contributing to the XrmToolBox
• How the XrmToolBox helps lazy developers
• How people use (or misuse) the tools
• The XrmToolBox community
• Technical debt
• Future of the XrmToolBox

Links:

• XrmToolBox: https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/
• Tanguy Touzard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanguytouzard/
• Daryl LaBar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryllabar/
• Jonas Rapp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rappen/

Got feedback or suggestions for a future episode? Email [email protected].

This episode is a production of Dynamic Podcasts LLC. Subscribe to the CRM Audio network of podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Player.FM, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher, or YouTube. You can also listen via our app on iOS or Android.

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